Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26172435-20151221114104/@comment-26172435-20151223143634

High King Ithilion wrote: I honestly think that the Mount and Blade system is the best way to customise a character and upgrade their skills.

I wasn't familiar with the exact system for Mount and Blade but I took some time to check it. A system like that is indeed fancy and provides a good reference. Nonetheless, I would advocate to crate a simpler system with less traits. The reference I really like a lot is the Character_Stats plugin, which is simple and straightforward, both with respect to coding and configuring. I do not recommend to copy it, but to use the usable parts for a concept for this mod, if Mevans would deem this suggestion worthy to follow through.

As mentioned in response to a suggestion by Madman I would not favor to implement a skill point system, as I do believe this would encourage grinding (by offering an intermediate 'experience storage option') and we definitely want to avoid that, or at least discourage it. A knockout should come with a price: significant loss of experience (which can be interpreted as 'time to recover and re-learn'), at least. Credits to Recneps, who encouraged me to reconsider the grinding aspects, which made me reconsider my thoughts on 'experience orb storage'.