Artisan Archive
Thread: Surrendering skills
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Vinjar
Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:49 pm
#28
OK, I found a previous thread. Apparently I can surrender all my SP and the city would remain as is. I couldn't change anything, but that hardly matters as the city is good as is. I tend to agree with Chibi, this is likely in place for novice politicians taking over larger cities.
Cigaran
Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:02 pm
#29
menyou wrote:
I don't believe for 1s the placing of City buildings then surrendoring will EVER be considered an exploit. There is a simple reason for this and that is the case of a complete novice polition taking over a city.
But droping the Novice box and still being mayor is a bit off. Now, if they let it go and the old mayor nolonger got the votes, this would solve the AWAL mayor issues...
StumanKadir
Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:56 am
#30
You can drop Novice Politician completely and it will have no effect aside from you loosing your Mayoral Powers (/grantzoningrights basically).
You can always pick it up again, and until they fix the profession, I'd completely ignore anyone who says that it's not fair on other Mayors or aspiring Mayors or Mayors who wear capes and cod-pieces.
I have dropped and picked up Novice Politician that many times in my career as Mayor I have lost count. I generally let everyone know in town what I am doing and to date not one person has said "oh, can you please keep the skills".
To me, if your city has everything that it could possible want, and you have the right mix of trainers on the ground, and your citizens are a bunch of happy chappies, thenPolitician is just a bunch of wasted skill points waiting to be better used 
Folks will disagree with this of course as is their right, call out stupid names like exploiter, etc, but the game allows us to do this and the devs have yet to say "thou shalt not drop politician whilst being Mayor".
Chibi-Bar
Wed Aug 04, 2004 11:25 am
#31
I have to agree dropping the novice would be a bit much (but also extra coding to check and such would be a nightmare hehe)
personally most usually keep enough to swap trainers.. and that is about it
SeismicEdge
Fri Aug 06, 2004 8:23 am
#32
StoneRook1 wrote:
I would be very careful with this.
as in, not doing it.
Sure, you can do it now, drop skills and still have the benifits of the what you had.
but look at all the talk about people going up merchant, getting their vendors, then dropping the skills, keeping the vendors.
The devs are thinking this is an exploit and are making moves to correct it.
they would perhaps see this as in the same light.
This is probably a good concern, but if they were to consider this an exploit, how about when a novice politician wins the election? It will take her a while to make Master Politician, and if they consider dropping skills an exploit and set up the game to punish those who do, imagine what will happen to the city when the young politician wins the seat.
Tirec
Wed Sep 22, 2004 7:05 am
#33
Am i able to surrender the Force Sensitive Skills:
a) totally;
b) or swap them about (e.g get rid of one line of FS Skills and replace with a different tree)
Many thanks
Obetnica
Wed Sep 22, 2004 7:54 am
#34
You can't at the moment, you need 6 skill lines to be force sensitive.
There is a player there is trying to see what happens if you pick up a skill line more so you have 7 and then see if you can surrender down to 6 again.
WarrantOfficer1Canon
Mon Nov 01, 2004 8:47 pm
#36
Question? Say for instance I am a Master Marksman, can i surrender all skills in the below boxes and still gain all my knowledge and skills or do I lose them? Not exactly sure how this works. Can anybody please answer this for me.
Indyguy162
Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:34 pm
#37
When u surrender a skill, u lose the points for the skill, all mods u got from the skill, and all skills asscociated with it, but get your skill points back.
WarrantOfficer1Canon wrote:
Question? Say for instance I am a Master Marksman, can i surrender all skills in the below boxes and still gain all my knowledge and skills or do I lose them? Not exactly sure how this works. Can anybody please answer this for me.
DiLune
Mon Nov 01, 2004 10:36 pm
#38
You also have to surrender your highest SP in a line first. So, if you are a master marksman you cannot surrender any marksman skills until you have surrendered Master. Then you have to surrender the Tier IV, III, etc.
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