Reading/Learning

[YouMarshMallow 1]

A simple idea I have is that you make a book and you can right click it to "read it" to give a single skill point to one random skill

would be a nice incentive to make books

have them to only read one book a day and once you right click a book it will be "read" and you will not be able to learn anymore from

it just a simple thing and on severs I would be cool to make libraries.

[Visitor 36]

Was already suggested. I am not very fond of such thing. It'd be incentive not to make books in general, but to make more skill-training books and just grind, grind, grind. Even in case of libraries you've mentioned, you wouldn't really make players come because it'd be a really nifty library. You'd make them come so they can quickly stock up on skill points and be on their merry way.

I'd rather have skills balanced from the angle of long, harsh practice, alone. Otherwise, the whole feature is meaningless as everyone on a bigger server will quickly ramp their skills.

The only possible exception and a way I could see this work is if relevant skillbooks could be made only by characters of very high skills and even then, a book that would result from their work could train maximum the first 'level' (talking about skill proficiency titles here). Complete newbies would have help, it'd ease some really stupid issues with current skills (making hundreds of dishes to create something actually palatable) but it'd not lead to powergaming (though let's be honest, most players would still just quickly go through all available skillbooks and stop caring afterwards). I can't think of having it any other way without being concerned whether it's not a bad idea.