The Fates
Cereal Killerz
Chimaera Pact
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Posted - 2006.11.05 01:43:00 -
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""I saw theres a pay off for 4-5 pay off learning skillaround 240-400 days.
what about 2-3, 3-4? it just seems like of all the learning skills this one has the LONGEST payoff times for the least benefit. would 3-4 have a 120-200 day pay off time??""
Pay off time is going to be determined by your starting attributes and what you are training during that time. This explains the variance between 240 and 400 days for "payoff". Would III -> IV have a 120 day to 200 day payoff time? Depends on your attributes and what you are training. For example, if with an attribute pair you have 10 primary and 8 secondary, for 14 sp per minute, and add 2% to that, you get 14.28 sp per minute. If you have 8 primary and 6 secondary, for 11 sp per minute, then you get 11.22 sp per minute. In one case you gained .28 sp per minute, in the other, .22 sp per minute. It depends. Over that length of time you will train different things with different attribute pairs. The real kick here is that this only explains it in terms of getting your skill points back, not in time saved. They are different payoffs, one that I'm currently exploring in the sticky thread on skill calculations.
""I am already starting to regret training it to level 4. Perhaps it would be better to wait until later to learn this skill at all?? when your attributes are higher and you can learn it faster and have a better pay off time ratio?""
Your intuition is serving you well here. The higher your attributes the more the 2% provides. If you read the sticky threads there is an optimal pattern to train learning skills there.
""IS the 240 day payoff with MAX attributes?""
Good question that I can't answer, but I'd guess its with your attributes very high. The higher they are, the more the 2% bonus provides, and the shorter the payoff time will be. Again look for the optimal learning skill sequence in the sticky.
Hi Pottsey. Good to see you are still on the train of getting people to understand the benefits of the advanced learning skills being maxed out when your character is much older. Pottsey does have a point, in that if your learning skills are maxed out, you learn faster in new skills than someone who doesn't have them maxed out.
Of course Pottsey is only right about that if your base attributes are the same. It's also possible that the other person has higher base attributes, and less learning, and trains the skill faster than you anyway.
Pottsey you are invited to look at the method for time payoff on advanced learning skills i have posted in the calculations sticky earlier to comment there if you can find any errors in that method. 
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