Why does it take FOREVER to improve wits?

[happyscrub]

nt

[Ashkorne]

Some of your NPCs is stupid, yo.



Seriously though, just search, search and search some more!
Also, get a Library and a survivor with the "Research" skill. That doubles Wits XP gain. ;)

[Ashkorne]

Ok, apparently getting Survivors with any of these Traits:
Dim Bulb
Drunk
Absent-Minded
Halves the amount of XP you gain from a search. So no Librabry plus a Drunk follower searching will take the rest of your life to level up. :S

[Professional Lodestar]

Originally posted by Grip Chimp:

Ok, apparently getting Survivors with any of these Traits:
Dim Bulb
Drunk
Absent-Minded
Halves the amount of XP you gain from a search. So no Librabry plus a Drunk follower searching will take the rest of your life to level up. :S

Really? Because my drunks level up rather quickly And I never kenw this

[Ashkorne]

Originally posted by Vic Boss:

Really? Because my drunks level up rather quickly And I never kenw this

You might be right. I think it's the "Total Lush" trait that causes Wits to improve slowly. I may have confused being a drunk with being an alcoholic ingame.

I think the "Drunk" trait makes them harder to get along with in Home base? It's hard to tell, unless it's specifically written in brackets from the Bio page.

[happyscrub]

Originally posted by Grip Chimp:

Some of your NPCs is stupid, yo.



Seriously though, just search, search and search some more!
Also, get a Library and a survivor with the "Research" skill. That doubles Wits XP gain. ;)

I got libarary + researcher + plus none stupid survivor (diane) and I probably did 100 searches by now and no where near max yet.

[Ashkorne]

I'm not sure with Wits, but with other skills you get 10 XP per "use" of that skill. So levelling up Shooting from Lv1 to Lv2 takes 100XP (10 kills) then Lv2 to Lv3 is 200XP (20 kills) and so on.

A "Let's Play" I'm currently watching has the guy convinced that doing fast searches is what causes him to get more XP, but I have no way to verify that. Mostly because I'm not suicidal enough to try!

[saku4563]

Instead of procrastinating on a new mission, I attended to it immediately and gained two Wits levels in a few minutes. It said something like "Quick response - +1 Wits."

[-bg-]

Originally posted by Grip Chimp:

I'm not sure with Wits, but with other skills you get 10 XP per "use" of that skill. So levelling up Shooting from Lv1 to Lv2 takes 100XP (10 kills) then Lv2 to Lv3 is 200XP (20 kills) and so on.

A "Let's Play" I'm currently watching has the guy convinced that doing fast searches is what causes him to get more XP, but I have no way to verify that. Mostly because I'm not suicidal enough to try!

I also feels that fast search gives me more XP, by start doing fast search (since my marcus is capable of taking a few hordes by himself) I notice that levelling to level 6 wits now takes less searches than getting to level 5. And as your wits level is high enough, fast search don't make loud noises as frequently as they do at low levels.