Originally posted by Schrompf:

I'm quite tired of all the people coming up with excuses why *they* personally think that skill loss is fine and how exactly the game is supposed to be played *by everyone*.

I play this with my friends. We have a private pw-protected server, and we spend some time together in this game at late evening after job is done, house chores are done, children were put to sleep, mails and letters are handled... you get the point. We have a few hours, once or twice per week. And because of this silly skill loss we'll probably never hit lvl20 in any skill except maybe wood chopping. And simple server-side bool would make this bearable. Maybe I can actually sneak up to a Draugr if I get to lvl50, who knows? I'll never know, not with the current skill loss mechanics.

But you all spittle and jammer like it would be the game's demise to have the *option*.

Sure having an easy option wouldn't hurt, but I've never even needed lvl 20 in anything I just play the game and do fine without it so actually idk why experience is even a big deal in the first place.