About skills

As with real-life, there are many things that anybody can do on Xyllomer. But, again as with real-life, the ability of your character to do these things will be increased by a degree of professional training. This training is what your character's skill levels represent.

To train a skill you need to attend either an open training school or the training centre of a guild that you are a member of.
To train anywhere you will need to pay in advance. When you are in a training centre you can check how much you have paid with the command: pay. This will return the amount in copper coins that you have already paid at that guild. To pay more you would type: pay <number> <type> coins. For example: pay 12 gold coins. If you just type: pay coins then you will pay all the coins that you have with you that are not being held in a backpack, bag, money belt or similar container.
Once you have paid you will need to select which skill to train. You do this by typing: train <skillname>. You will need to use the full name of the skill as it is shown on the: list in the training centre. After this is done you may as well leave the training room, they are rarely very exciting places to hang around.

As you learn skills your theoretical knowledge of the skill improves, but without practice your practical ability to use many skills does not. To check if your practical and theoretical ability with a specific skill are identical, or at least very close, you can type: skill <skillname> and you will be told: You need practice with this skill if they are not.
At any time during training, you can type: progress to get an idea of you character's increased understanding since the last time you checked. This will also tell you how much money you still have stored at each training centre. The money that you owe for ongoing training will automatically be deducted from your account at the training centre.
Your theoretical knowledge can only be trained a certain amount about your practical ability. Once this is reached if your type you will get a message: You need more practice to learn more about this skill.

Some players and wandering Non-Player-Characters may also be able to train you in certain skills. This will almost certainly depend on your personal reputation, religion, allyship with or against certain guilds and possibly on other factors too.