Originally Posted by
Scrotus
Well maybe there should be a system in place that makes it so people must state in their profile how many levels they have used a certain skill or skill-set.
Example:
(For a now level 5)Swordsmanship: Began at level 0 -That's five levels of practice
Vs.
(For a now level 10)Swordsmanship: Began at level 9 -That's one
-From that alone it's pretty clear who will outclass who with that skill. I think doing it this way would provide more strategy to fights, because if I was facing off with a really powerful wizard, whose weak with swords, I'd want to get up close and personal. If I was facing Letho, whose had swordsmanship probably for close to all of his levels, I'd want to steer clear of him and use a different tactic.
That's one way of doing it. That way at level 0 you can have whatever skills you want and it's determined on the levels that you use that skill. During profile updates you can choose to continue advancing that skill with level counters, or add new ones. Maybe each level you get a certain ammount of level counters (basically skill points). I think it would also decrease a lot of clutter in peoples profile. Instead of having to read long-winded descriptions of how someone wields their sword, you could just see that they are "X" levels counters into that skill set. My thoughts on the fly.
I think the problem with the current way we're doing it is that we have nothing to base off of. Someone people have it writen as "better than the average human" where someone else could have "better than the average elf." If there was a point system in effect it would not only decrease clutter within profiles, but also help the RoG mods out when approving profiles. It could also help with powergaming because one player could just say "look broseph, I'm a better swordfight fo-shizzle... Look at my counters." There'd be no arguement.
Attributes would also have to come into play, because someone with 2x speed and 3 counter points for sword-skill might be able to outclass somebody with 5 counters but only 1x speed. It would then be a case of who writes it better. So that proves a little flaw in my system here.