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Jun-22-2006 09:02

On some cases I do at the end of the case it says that I earn 20 ex points but doesn't say I earn a skill point, but.... sometimes it does, it just doesn't say that every time I do a case. Why is that happening?!?!

Jun-22-2006 09:07

Because the more experience you have the more it takes to earn a single Skill Point. At first you receive 1 Skill Point every 10 exp points, then you get 1 every 20 exp, then every 30 or 40 (I don't remember which one), and so on - as you get more experienced it takes longer and longer to get a Skill Point, so spend them wisely.

I highly recommend you to read the Welcome Newbies thread.

Jun-22-2006 09:13

Ok thank you very much shadowblack! :)

Jun-22-2006 11:44

Does anyone by chance know what ex level equals how many ex points you need for 1 skill point.

Jun-22-2006 11:55

There is no hard and fast formula that we the players know of (at least none that I have ever heard anyone claim).

We do know that as your XP level goes up the Skill Points are earned at a slower rate. The curve does stop and stays steady at the higher levels, with that level seeming to be somewhere over the 150,000 XP mark.

At that top level it is one Skill Point for roughly every 10,000 XP points.

Jun-22-2006 12:20

Oh my! :0 thats alot of xp. Well thanks for the info both of you! :)

Jun-22-2006 12:47

Ran I think you mean one skill point for every 40,000 points! Takes me (took me, anyway) 7-8 AI cases to get one skill point.

Jun-22-2006 15:52

Wow those AI cases must be really hard! :O

Jun-22-2006 16:14

Ara, there is some fuzzyness about the actual numbers.

I have 5560900 XP right now and 261 skill points, having just earned the last Skill Point within the last or second to last case.

I know that if I get all 10 AI cases turned in during a day I earn 1 Skill point. Perhaps there is a slight further plateau after the million XP mark? you were far past that with Arab.

I do think that it is one of the mysteries of Sleuth we will not have a hard and fast answer for.

Just so that new detectives know that they need to keep doing harder and harder cases to earn more skill points.

Jun-22-2006 18:45

You know, after I'd gotten all the faction skills etc, I stopped paying attention, so maybe there is another plateau. But yeah, I guess the overall point is, skill points are way harder to come by the more experience you get.

Jun-22-2006 18:46

(I should point out for those wondering who the heck I am that until very recently I was Arabesque, who suffered an untimely and sad demise due to stupidity on my part. That detective had nearly 3.5 million exp points.)

(Yes, I know.)