If it is you linking someone for an experience boost and you got that messaging, most likely you have a good deal more than them, so they are dragging you down a smidge.

If you got that when someone linked you, then i'm stumped. I think i've only linked half a dozen times, although I think it rocks.

Purehand is dead and in no condition to continue teaching you.

~Purehand

>>I was linking with someone who has approximately 12 more ranks than I in scholarship

I think it would be an awesome ability, and increase the usefulness of LINK greatly, if we could actually LINK CHECK and determine what sort of link we've established, and to what degree.

Something like:

>LINK CHECK
You feel a deep empathic link with Sadris, and you feel far more competent... (50+ ranks)
You feel a deep empathic link with Sadris, and you feel more competent... (25 - 49 ranks)
You feel a deep empathic link with Sadris, and you feel a bit more competent... (10 - 24 ranks)
You feel a deep empathic link with Sadris, and you feel just as competent... (-9 - 9 ranks)
You feel a deep empathic link with Sadris, and you feel a bit less competent... (-10 - -24 ranks)
You feel a deep empathic link with Sadris, and you feel less competent... (-25 - -49 ranks)
You feel a deep empathic link with Sadris, and you feel far less competent... (-50 or less ranks)

You get the idear. Very specific messaging detailing the strength and depth of the link... which provides useful information to the Empath. DOWN WITH VAGUENESS!

I think this ability should be based on discilpline, wisdom, scholarship, and empathy.

SADRIS, King of the Obvious

>As the link between you and **** deepens, you feel not as smart in scholarship.

I thought I had read somewhere else that this was actually correct, if a bit messy. It's supposed to denote that you feel 'not as smart' at scholarship (or whatever you're linking to) as the person you're linking to is. Mebbe I'm making that up? Coulda sworn I saw it somewhere. I'm 99% sure I saw that messaging when I linked to a very high circle Empath with my ~10th circle one... I don't think I could lower my Empathy, if I linked to someone 100+ circle. <shrug>
If it does mean that you're effectively lowering your skill via the link... whoever wrote that messaging needs some grammar lessons or something, because that's just awful looking. It's pretty bad either way, truthfully.

-Le Skootre

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This is smooth. Super smooth. If pudding could doodie, it wouldn't come out this smooth.

if you're really close to their skill level, you can get the negative message, even if they know more than you. As Pure said, there's a big random figure between the actual skills and what you get out of it. I never check my links by what the link message says. Always check by the link check command, it seems to be accurate, whereas the other does not


Souv

You sense (N, S) from your current position:
A relatively healthy presence nearby.
Roundtime: 6 seconds

while that would be nice, do you really have a problem figuring out who you're heart linked to?


Souv

You sense (N, S) from your current position:
A relatively healthy presence nearby.
Roundtime: 6 seconds

Being blonde and saying your dumb has always been one of my pet peeves... I even know a couple blondes who are geniuses.
But why do you cast so many heart links if you can't remember all of them?


Souv

You sense (N, S) from your current position:
A relatively healthy presence nearby.
Roundtime: 6 seconds

seems infeasible. Having the whole world fear you is a much more likely goal


Souv

You sense (N, S) from your current position:
A relatively healthy presence nearby.
Roundtime: 6 seconds

>>Nobody fears short introverted asians

You mean like Bruce Lee? He probably wasn't all that introverted, but he had a lot of demons he never talked about.

J'Lo, no that other one

Oh yea, Bruce Lee was the man.

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"Put your head up to my heart, hear me live and follow suit, this will all be over soon, it's gonna hurt a little." -Emberghost

it does have an effect on the person you're linking too... albeit a very very small one


Souv

xxxx is teaching a class on advanced (compared to what you already know) empathy, and there appears to be room in it. You are in this class!

Huzzah!

I like the idea. Insta-link on the receiving end, round time for the empath. (as long as we're talking deep links, not heal-you links) The syntax is annoying. I always kept forgetting so now I have a trigger for when Khary tires to link, its just easier to type YES than whatever the real syntax is.

>it does have an effect on the person you're linking too... albeit a very very small one
Just the insane RT from what I've noticed, or am I missing something?

~Ranger Hanryu
>I had a two-year-old ferret. I also owned a baby boy. Then, after locking the baby boy in a taped-up box for two days, with no food and water and bringing him out periodicaly to beat him with a stick while wearing a ferret mask...~LINKRJH

<<The syntax is annoying. I always kept forgetting so now I have a trigger for when Khary tires to link, its just easier to type YES than whatever the real syntax is.>>

It's -link person- which sounds easy enough, but would be nice if establishing the link request actually gave syntax akin to the request to teach.

I've always felt there should be more instruction on the receiving end. It doesn't actually tell the person that you have to [Link <empath>] which is annoying. I always just whisper to the person the syntax they should use after they've agreed to link with me.

~Chris

Thanks Obs. This came up a good while ago as I recall, glad to hear it's still on the burners.

The negative affect to the person being linked to is relative on the skill gap between two said persons.

So linking people closer to your skill level (I think no more than 50-75 ranks if I recall) shouldn't have any adverse side affects to any party.

However, that is based on messaging, where the person being linked to won't be getting a "you feel not as smart in DeathMonkeySummoning"; there may still be detrimental affects not signaled by message.

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"Put your head up to my heart, hear me live and follow suit, this will all be over soon, it's gonna hurt a little." -Emberghost