Pottery Puzzlement

[senseandviolets]

Exp?

How effective is sculpting supposed to be for filling a character's pool? For me, starting a project with an empty pool begins the learning process, but before the wheel is done spinning there is a need to "experience new things." Not everyone that I have talked with in game experiences this, so I would like to be sure that the change is intended.

Glazing…

If there is a project on the table similar to the one that is being held sometimes the project on the table ends up receiving the glaze.

Handy?

What exactly needs to be held while painting? Currently the glaze or paint jar must be held while dipping, and the project held while painting. However, the water jar does not need to be held. I would like to know why this is. It should be possible to dip the brush into a jar of any liquid that is on a table. I would appreciate if this could be implemented, after the pressing, cutting, stowing, sculpting, etching, placing, (getting, placing) closing, and firing, my fingers are awfully tired! (Not to mention Layne’s. Plus she gets that extra leftover clay gook all over those jars and you know what neat freaks us artisans are!) I think that cutting out that extra get and place (as well as complications from having more than one color of your effective medium) would be appreciated by quite a few. :]

--Sorry, I had to ask about the inconsistency but couldn’t help but plead for a favorable answer.
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[HR-Trevor]

On experience:

If you're gauging by this weekend, we've had double exp absorption so that's thrown it off kilter. If you've experienced low exp gains prior to this as well there may need to be some adjustment. However, you gain help get your full pool in great part by training intellect.
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[nireb]

kill loads of chiths or train intellect....hmmmm.....ive been known to be stupid so its species exticntion time!

[mellie]

to start, Mellie has a low 5 intellect. Ive found that pottery is a slow but steady exp gain. Instead of it filling your pool then require draining if your fast enough your steadily gaining exp. I always fill my head hunting then make pottery. Works well and my pool never really drains until Im done. I think its perfect. Although I would like to see exp earned from glazing and stenciling

[HR-Arden]

[Morgana]

[...but before the wheel is done spinning there is a need to "experience new things."]

I get the same thing if I start in to do Pottery with nill in my pool. I fill my pool first then go do pottery while it drains. That was before the fantasic double time weekend (inwhich if I did pottery I wasn't learning at all). So hunted and foraged all weekend, Beau kept stalking me he can tell ya' <whimpers>.
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[senseandviolets]

Thanks for the quick responses.

The exp gain that I had described was before the weekend bonus. Can I expect to learn somewhat more from pottery in the future, or is it better utilized as a draining activity?
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[nireb]

only im allowed to stalk morgana. Beau leave 'er alone!

[HR-Arden]

I made some changes to pottery. You should be able to shape a project without your pool completely draining now.

Also, jars of glaze now have 10 uses, purely for convenience purposes. The cost per use is still the same.

Arden

[senseandviolets]

::applause:: Neat.
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[Morgana]

Definately noticed the change. Thanks muches!
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