Something to test
The use text talks about falling asleep. I wonder if you need the pep in your step effect active to get the skill.
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I got this skill with 15 perception, 16 will. The only piece of equipment that stood out to me was an etheric focus…
For completeness here's my equipment/stats/effects/skills. It's possible something ran out on the turn I used the book.
Hat: giant paper mache head
Weapon: spider drone leg
Offhand: Midgard riot shield
Shirt: light armored vest
Pants: reinforced pants
Gadget: etheric focus
Perception: 15
Reflexes: 16 (14)
Strength: 17 (12)
Will: 16
Slags Poisoning (3)
Bone Spikes (4)
Red Alert (19)
Coughing Fit (74)
Chess
Fae Eyes
Kingly Favor
Pugilism
Shadowy Presence
Kinak implied pretty clearly that there was a specific mechanism for getting it in a devblog post.
Quantum Mechanics and Walk With The Blind now have alternate ways to unlock them. The old ways are still there and probably easier, but the new ways are what intuitively should work
Presumably you can now get it by constantly reading the book, but presumably you couldn't before. (On my first run I'd read it ~100 times without getting it, for instance.)
I think it involves rereading over several days. I bought a second book (for some reason) and read it. I didn't get the skill. Read it again, and it told me something about being "unable to absorb much more of that for now" and I got the nap again. Over the next few days, I read it once a day, then today I read it twice, the second reading giving
You finally made it through! It was a hard slog, but you did it!
You're still not sure you really get it deep down, but you have a pretty solid understanding of the material.
You've learned a new Skill: Quantum Mechanics
You've earned 6 XP in Will
New run:
Stats: 6 (11)/6 (11)/5 (8)/4 (9) - end up crashing out face first on the book (1 XP Perc)
Stats: 8 (11)/8 (11)/6 (9)/6 (11) - pretty damned challenging (2 XP Perc) - with pep in my step
Stats: 8 (11)/8 (11)/6 (9)/7 (12) - pretty damned challenging (2 XP Perc) - with pep in my step
(more to come)
Warning! If you have exactly one energy of Pep In Your Step active, it decrements the effect before checking to see whether you have it active for purposes of making progress through the book. Kinak says he's comfortable with it working this way, so this is a feature, not a bug.
After failing due to the above, reading the same day, even with several energy of the effect active gave the message about not being able to absorb another dose of that. Given what Rykar says above, it might be worth trying twice a day after a while just to see if you got the skill. It may well work something along the same lines as what I now understand about how getting through CS110 works, namely that first you have to make a certain amount of progress. And than you have to use it one more time after you've gotten all the way through to get the skill.
Moved spading notes to discussion to clean up:
Notes
Reading this can eventually give you the Quantum Mechanics skill. Getting the "serious headway" message over several (4?) days seems to do it. It is also possible to get the skill straight off with just one reading. The trigger for this is unknown, but does not seem to be a matter of just stats, buffed or otherwise.
NOTE: This theory is undermined somewhat by the fact that I failed to get the skill with 15 (18 buffed) Perception.
NOTE: I didn't get the skill with a perception of 15 (24) and other stats pretty high. Having pep in your step active to avoid falling asleep doesn't help either. But there must be something other than buffed stats as the trigger.
NOTE: It's quite puzzling; 20(23) Perception doesn't get it either, so I agree that stats aren't the trigger. I thought my week-long etheric trip may have been preventing me from getting the skill, but I didn't get it when I came down either. Although perhaps etheric makes it impossible to concentrate? I used it at least ten times while high, probably more.
NOTE: 28 (35) Perception doesn't get it either. I've hardly ever used Eclipse. I've used the item a good 25 times or so. It's a little irritating.
NOTE: I just got it at 11(14) perception with etheric, while on the ghost ship.
NOTE: I just did not get it at Perception: 23 (26) while slag poisoned in Southside.
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