Can someone tell me the best way to train astro at 200 ranks? I've been cycling through a prediction script, and it works, but it's just takes quite a while.

Do tools teach the skill better than standard prediction?

Predict analyze. It's your friend. My astro script looks something like this...


loop:

put predict future <self>
put obs <constellation|moon|sun>
pause <roundtime + .5>
put do some other stuff for a few seconds until the predict goes through
put predict analyze
pause <roundtime + .5>
put predict weather
goto loop

Using predictions with prediction tools is the fastest with Morleena up.

observe morleena
align lore
toss bones
align magic
toss bones
align survival
toss bones
align weapon
toss bones

PREDICT ANALYZE

However it slows down if Morleena is not available, and even slower if reduced to one pool.

The fastest I've since learned is scribing on a limb.

forage oak limb

repeat this:
observe wolf
scribe limb

Predicting to train astro has the benefit of also increasing your prediction counter.

On a related note, can we finally get rid of that? We've had astrology forever. The counter should go the way of the dodo and astro should take its place.

>What's that?

It's a counter for how many predictions you've done. It's used to give some sort of bonus to predicting and used in titles.

>How do i check it?

You can't.

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>> On a related note, can we finally get rid of that? We've had astrology forever. The counter should go the way of the dodo and astro should take its place.

I love the prediction counter, please don't do away with it. If anything, I'd like some dangerous and interesting way to get a general gauge on your counter. Like visiting Nera in the Astral Plane and getting some esoteric message you have to decipher. Or maybe something that varies from sect to sect to give some flavor.

-Coralin

Swapping the prediction counter for Astrology ranks to me sounds like the most sensible thing.

I'd have to go back through the code to be 100% sure (Not something I have the time to do right now) but the counter actually influences very little -- I don't believe it's used for tools at all, and even in visions I recall the roll being small. Of course the roll of astrology is also smaller than I'd like... but that's a topic for another day.

Primarily it's used as a title requirement.

-Raesh

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>>If this is the case, then I don't have much else against the counter. I was under the impression that even with astrology it was one of the most important aspects for our predictions though.

As far as I can tell the biggest factors are pool size and the ranks in the skill your predicting on. Tool bonuses help, but thats really about it as far as how predictions work.
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>Do tool predictions count towards the counter? Or only actual PREDICT predicts?

Was a change a while back to allow tool predictions to count. Used to be they didn't.

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