did they have that new skill system in Testing?
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Yes it was in place for 249 along with some new/added skills.
Roughly 350 skill points on a single page. Im not digging but I think if you added skill pages you could also re-use the points on each page which would help with early game flexibility, since the leveling curve was a bit longer.
You are correct you can reuse skill points across all skill pages in test version 249
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SO! I expect this will be the first thing we get when the updates resume???
And what would this mean for those of us with enormously large numbers of levels already?
No. At least, not necessarily.
Monumental has indicated that they have different priorities from wonderstruck, and will address those priorities when/as development begins.
Specifically the response was that their current top priority will focus around NPE and monetization, with implementing some or any of the features from 249 being lower priority.
Being that TONS of people have wanted some melee activity and most of the work there is done, I hope that as a matter of retention and offering more features to monetize on it will get some priority.
I’m not sure how they will view the changes to the skill system 
At around 1400 levels you would be able to immediately max out your skills on the new system. Sorry I have the forum open in a tab so I’m getting notifications but deep digging for the actual numbers (they are on the forum) isn’t a priority atm. The info is here though probably in the release 249 thread as well as scattered around a bit.
At that point you could basically have all non-conflicting skills, including melee mastery and the new coloring skills on a single page.
Finally, you could just go ahead and do pretty much everything without switching skill pages.
Oh how I wish it were real now XD
All this switching makes my head hurt. I also need them to fix hit detection when it comes to hookshot mishaps, hit damage should only count when falling, not flying into walls.
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NEW SOLO SKILL TREE
- We have made major changes to the Skill cap and progression system in the game.
- To allow a solo player to craft all items we’ve updated the skill tree to allow characters to unlock all independent skills.
- The skill cap is now 359 Skill Points.
- We have removed alternative selection links for many linked Epic Skills. These changes are to allow players the freedom to use a single character for all areas of the game. However we have retained Epic links to create DPS, Tank or Healer characters in combat.
- Players will receive 2 Skill Points per level until level 180.
- Skill points are now no longer shared between skill pages. Meaning the player can spend their max points in each page.
- XP required per level continues to increase between level 50 and level 180.
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is 180 the max out level for skill points?
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it seems to be the case - any further acquiring of skill points wouldn’t make sense as the extra points are not needed for skill pages anymore in the proposed system; one gets the final 359 at level 180 and can spent all 359 in any skill page paid for with cubits (and need for skill pages is limited to having different hunting profiles and maybe role playing or continuing with ones bought in the old system)
now the other question is, how do I rake in additional cubits after that? I have so many plots I know I will need later.
leveling keeps going after that 180, only skill points are not given then, I suppose
cubits remain unchanged as I understand- meaning they are earned indefinitely (same for cleanse points);
no mention of them so its only skill points and pages that are the focus of the changes
After you’ve maxed your levels, the chests only contain cubits.
It looks like they’re not dropping cleanse points after you max either.
Hmmmm 
This guy can’t get out of sanctum but he’s not maxed and his chests don’t show cleanse points either.
EDIT: well I went ahead and opened those chests and TBH each gave a cleanse point. In that codebase the description is just wrong.
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was thinking that when answering above
it only makes sense as the only use would be for switching between hunting epics
some tinkering after level 20 and before maxing all skills out could be a thing too, but in general it seems unneeded
Lol just read the last bit. Still I wouldn’t be surprised or unhappy if they get rid of them cleanse points and they could throw the reset token out the window too for good measure, as they lost half of its value after introducing free reskilling until level 20 and with full maxing out possible in the new system they will become almost fully redundant
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I had to dig for this which I’ve been wanting to do anyways since I sometimes reference this comment and wanted to be able to link to it properly.
There’s no promise that any of the features from release 249 will ever go live. It’s certainly not top (or even ‘high’) priority.
Personally I still think wonderstruck was shooting themselves in the foot (again) with the private server thing. But since they had gone to huge monolithic updates all these features are integrated and any new team would have to sort out how to separate the existing code and re-integrate it with what’s live before they could bring on any of these features piecemeal.
I have no idea what sort of source control they used or how the codebase looks so that’s just pure conjecture on my part, of course.
But I believe we will see other changes and perhaps even entirely new features added before we see any of what was in release 249.
I mention it whenever the conversation turns to people waiting on those features because it seems like there’s a vague expectation that getting that out will happen when there’s a new team (I was hoping for this too) but that expectation is likely to lead to some disappointment.
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I am patient at least. very patient.
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I think the safest assumption to make is that the game will never get any updates. 
That seems to be reality.
then that would be an utter waste of buying the game.
Tax writeoffs have their value. 
anyone who is in the acquisition business for the tax writeoffs is bound to get bankrupted in short order. There is a plan, and it’s going to pay off or this game is shutting down.