Implemented Make /vortessence Entries grant xp to the Vortessence Skill.

[Chris]

Currently, there is no way to actually level up the Vortessence skill other than spamming the Vort beam at the wall untill you hit the level cap. Obviously I and I'm sure many others would find this pretty immersion breaking and doesn't give a good sense of progression. However, I also realise making the /vortessence menu grant xp could be easily abused with trash, low effort entries. Perhaps even deleting them after they're made to capture the xp.

My solution to this, is to use the fact that each /vortessence entry is linked to the character as means to have it function like an xp boost. Assuming you have 10 entries and each give 10xp, you would effectively store 100xp. If one of these entries were deleted, then it would knock your xp back down to 90xp. Preventing entry spam.

This would give a more roleplay orientated way to level up the Vortessence simply by playing the game and interacting with the other Vortigaunts, though I'm not sure if a system like this can even be implemented practically.

 

[Bodger]

On the flip-side there is my suggestion of having a flag for vort leads that gives them a similar system to the staff request system.
Vorts can type /meditate which will enable a logging system to capture the /me's of the vort, they will then carry out their /me's for meditating, it could also capture the input of anything they apply to the vortessence menu. They then end the meditation with a /meditatedone command or whatever and it is placed into a GUI for vort leads to read through, accept/deny, grant vortessence XP and so on. Then when accepted/denied the vort is notified whether their meditation was accepted and how many XP they gained. This would also allow more XP to free vorts for their un-hampered connection to the vortessence

 

[Atle]

Accepted

It'll be available on next server restart