Skills and professions

Points and levels

A skill is a number of points from 0 to 1,000,000. The skill level follows from the points and has a fractional part. The player sees it with two decimal places.

Points never decrease. There is no cap on the total of skills: a player can develop all of them, the only limit is time.

Professions

A profession is a weighted average of several skills. The weights of one profession add up to 1. A skill can belong to many professions, including ones from another domain.

A profession does two things:

• Effectiveness: craft success chance, taming chance and domain effects (criticals, yields, loot rarity).
• Learning: the higher the profession relative to the target level, the harder it is to gain. Weak targets stop teaching.

Gain algorithm

Every action has a list of skills it can raise, and for each of them a weight, a base chance and base points. After the action is performed, for each skill on the list separately:

1. Frequency limit. If this skill was rolled for this player less than 0.5 s ago, we skip it.
2. Difficulty d. Calculated from the target level and the level of the profession assigned to the action (section "Target difficulty"). If d < 0.25, the skill does not grow.
3. First roll: does it grow. The chance decreases with the number of points the player already has in this skill.
4. Second roll: by how much. The maximum gain decreases exponentially with points. The gain is drawn uniformly from the range between half of the maximum and the maximum.
5. Random rounding. The fractional part turns into an extra point with a probability equal to that part (e.g. 3.3 gives 4 with a 30% chance). The average gain does not change, and a skill with a small weight gets proportionally less, not always 1 point.
6. Pet bonus. A pet with a skill-boosting ability multiplies the rolled points for its domain, with the same random rounding.

Parameters

What the player sees

After a gain, the action bar shows the skills that grew, e.g. +0.0120 Swords (12.34): how much level was gained and the current level. The message appears at most once every 2 s. Progress is shared across all servers of the network.

Target difficulty

The coefficient d compares the target level (of a mob or blueprint) with the player's profession level. A target equal to the profession gives d = 1. A stronger target teaches faster, a weaker one slower, and one 15 or more levels weaker not at all. Resources (ores, wood) have no level and always give d = 1.

Rate of gain

A skill with weight 1, base chance 30% and base points 120, target at the profession's level (d = 1). The "actions per level" column is the average number of repetitions needed to gain one level.

A skill with weight 0.3 has the same chance but a gain three times smaller, so it grows three times slower. A target stronger than the profession (d up to 2) raises the chance, but not above 30%.

Play time to reach a level

One skill, weight 1, d = 1, 20 qualifying actions per minute, average rate.

Actions

An action counts only if it has a real effect. Farm mobs never teach. Below are all actions with set weights.

Hits with an energy weapon (Pistols, Rifles) as well as magic and healing have their own actions and their own professions: Energy weapons and Magic and mana.

Crafting from blueprints

Every attempt at a crafting station rolls skill gains according to the blueprint category (the "Craft attempt" actions above). The target level is the blueprint level, and difficulty is calculated from the profession written on the blueprint. Success chance, product quality, blueprint quality and the blueprint list: Blueprints and crafting.

Taming

A wild mob that has its own pet is tamed with bait. The bait is consumed on every attempt. The chance depends on the Trainer profession and the mob level.

Every attempt, successful or not, rolls a gain for Taming and Care (the "Taming attempt" action).

All skills

For each skill: which actions raise it and with what weight, and which professions it counts toward. A skill without set weights has a described source it is meant to grow from.

Profession list

Skill weights in each profession. Combat professions come in pairs: one is responsible for hitting (accuracy, criticals), the other for damage.

To be decided

• Taming bait has the Material category, so crafting it raises Cooking and Herbalism, and difficulty is calculated from the Trainer profession. To decide: a separate category with Taming and Care.
• A failed craft attempt also raises skills. To decide whether the gain should happen only after success.
• Weights for the remaining actions: axe, spear, crossbow, magic, healing, armor and tools, carpentry, potions, enchanting, runes, farming, plant gathering, fishing, taming outside the attempt, trade and building have only a described source.
• Attributes (Strength, Dexterity, Endurance, Intelligence) are meant to grow incidentally during actions through a separate, small roll. Rules not yet set.
• Resource levels: until ores and wood have levels, resource actions always have d = 1.