Your skill bonus increases

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This thread pleases me to no end. First, an articulate post that manages to bring up fatigue's sugarcoating without losing composure and just shouting, "COME ON, MAN, WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO FOOL!?" and then, immediately after, the redundancy of that shield issue. The clarified surplus messages seem to imply that we're not being docked points for playing too much, but that by playing as much as we do, we've lost access to a surplus of bonus SP we were granted for using a fresh class - a bonus we weren't exactly informed of, but that's neither here nor there.

Personally, I don't think the second "skill" should be there at all. These messages usually come labelled by the abstract noun form of the agent's craft; A thaumaturge is docked thaumaturgy skill points. A conjurer is docked conjury skill points. Why is a sentinel docked shield skill skill points? Personally, I'd dock them sentinel skill points, since I'm not sure "sentinelry" is a word - or maybe I'd dock them sentry skill points if I was confident that using etymological origins as abstract nouns was okay even if modern grammar defined them as different words. You know, whatever I was feeling that day.

-= System Message =-
You earn reduced surplus recognition points due to talking too much.

AW, COME ON, MAN. WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO FO-... >.> <.< >.>