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Teaching Changes, posted on Wed Dec 27 12:02:46 2023
Posted by: Pit
Category: Special
Hello all!

There have been some changes to the way teaching works. Specifically:

* The goodness of teachers is now capped based on your own bonus.

* Teachers can specialise in a skilltree. The cap is higher for skills in the tree they specialise in.

* Both the teaching XP and the learning cost formulas have been adjusted slightly.

* There is now a "teachers" command to help you find online teachers for skills you want to learn.

To help those who manage learning-oriented websites, we will publish the most important formulas on the boards. For the big picture, the most important things to know are:

For students:

* Especially at low levels, there is no benefit to finding the "best" teacher for a skill, any specialised teacher whose effective teaching bonus (ETB) is above a certain number is equally good.[1]

* Especially at low levels, there *is* a lot of benefit to finding a specialised teacher.

* To make it easier for you to find a good teacher, you can use the "teachers" command to see available teachers.

For teachers:

* To show up on the teachers command, please use "teachers opt in"

* To make sure your students get the best cost, set "options personal teaching_spec" to the tree you prefer to specialise in. A specialisation can be changed every 5 minutes for now, although this is likely to change in the future.

We will be monitoring how this develops, and if the new system causes problems, so your feedback is welcome. It is very possible that there will be further changes in the future, depending on need.

Happy learning!

[1] Specifically: if a teacher's ETB is at least max(your bonus + 200, your bonus * 1.5), they are "optimal", and will give you the best possible XP cost for your skills.

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