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Originally Posted by KP708
So I guess what I'm saying here is could someone summarise the tentative theories which you're hoping to prove/disprove with the data.
I'm keen to see the outcome of this exercise - a fascinating project
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Hi KP,
The objective is, as you said, to find the function that maps a number of skill levels to the tt value of a chip holding these skills.
The immediate application of this function would be to develop a calculator to know how much valuable are the skills in your avatar. There is one at the moment in
www.entropiatools.com, which is excellent, but unfortunately it is outdated, since the function was changed in VU 8.9 (i think) and it has not been updated with the new one.
Another useful appliaction would be to know how much would it cost to chip in (and which skills) to reach a certain level in a pro standing, so you can unlock a certain skill. And calculate the cheapest way to do it, of course. (I'm working on this right now... may have something ready soon...)
The function is pretty clear up to a certain level 6-7k, but for higher levels is quite unknown yet. Actually we don't have a clue (well, at least I don't), what's the tt value of 15k skill levels, for instance.
Regarding the sine wave and so, no, definitely, there are not negative skill gains
It is simply that the function can be approximated for the curve y=x*exp(x) up to a level of 6-7k, quite accurately; but on top of that, you get a sine-like curve super-imposed to the exp curve.
The sine-like curve can be approximated too, to get a super-exact approximation for the range 6-7k, but I think that for practical purposes, it is quite ok to approximate the overall curve via polynomial interpolation, in the same way that was done in the skill calculator I mentioned earlier.
So, this is basically it. The problem now is that to improve the curve approximation for higher levels, we need people with uber skills to check very big chips and see how they skill increase goes for a certain tt value.
Yesterday I found a massive marksmanship chip (>1k ped tt), in Joker's shop. It would be great if someone with MMS level around 8-9k could check the chip and post what's their skill gain.
Cheers,
/jdegre.