Sky thinking deeply kept walking around and arrived a center square, which decorated with fountains and a stone statue. Same statue he saw before at the beginning. A man looking like a hero on his horse seems to be yelling for victory.
Behind statue there is a girl standing, seems to be around late 20s or early 30s with full white dress emitting holy light around it. Sky gets closer to differentiate if she is a player or NPC.
Advanced Player Guide
Xin
“Guide for new players or GM?” Sky thinks and goes near the Xin standing next to fountain.
“Hi”, sky said smiling to the beautiful girl surrounded by some kind of mystic light.
“Hi Sky, I am Xin”
“Sorry to ask, are you NPC or GM”
Xin laughs a bit in a soft voice and says
“I am an advanced player guide, checking a few players who followed this path without noticing the warnings. I am not a game master but a community manager, CM. Is there anything I can help you with?”
“I would be glad if you can reply a few questions I am puzzled with, Miss”
“Please ask, but only three questions. It’s not allowed for us to spoil too much to new players”
“Then here is my first question, I want to learn more about stats, how they grow and if there is any stat cap”
She smiles and looks the face of Sky for a moment without talking.
“It seems, you are one of players who rushed into the game without reading player guides nor warnings. As you are level five, you should already know about stats. I can guess the purpose of this question from your puzzled face”, she laughed again and continues.
“Firstly stats can be increased by any activity. Fighting with melee weapons will increase your strength greatly. Fighting with ranged weapons will increase your dexterity greatly and casting magic will increase your intelligent greatly as you can guess. Crafting can increase all of your stats depending on the job. Other than those doing any activity such as lifting boulders or running for a while can increase your stats. Best way is for you to find, I can’t spoil it.”
“Lifting boulders” sky looked her with puzzled eyes.
“Yes, you can lift stones or bigger boulders around mountain site to increase strength. If you want a tip, pushing into your limits will increase your stats faster.”
“Pushing limits, how?”
“Like when you have 10 strength, lifting 100 pound stones or running as fast until your stamina start decreasing”
“I understood, Thanks for the tip Xin. What about stat cap?” sky asked politely. He begins to think maybe he can try to go mountains or running around to increase his stats. If he can find a river side or a lake, he can even try swimming. After a moment of thinking he continues listening.
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“As for stat cap, it is level multiplied by five. Like when you are level 5, all of your stats can be increased to 25 if you work enough on them”
“Thanks, Miss Xin. This was great help. I have another question that was giving me headache for a long time. I heard if you are professional martial artist in real life, system gives you advantage, how casual players can close this gap”
“Nice question, but it is all written in players manual in detail. I will just reply shortly. First of all there is only gap at start. We value equality, so system assist players to be equal. ” after a brief sigh from her, she continues.
“At beginning people with martial art skills will start with higher proficiencies and it will be easier for them to develop skills. This part is true advantage.
“But in later game for a person who increased proficiency to 70 through gaming and who increased to 70 by 30 years real life experience. How can they be equal in term of experience?”
“One online will improve knowledge of person in real life as well. One’s reflexes and combat knowledge but of course in real life they will never be equal. But in one online if your opponent is inferior to you in proficiency system will assist you. For example, if your swordsmanship is master level at %90 and opponent is real life practitioner with %70 swordsmanship. Once your opponent try to hit you, if your game headset is over 12000XR, it will signal your nervous system in brain and you will try to dodge by reflex. Of course one who learned through real life experience will be faster in reflexes but you will still have chance against real experts in One Online.”
“Than proficiencies with weapons are a lot important than stats, isn’t it?”
“At early games both important, but at late games only proficiencies and skills comes in handy. Also system doesn’t allow lucky shot.”
“What you mean doesn’t allow?”
“If opponent is too inferior to you in term of in game experience, System will warn your brain and will be forced to dodge or parry the attack. After all nobody likes to take damage and suffer pain, unless you are masochist” Xin said and she starts to laugh.
“I answer quite a few question of yours, for now I need to go. Hope to see you around Sky”, she says as she is smiling.
“Thanks for the information and the tips”, Sky said and Xin disappeared in thin air.
Sky smiles happily and looks towards fountain where Xin was standing a few seconds before. As most of questions are answered in his head, Sky walks towards crafting district to check for new items and possible adventures.
“Maybe, I can learn crafting, blacksmithing. Maybe”