Performance skills

[Zeita]

Hi all & imms,

Could we please have performance skills added for the following, with pmotes enabled:
- Dancing
- Acrobatics
- Juggling

I know that this one has been discussed and requested in the past, but Kinky asked me to post it up here so that it serves as a reminder.

[Callista]

If/when dancing is enacted, I would ask that the current bards be given the chance to convert footwork to dancing, free of charge. I can say that for those who purchased in and wished to have dancing as their performance "skill", I told them to get footwork, as that was the closest analog available at the time.

[Kinaed]

Consider allowing players (not just bards) to convert footwork to the new dance skill for free to be accepted. It will be so.

[Callista]

I only said bards because I can name a couple that I specifically told "You want to buy in as a dancer, fine, but you need a skill at 41 to qualify at that rank. Buy footwork since its the closest we have to dancing" :)

[Kinaed]

Is okay, but may as well offer it to everyone, especially with the nobles getting their panties in a bunch about it being a required courtly skill or some such.

I like my noblemen muscley and mean. Screw this poofy fop stuff.

[Amdair]

I take slight offense. :/ I don't think I'm 'getting my panties in a twist' so much as expressing my opinion about why it shouldn't be a required skill for our business, like <list of other examples I provided in other thread.>

That said, since it's clear that this is going in, regardless of my argument, I'd at least like the option to purchase up to where I should be as if from chargen- not switch footwork (a different skill that I have for different reasons,) to dancing.

[Kinaed]

I'm sorry for discounting your position on the matter in the manner that I did, Amdair. I shouldn't have.

Just a note: This is the "under consideration" thread, not the "it's a signed-deal" thread.

Regards,
Kinaed

[Estelle]

I do think any new skills implemented in the game should be purchasable for the first week or so (unless it's too difficult to code to allow players to purchase ingame?).

[Kinaed]

It's probably too difficult to do that skill-by-skill, but it's easy enough for an imm to just set the skill upon request for the first week. The XP cost would be the same.