Is there a limit to how many points you can get?

[Hermit]

I don't know a lot about the game. Is there a limit to how many points you can get and spend on skills or do you need to be very careful about what you choose to upgrade? Is it possible to max out everything with enough grinding?

[Sisyphus]

There's a practical limit but not a fixed limit. You won't come even close to maxing everything because there are 24 skills. Also, what you can spend on a skill depends on your starting stats. So if you had a 1 in int you can only spend one point on int skills. At the maximum you could have a starting stat of 6, so 6 base + 6 skill points to spend.

There's no grinding and maxing out skills is not valuable. Skill points are just there for you to unlock checks if you fail, after you've developed a few primary skills that fit the character you want to play.

[WarMom]

No hard limit, but you just won't get enough points to max everything. However, you won't need to. Levels will feel like they come regularly and quickly, and if you explore and do sidequests then chances are before the game is done you'll feel like you have more points than you know what to do with.

[War]

And theres a couple of thoughts that gives you exp when some skills kicks in.
I had two of those on Int and got a lot of points.

[roach]

I feel like I got about forty points or so on a full playthrough, doing almost all side objectives.

[Amadeo]

I loaded my last save, stripped my character naked, and calculated that, accounting for bonuses and penalties from thoughts, as well as the points spent on unlocking the Thought Cabinet slots, I gained 47 points during the game. I did almost everything and went through almost every dialogue option in the game (I do like trees); I also benefited from a couple of XP granting thoughts.

So, the limit is somewhere around 48-50 points, but it's virtually unreachable because you cannot do everything with a single character without spending hours save scumming.

[WarMom]

Kind of baffled by the above two posts - I admittedly had some exp-farm thoughts but by endgame I had levelled up around *seventy* times.

[Amadeo]

Originally posted by WarMom:

Kind of baffled by the above two posts - I admittedly had some exp-farm thoughts but by endgame I had levelled up around *seventy* times.

How many points does your detective have in skills at the end of the game without any clothes on?

[WarMom]

Originally posted by Amadeo:

Originally posted by WarMom:

Kind of baffled by the above two posts - I admittedly had some exp-farm thoughts but by endgame I had levelled up around *seventy* times.

How many points does your detective have in skills at the end of the game without any clothes on?

I calculated by [however many diamonds I had in skills, not skill values] + [thought cabinet slots other than the initial 3] + [number of forgotten thoughts]

It should be noted I had Mazovian Socioeconomics, Jamais Vu, and Actual Art Degree for most of the game, then Wompty Dompty Dom for a bit over half.

[Amadeo]

I didn't internalize Actual Art Degree or Wompty Dompty Dom. Can they really grant ~ 2000+ XP?!

P.S.: actually, yes; I guess they could...