Language circles

[Brut]

Originally Posted by Lazortag [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What's the use in learning a new language exactly? Or is this one of those.. "fun" things?

Ohyes I forgot all these languages/tradeskills/factions/other stuff are complete waste of time, I should be in the middle of killing a dragon and getting a bigger faster sword!

Thank you for reminding for me what is "fun" and what is not good man.

[Ossigor]

Only thing I like to do while sitting around a circle with other men isn't appropriate to talk about here. Send me tell in game.

[JazzineCleric]

Have a question about the language stuff. I seem to remember at one time you used to be able to use a macro to make the learning go by faster. Is it still working that way or do macros not work anymore? If so...how do you get the macros to work? lol

[Weekapaug]

Originally Posted by JazzineCleric [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Have a question about the language stuff. I seem to remember at one time you used to be able to use a macro to make the learning go by faster. Is it still working that way or do macros not work anymore? If so...how do you get the macros to work? lol

We noticed the other night that macroed multi-lined groupchat messages do nothing for language skillups but manually spamming a single line does.

For the record, in classic, making a multi-lined macro for this purpose was the most used and accepted way to increase language skill for a group and was commonly done. The way it currently works on P99 is most certainly, NOT classic.

In order to reduce spam, however, mult-lined /ooc and /shout macros did not work.

[Reiker]

Originally Posted by astarothel [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Maxed:
Common Tongue
Barbarian
Erudin
Elvish
Dark Elvish
Ogre
Gnomish
Halfling
Troll

Thieves Cant

Dark Speech
Elder Elvish

In a brilliant use of game mechanics here's how people can easily work together to cap out NPC languages. Rather than a single person dumping in 100 training points, by splitting it up between people you can save a lot. Say in a group of 4, one person trains to 25, then spams. Then another trains 25-50 and spams the group up. Then another trains 50-75 and spams the group up. Then another does 75-100 and tops everyone off. I know there's some cost disparity in training at levels, but the idea is still there, and the more people willing to do it, the more skill points and money is spread out. The best part is, if you don't want to waste your main's skill points that is what alts are for! With a little coordination we can all be polyglots [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not sure if this was posted yet, but on live you can actually teach 1 skill point above your skill. For example if you have 50 Orcish, you can teach someone to 51 Orcish. I believe they had to zone to bump you back up to 52 though, although I'm not entirely sure on that. But it was possible to max all the languages as long as someone started with a single point in them.

[JazzineCleric]

Actually, I was doing some research last night and believe I found the answer to the macro. In the first line of the macro, you need to put /lang <#> and then in the rest of the lines just enter whatever for group chat.

[maximum]

Originally Posted by Brut [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/s...10225908671147

Was thinking it'd be a bug that had to zone between each skillup, but looks like it's classic. =p

Hell.

[Nagash]

On Live, one could teach a langage to someone else up to 1 point above their skill level (for example player A has a Teir'Dal skill of 66, he could teach player B this skill up to 67). It made no sense whatsoever but could be used in an interesting fashion: you only needed to have 1 player with a skill of 1 to increase his skill and others' up to 100 (player A teaches player B up to a skill of 2, player B then teaches player A up to a skill of 3, etc...). We did it with some friends on Live, took ages but was definitely doable.

Edit: didn't see Reiker beat me to it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Nagash/Petitpas

[eqravenprince]

Firiona Vie had it so you can only get 5 skillups per hour. I kind of liked it, I ended sometimes having to speak through emotes.