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K its working.
It does indeed take 1/2 the xp to level up a specialized skill.
But it still takes 100 (not 50) xp for the first level.
I assumed it would be 50, and when it wasn't I threw the whole hypothesis out.

The world is whole once again!

I just tested again: confirmed not working for Red Magic.
Me and my brother are getting the same for Run and Swim, which he has specialized and I don't.
I believe we used Throwing to test it the first time, so now we are 0/4 on having an xp difference.

Specialized skills don't provide double experience as advertised.
As much as I hope that would be a simple bug fix, would it be possible to have the skill points refunded?
This is on Dredge.
Please Mickey, I just want to be addicted again.
Also, my younger brother is going to quit if he has to reroll his character to get those skill points back.

Please don't tear my family apart.

1000 million is a milliard, not a billion.

Maybe make Damon fall into the mine, so meteor above ground with monsters (were they called voorgs?) And below ground with monsters, and 1 Damon spot that needs mined.

Ender's game is boss, is just read it for the third time last week.

But I like the idea of having different views, but try to make someone controlling a strategic view not blind to their tactical view.  People are that absorbed in what they are doing.

I say items should be in the right and left hand slots (where you would also put swords and shields).  You can craft a max of two items together in your inventory, three when one is on the ground, 4 with special crafting tables (anvil, workbench...)
Allow a hotkey that puts the hovered over item into one of your hand slots.

Magic:
This is an idea I thought about a long time ago and have been fiddling with since.
Basically use runes, words and if "elementals" are ingredients/reagents, use those too.
Basically, if you say the words (Ancient Language xor English) the spell will be cast on your target, or maybe make it so you type the name of the target in the spell somewhere, which, now that I think about it, wouldn't work for targeting cows.
Runes are essentially stored spells.  First you smelt a blank rune, then you use magic combined with blacksmithing to lock a spell inside the rune, give it like 20 uses that increases as your ability to cast the spell increases.  Creating runes would be more difficult than casting the spell, but with a rune, casting a spell becomes very easy.  Runes could then be put into traps to make spell traps.
Add "magic circles," structures that players can make in their houses that, when standing on, allows a mage to focus their magic and cast more difficult spells, but if the spell is difficult for them it would take more time to cast it, this would encourage wizards to prepare their spells before going off and adventuring.
I would also like to see more cooperative spell-casting abilities. That is if two mages are together they can cooperatively cast a difficult spell, or cast an easy spell with more strength.

There could also be natural structures (made by NPC's or whatnot) that boost magical abilities.  This would make mages have pilgrimages to a far off place so they can learn a new spell or something.

Not directly related to magic, but experience sharing would be nice. A mage can assist a warrior by healing and buffing him, which normally gives too little experience to be viable. With xp-sharing you might see a lot more of this.

Overall the best thing would be finding a way to keep the magic words secretive, but that is probably impossible. (Maybe make it so an NPC or an object (writing on a cave wall) must tell you the magic words before you can use them.)

I would rather have the different weapons be split into different skills, but have all the weapons trained at character creation.

I macro'd.
I macro'd so much that it is probably the primary reason I am going to major in computer science.