Game Mechanics: Class Specific Tradeskills count towards the 200 Cap

[nilbog]

I am currently working on this issue.

It seems Make Poison certainly needs to be excluded from the tradeskill specialization check.

What about Alchemy though? Its skill cap is currently set for 180 at level 60, so I don't see how it would be possible to achieve > 200 unless our cap for it is wrong, or the patch note listing it wasn't relevant at the time.

Specialization restrictions do not include class or
race-specific trade skills such as Alchemy, Make Poison, and Tinkering.
Players with race or class-specific trade skills will be able to exceed
200 points of skill in that skill, PLUS any generally available trade
skill.

Additionally, it seems all tradeskills prior to 09/2000 need to be capped at 200, at which time the specialization system should take effect and allow one to increase to 250, excluding race/class specific ones. This will be relevant for future servers progressing through that era.

This thread https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...3&postcount=32 suggests Tinkering should be capped to 200 prior to 09/2001. Any supplemental or contradictory evidence would be appreciated.

If there is more information about the above ^ and/or anything relevant but not listed, I would like to get it addressed while this is fresh.

Thanks!