setkey SkillReductionRate 0 should eliminate skill loss. Period.

[Greybeard]

With close to 2000 hours playing this game I have to say skill loss nearly ruins it for me every playthrough. Please let me configure my server the way my family and I want to. If I wanted to make it ludicrous you have given us plenty of options to "cheat" but won't let us remove the only thing in the game we don't like.

I think the designers know this and are basically exercising sadism.

Please. Please allow us to not have this pox on our server. Not reduced, not nearly eliminated. Disabled. Completely.

Call it fluffy carebear mode or any other derogatory term for "we want to enjoy earning skills", but let setkey SkillReductionRate 0 function as reasonable uses would expect it to.

[HyperLightDrifter]

Only if the devs replace the greylings with a Carebear image. Think of them as running in for a hug as you explore the meadows.

[Greybeard]

The core of this rant is that skill reduction makes fishing absurd. Fishing is slow to level and takes it in the tailpipe every death. With reduction it gets fkd slower, but fkd nonetheless.

[Exodite-Dragon]

I think the bigger issue is that you need to identify what you're doing that's causing you to die with such frequency that skill loss has become more than a minor annoyance.

[Zombits]

They working on further world modifiers as we speak.

Ultra mega easy mode option coming next update

[trapani2]

Can't you change your server stuff now? You can set that all to 0% loss if you want to.

[knighttemplar1960]

Character and world saves are different files. You can take your character into a different (single player) world and use dev commands to restore lost skill if you want.

[Greybeard]

I believe I have it working, but I have no way to see it in the console or UI, just going on faith and a couple of experiments.

Once I executed devcommands, then I ran setkey, the skill loss was eliminated but on the F2 screen or in listkeys output, nothing is shown, so I had to kill a character to see if the key was working.

Previously I had set world modifier death penalty to Easy, and without running devcommands first setkey SkillReductionRate was Unchanged. After devcommands I was able to get the effects of the key, and the world modifier dropped off the F2 screen.

It would be very helpful if listkeys were actually showing effective keys, and setkey should provide some feedback the command actually took effect (or error if it didn't)

[Zombits]

Loading previous save is the easiest way to disable death , tomb recovery , without the complexity of devcommands or any cheat . ( Load .old file for world and character ).

Best way for solo

[JP_Russell]

I was under the impression this command did remove skill loss on death. Does it not?

As for fishing, dying is the least of that skill's issues; it needs to level at something like 10x the rate it currently does, conservatively. The hours and hours of dedicated fishing needed to get you to level 30 even without any deaths, for example, which will give you more fish wraps and fish n' bread than you'll ever need in a playthrough, is only about 5% of the way to level 100 with the way the XP curve works. Fishing is also probably the skill that sees the most benefit from leveling it, and is mechanically designed to gate you out of realistically fishing at least the larger variants of fish from later biomes until you've leveled the skill a fair amount.

[Zombits]

Fishing was a test branch skill. Only useful for 1 biome.

Please don't try to get level 100 crossbow or fishing.

[Greybeard]

I wouldn't even mind the death penalty if it didn't wreck my fishing skill. I am weird, I am one of those guys who actually enjoys fishing, but unless I exclusively fished and managed not to ganked by a deathsquito or worse I just can't get anywhere with the skill. I was really looking forward to this key so I could fish and actually get somewhere with it for once.

With devcommands on it's working I believe, we will see what happens after my dedicated server does it's nightly reboot, fingers crossed.