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In article <1992Nov23.005032.11830@alf.uib.no> magnus@ii.uib.no writes:
>>>>>> On Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:43:12 GMT, dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David
>>>>>> Lamb) said:
>	David> 1. The "spreading experience up the tree" thing is very
>	David> hard to manage by hand.  I've had to write a program to
>	David> help people do it.
>
>Really? I suppose a non-deep tree would prevent this problem? It's
>tempting to organize it really prettily in a very-deep tree, but a
>wide one might be a lot smarter, as many branches are only used in
>some genres.
>

The issue is: when you spread experience up the tree, you improve
parent skills, which in turn improves ALL sibling/cousin/etc. skills.
Thus: some root skill R has children (say) R.1 to R.5, each of which
has children .1 to (say) .5 in turn.  You advance in R.1.1, which in
turn causes you to advance in R.1, which in turn advances R.  Now you
wind up improving all 5 R.x and 25 R.x.y skills.  So what started as
"improve 1 skill" winds up requiring that you (potentially) change
numbers in 31 related skills.  The only thing that saves you when you
do it "by hand" is that you can ignore sibling skills in which you
haven't sunk any experience - they default to the value for their
parent.