Originally Posted by Cromcrom
Another example of fucked design:
http://www.larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=484019#Post484016
Shouldn't it be the other way around ? The more you grow, the less there is to learn ? Instead, you start painfully with a few points, to gain more points as you get more levels.
I simply can't believe it. Everything is done to frustrate the player in the most unbalanced and illogical way.

And this is scary, because it is supposed to be an "improvment" over the 3 points/level.


I believe this change is to combat the problem of players maxing out their main skill before reaching level 10, and then not having much of a direction afterwards where to take their character.

I think that scaling the AB points you gain so it's low at the start, and the amount them you gain increases as you go up is better than starting high and the points decreasing, because the amount of points you need to increase an ability goes up with each rank. Having the points you gain increase as the amount of points required increases helps players keep up and should give them a sense of gaining power.

I think it's working too, because when I reached level 6 and saw that I had at least 2 points now (plus other ones I spared), I did feel like I was gaining more power, instead of just reaching another level.


Originally Posted by Cromcrom
This was well done in the previous build, because there was the same amount of points every levels, and the higher you got in the talents, the more points you needed. So you were slowing done as you leveled, which made sense.

Now, the more you grow (gain levels), and the better you become, the more points you have to increase your talent. So it is pointless to make the talents cost more, if you have more points to invest in them.


Its not quite the same thing. With the old 3 AB/level system, you could get 57 AB points. In this new system, you can gain either 39 or 44 AB points (I'm not sure which it is), so even though your AB points now increase as your level increases, you still have a lot fewer to play with than you did before, meaning they count more.