Scout Archive

I hope someone can answer this question for me

Why do you lose your skill points for a skill if the person teaching u does not have all 4 skills?

For example, tonite i finally earned all points to advance to lvl 3 Scouting.

The guy who "taught" me did not have level3 Hunting. After the transfer i went to my skill window and found that all my points in Hunting 2 had disappeared( the skill he did not have to teach me). Now i have to go out and earn another 10,000 points to advance.

Why did/does this happen? Is it a bug or part of the game?

Should i always ask a person who wants to teach to verify that he has all 4 skills before we proceed?

Thanks for the info in advance

BTW: I want to thank SOE and DeltaX... for all the work they put into this. Ya'll are great in my books and despite the naysayers this game rocks!

Kalan-Nor

The Scout skills Exploration and Hunting require the same type of xp to advance. Therefore once you're taught one of the skills, you've already spent the points on the other skill.

"The Scout skills Exploration and Hunting require the same type of xp to advance. Therefore once you're taught one of the skills, you've already spent the points on the other skill. "

ack...that didn't come out right...

*Therefore, once you're taught one of the skills, you 've used up the points needed for the other skillto advance.

Okay Zero i think i understand but perhaps this should be brought before the developers as well

What's the use of getting all your xp in four skill categories when your only going to recieve threee advancements and be forced to go out and advance in one skill again?? I don't get it.

Acutally Scout is one of the nicer professions this way. For scout you need "scout xp" for 2 of the branches (hunting and explr), but in Artisan you need "crafting xp" for THREE of the lines (engineering, domestic arts, business), and I believe Medicneed "medical xp" for three branches as well.It is just the way the game works.

- Paks

I had that same thing happen and at first I thought it was a bug before I remembered that the two boxes pull from the same pool of points.

I personally don't like the way it's set up, either.

btw you meant lost xp points, not skill points, losing skill points would really hurt eh

Yep, they said it. 2 of the scout skills requires Scout xp. If you click and select the Exploration or hunting skill you need, it will tell you on the bottom of Skills window, just how much of <what type> of xp you need for it, and how much you have. I had the same thing happen to me first time.

Things like TK required unarmed for 3 of their skills and pistoleer and smuggler require Pistal Weapon xp for 3 skills. Compared to some of the advanced professions it's not so bad.