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Jul-12-2005 10:12

Ok, I've looked through the first page of posts and didn't see an answer to this question, so I'm going to ask it. Why is it that any favors I do always intermediate and garner a skill point, but if I do an intermediate by myself (I don't bother, anymore, and am working on hards) I only get experience points?? Sorry if this was asked, but I really didn't see it, here.

Jul-15-2005 05:52

Is it just xp, or is there any relation to 'age'? I have been gainig skill points extremely slowly recently, though I haven't been able to play as often.

Jul-15-2005 11:29

It is your experience points that will trigger a skill point. Gaining skill points get more difficult as your experience goes up. It's been forever, it seems like, since I've gained one *sigh*

Jul-16-2005 18:15

Skill points are triggered with experience. When you first start out almost every case gives you a skill point (plus experience) and its easy to earn skill points and get skills. As you get lots of experience it takes longer and gets harder to get a skill point. For me if I had to guess maybe every 50,000 or so experience gives me a skill point. Maybe more maybe less though I doubt less so probably more. For the veterans that have over 5 million my guess is it takes probably over 300,000 to get skill points. Maybe a little less Id have to get back cause I dont have a million yet. but Im sure those that have even almost 8 million it takes at least a hundred thousand or something. more probably. but it does get hard to get skill points. If you only do easy cases then it may take over a year to get a skill point. So if you want increased chances at getting skill points, do the hardest possible cases. For me and a good portion of everyone else, thats almost impossible cases which give 5150 or something experience. Its not guaranteed to get a skill point but for me like every 10 or so of those gets me a point so if I do all my cases if I am lucky I can get one point a day. Ive been busy so I havent been able to do all 10 cases each day but do as many as I can