Shattered Kingdoms

I've played another MUD where, if you want to train your skills/spells, you need to train on NPCs your own level to be successful. If you practice on low-level NPCs, you will see no improvements. Is SK the same way or does it work to practice skills (like a weapon skill) on low-level NPCs?

It does work to practice skills and spells on low level PCs.

That's an interesting idea, but not so interesting that I could see myself making that change. Because people would probably freak out.

For the record, I'm not suggesting it!

Oh man, that'd be hilarious. But yes, as Sadr said, skills seem to get gains regardless of the NPC that you're practicing them on.

In the MUD I mentioned, the skill improvement code led to unwritten rules like "Spend 20 hours practicing dodge/parry/shield block at level 15 or you'll never be able to bring them up later." Skills would only train to 75% and from there you'd have to use them to get the % up. The only way to do it effectively was to lure 10+ NPCs into one room and try to fight them all at once for thirty seconds... then sleep for a few minutes... rinse, repeat.

Doesn't work at level 50.

All in all, I'm very glad SK does not work the same way.