I Swear ~!

[Ambershine]

I think, I'm almost certain, but I can't prove this.. :!:

I have done ALL the tradeskills to a certain point on two seperate Toons. My druid is a 250 with trophy Jeweler and a max (200) fisherwoman, my Cleric is 220 Baker. I also have a smattering in smithing, pottery and brewing so its safe to say I've spent a lot of time doing trade skills.

I swear that after a certain point it gets harder to skill up when your making a skill up run, let's say 200 combines. The skill up rate seems to get harder and harder. If i log off then on again after a day or a few hours, skill ups seem to go faster. For example I was fishing and got skill up's 20 or so points then it took forever to skill up so i logged off then went back to it after a few hours and started getting good skillups again.

Anyone know anything about this? Is it just my imagination? :?:

[Khoren Stonefall]

I would be willing to wager a large amount that this is either your imagination (ie. you tend to notice observations that support your gut feelings, and ignore the ones that don't--ALL of us traders are guilty of that now and then. I think it's impossible to avoid), or you've been the victim of some unfortunate coincidences.

There are other plausible reasons that would all be based on theories that the pseudorandom code for tradeskilling in EQ is either intentionally or unintentionally screwed up in clever and complicated ways (if you specifically wanted to code the behaviour you're describing, consider the bother you'd have to go through to do it), but I'm with Occam's Razor on this one. Strange patterns and bizarre coincidences are guarenteed to exist in any sufficiently large random sample, and we tend to dwell on them because they seem to leap out at us from the usual and unremarkable drudgery of skillup work.

[Grozza]

While I don't think it would be that hard for them to add in code for this, after all UO does have its Power Hour, I'm pretty sure they would have let us know if such a thing exists.