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It took you this long to realize that?
synergy will probably come in options to use different related skills with a bigger or lesser difficulty regarding how related is the skill to the problem.
Because Wasteland 1 was a skill-based cRPG, attributes were pretty much useless except IQ for raising skill points. Wasteland 1 also had a alot of minor utility skills which got very rare use, but when they did it could be very beneficial, did you read the update? They say quite clearly in one line that the objective isn't to "balance" or make sure all skills get equal use, but to make sure those skills which get rarer use are more important when they do. ie you don't expect to be using Toaster Repair or Animal Whisperer often, but when you do it could be very useful.
Well, I don't think of game design as some kind of mathematical science, I think it's more akin to a creative and artistic thing. If it's cool in game, if it adds to the uniqueness and charm, I don't think it matters if it's balanced, many old RPGs followed a similar logic which many modern designers would think "What were they thinking", like in insidiously hard dungeon maze designs, or puzzles, or in Wasteland's case strange skills like Cryptology or Confidence which might only get 1 or 2 uses in the whole game, yet the player in his imagination might always wonder where that one use for the skill actually was, and what (possibly) huge and valuable benefit it might give you. I mean I never took Toaster Repair in WL1 but as I understand you could only use it to repair toasters in the Sleeper Base.
Still doesn't make sense to me. This guy (see below) does not need skill to break down a door or smash a box. I dont care if he has never tried to break down a door or smash a box. I am willing to bet he can get it done. Doing it many times may help him do it FASTER in the future. He may be able to splinter the wood into finer bits. But, regardless of his experience, that door is going down.
And I honestly do not see the issue with skills that have limited uses, or even extremely rare uses. There's such a thing as flavor, a player could focus in more obscure utility skills and not be great in combat, what does that matter, it could result in some extremely awkward (and lethal) playthroughs in which your eccentric team of mechanics, diplomats and toaster repairers have to narrowly avoid combat and search out for that rare opportunity to level up those skills.
Yeah well, PE is going to be banal party-based Diablo, so I couldn't care less.
Instead I am certain that the door will stay there unscathed, only imbeciles believe that bodybuilders are not only strong but superstrong, are you twelve years old?But, regardless of his experience, that door is going down.
It's not as big a deal when you have a party. You just distribute your chosen silly skills amongst a few members, make those characters more consistently useful in other ways, and hope the decision pays off. It's not as harsh a sacrifice as wasting points on Gambling for your single character in Fallout.
