How does the skillful trait work?

[gt]

Hello, I have a question about skillful trait.
According to the description, every max. skill gives a quality star. My reporters with skill level 6, which is the highest that is possible without support items, don't get a star for the story. Am I misunderstanding something about the mechanics or is there a bug?

[Poofire]

I don't really like this trait. You need a skill of 10. Impossible to get for most reporter skills.

[gt]

Originally posted by Poofire:

I don't really like this trait. You need a skill of 10. Impossible to get for most reporter skills.

Thanks for the answer.
If you need 10 for it to work, then this trait is at the moment not worth to have.

[Tioyo]

@gt is wrong I think, and the max skill level is 5, not 6, which is when the reporter become senior. For each level 5 (not counting support items), you get a star, and for me it works. It works even if the guy is reporting in a field he's not maxed out. Hope it helps

[Beloega]

Originally posted by gt:

Hello, I have a question about skillful trait.
According to the description, every max. skill gives a quality star. My reporters with skill level 6, which is the highest that is possible without support items, don't get a star for the story. Am I misunderstanding something about the mechanics or is there a bug?

Hi there,

We think you are both be right here.
Because it depends on if you play with the latest patch or not (10 Oct)

We changed it from maxed buffed level (10 which was not worth it)
to max base level (5) the way Tioyo explained in the post above.

Thanks for posting though.
We might have missed to mention in the patch logs

[gt]

Originally posted by Beloega:

Originally posted by gt:

Hello, I have a question about skillful trait.
According to the description, every max. skill gives a quality star. My reporters with skill level 6, which is the highest that is possible without support items, don't get a star for the story. Am I misunderstanding something about the mechanics or is there a bug?

Hi there,

We think you are both be right here.
Because it depends on if you play with the latest patch or not (10 Oct)

We changed it from maxed buffed level (10 which was not worth it)
to max base level (5) the way Tioyo explained in the post above.

Thanks for posting though.
We might have missed to mention in the patch logs

I started the game where it didn't work before October 10th. Thanks for the answer.

[Poofire]

Originally posted by Beloega:

Originally posted by gt:

Hello, I have a question about skillful trait.
According to the description, every max. skill gives a quality star. My reporters with skill level 6, which is the highest that is possible without support items, don't get a star for the story. Am I misunderstanding something about the mechanics or is there a bug?

Hi there,

We think you are both be right here.
Because it depends on if you play with the latest patch or not (10 Oct)

We changed it from maxed buffed level (10 which was not worth it)
to max base level (5) the way Tioyo explained in the post above.

Thanks for posting though.
We might have missed to mention in the patch logs

I hadn't realized this was changed, that's a really great trait to have now!

[Lancival]

Hmm I started a new game this week, but the skillful trait doesn't seem to work as described above? I trained a reporter (who has 5 base skill in politics) to add the skillful trait, but he doesn't add quality stars to any of the stories I assigned him to (including politics and non-politics stories, single-part stories and multi-part stories).

[Sparrow Night]

Originally posted by Lancival:

Hmm I started a new game this week, but the skillful trait doesn't seem to work as described above? I trained a reporter (who has 5 base skill in politics) to add the skillful trait, but he doesn't add quality stars to any of the stories I assigned him to (including politics and non-politics stories, single-part stories and multi-part stories).

level 5 base skill so no buff item levels to hit 5?
If it is a politics skill of 5 then it should only add a star to politic required story-files.

If this is all answered with yes there might be a bug.

Player.log + save game could really help then.
You can send it to [e-mail]

Thanks in advance (Don't feel obligated btw )

[Lancival]

Originally posted by Sparrow Night:

Originally posted by Lancival:

Hmm I started a new game this week, but the skillful trait doesn't seem to work as described above? I trained a reporter (who has 5 base skill in politics) to add the skillful trait, but he doesn't add quality stars to any of the stories I assigned him to (including politics and non-politics stories, single-part stories and multi-part stories).

level 5 base skill so no buff item levels to hit 5?
If it is a politics skill of 5 then it should only add a star to politic required story-files.

If this is all answered with yes there might be a bug.

Player.log + save game could really help then.
You can send it to [e-mail]

Thanks in advance (Don't feel obligated btw )

Thanks, I sent a bug report with my save for this issue, and another issue with the "powerlifting" trait that I encountered.

[Beloega]

Originally posted by Lancival:

Originally posted by Sparrow Night:

level 5 base skill so no buff item levels to hit 5?
If it is a politics skill of 5 then it should only add a star to politic required story-files.

If this is all answered with yes there might be a bug.

Player.log + save game could really help then.
You can send it to [e-mail]

Thanks in advance (Don't feel obligated btw )

Thanks, I sent a bug report with my save for this issue, and another issue with the "powerlifting" trait that I encountered.

We got it <3