Progress in Mystavaria comes in many forms, but lessons are the primary
means of advancing; you earn and spend them to raise skills to unlock
new abilities.
There are multiple ways to earn lessons:Accolades
Accolades are much like achievements - you will naturally collect them as
you experience the world, whether through exploration, combat, crafting,
service, or any number of other endeavours. Each accolade advances your
ETHOS and grants a one-time lesson reward upon completion.
See: HELP ACCOLADES, HELP ETHOS
Quests
Quests can be found or given by NPCs around the world, providing tasks
or guidelines for you to complete. Many quests tie into accolades,
meaning that completing them may reward you twice over: once for the quest
itself, and again for any associated accolade. Most quests give lessons
upon first completion, but some may also offer additional rewards such as
experience and completion, and some may even be repeatable for lessons.
See: HELP QUESTS
Daily Activity Lessons at Dawn
Across a single Mystavarian day, your varied activities contribute to
categories of advancement. At the next dawn, you may earn at most one lesson
from each category. It is most common to earn one lesson per day, or sometimes
two, though more is technically possible.
You will not always know what does or does not count toward earning a daily
lesson. This design is meant to encourage you to be active and present in the
world rather than to chase specific tasks. Wander, craft, fight, gather, lead,
trade, and engage with others - these are all meaningful activities; however if
you do little more than stand by idle, you are unlikely to earn these lessons.
See: HELP LESSONS, HELP LEARNINS
Automatic Skill Growth
At the end of each Mystavarian month, time spent using skills converts
directly into lessons learned.
Progression works as follows:
Many times you use a command or ability directly tied to one of your
skills, that skill will record a "use". These "uses" and distribution
can be seen with the PROGRESSION command.
At the end of a Mystavarian month (once per RL day), these "uses" convert
into lessons toward the associated skills. If you have recorded 50 total
uses, they convert at a one-to-one rate, meaning if you have 25 "uses" in
Survival and 5 "uses" in Attack, your Survival skill will increase by +25
lessons, and the Attack skill will progress by +5 lessons.
If your activity "uses" exceed a total cap of 50, lessons distribute
proportionally: the more you used a skill, the more of the 50 lessons that
skill will receive.
Any unused portion of the cap will roll over for the current Mystavarian
year (2 RL weeks), increasing your next day's cap (e.g. 55 instead of 50)
if you only earned 45 lessons the previous day. This means you can gain a
maximum of 700 progression lessons distributed over your skills during the
year. At the dawning of a new year, everyone's cap will reset to 50 for the
first day and begin to accumulate once more over the next Mystavarian year.
Lessons gained via progression uses are applied directly into your skills
themselves, rather than put into your lesson bank.
Example breakdown of progression:
Survival - 5 uses
Attack - 30 uses
Farming - 10 uses
At rollover: Survival gains +5 lessons, Attack gains +30, and Farming
gains +10. The remaining 5 lessons carry forward.
This system strives to reward natural play without putting effort into it -
it benefit from using your abilities as part of your adventuring, crafting,
gathering, civic duties, or roleplay. Spamming the same command over and over
is discouraged; not every command contributes, and many work on percentage
chances. Treat your journey as organic, and growth will follow accordingly.
Dream Study
Many Mystavarians may find it helpful to invest 240 lessons in the
Dreamlore skill to learn the ability DREAM STUDY. This ability
allows you to have some limited influence over your progression. Dream
Study adds a bonus of 25 "uses" toward the skill you choose to study,
letting you influence which abilities will benefit most from your
automatic skill growth.
Syntax:PROGRESSION or PROG