Slow Skill increse :(

[me54321]

Hi,
Im a miner and almost completed my decipleship. My surveying skill is now just over 550 and im using the matterfinder JU55 which has got SIB.
Now the thing is is that my skill gains have slowed ALOT.
Sometimes i can go about 10-15 probes without getting a single skill gain.
Is this normal when your comming to the end of your decipleship? Will my skill gains go a little faster after i graduate? Or is this the time when it just gets slower and slower from now on?

Of should i use differant tools???

Thanks

[Satans]

well DOOOH !

what did you expect ?
your SIB items will give you more faster skills at 550 than before ?

[-=rAndom=-]

I haven't seen lvl up in prospecting for about 3 weeks... lvl 14, 200 bombs per day, usualy 1-2 OA104 burned (amps do count toward faster skill gain).
the higher your skill the slower it goes up.
IMO active SIB on prospecting tools doesn't really work, I was getting faster skills with any unlimited maxed then limited unmaxed, but that may as well be just my imagination.

[me54321]

Originally Posted by Satans

well DOOOH !

what did you expect ?
your SIB items will give you more faster skills at 550 than before ?

Is that what i said???? No.

That much is obvious

[Kiriku Surgun]

It works like this afaik.

You will always skill slower and slower the more skilled you get

there are certain gaps
Most of the times if you nearly reaching a certain lvl your skills gains will drop tremendously, alster you got the new rank your skill gains seems to increase for a while again.

Also some skills are different because you also have the skill miners who intend to drop extra bombs when getting for axample perception.
So you might think they got those skills because something valueble is near, but if its true who knows.

Equipment used also has to do with your skill gains, If I use opalo ill be happy to gain a point or 4 in a day, when im using something bigger Ill gain more.

So amp's SIB and all that crap should speed up your skill gains although the gain of skill per pec used might be worse.

And I think its save to say that your skill gains will always be the same as day 1 (unless some nerfs)
So if you have 10k skill you get exactly the same as when you have 1k skill.

[Kiriku Surgun]

In order to try to explain that is the TT chip value.

Lets say 1k skill is 10ped chip

if you skill towards 0 - 1000 skills you got 10 ped
if you skill towards 10k - 10.001 you can chip that 1 point for 10 ped

figures are not correct its an indication of how it should work IMO

[Theren Strange]

Imagine what its like at lvl 30!!

Try to ignore the skill gains and just play for fun. I know a few dedicated miners who drop 1k bombs a day, every day, so dropping 200 a day isnt so much and those skill gains only roll past quickly when you spend quickly.

I remember when I first started playing, and as a hunter, I would burn 5k ammo and think fuck, my skills are moving so slow now how the hell am i going to get my next level up. I now go on minimum 50k ammo hunts, 3 times a day sometimes more, and I still think the same thing...

[Phil Surtees]

Skill gains in all professions slow down as you gain in rank.
After level 20 it is painfully slow. At level 30 you feel stuck in the mud.
I can only imagine what it like at lvl 40 and above, since I don't think I will get there in this lifetime.

MA did this to prevent total uber-skill-runaway. The ubers are still uber anyway.
So the rest of us have SIB stuff to compensate.

Also, I guess its the only way that MA could continue to claim that this is a game in which you can always get better, with no caps on levels, like some other games.

[Kartunes]

Yes it seems to me that skill gains slow as you are about to complete a level then they seem to go faster for a while. Each level will take more to complete. As mentiioned before skills are base on ped risked so you will gain more amped. More risk more reward or sometimes more loss. Good luck. BTW level 20 miner here.

[Blue Dragon]

Use (L) tools man