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So I've run into this problem...

Stat gain has seemed to stop on my server at 90 and I'm wondering if there's somewhere I need to be looking other than the sphere_skills.scp?

My testing involved simply macroing skills, standing in place, using Razor. I created a new character and let the macro run.

For example, one of the macros was Hiding. I was watching it throughout the day and found the skill to be primarily giving gains for DEX and secondarily giving gains in INT. This was expected, however, when DEX hit 90, all gains for DEX stopped (while INT continued to gain).

I then locked the INT gains to see what (if anything) would happen. I observed no gains after an hour or so more of macroing. I then got on a GM account and lowered the toon's Hiding skill (but did not touch the stats) and began macroing again. I let the macro run for about 8 hours, which maxed out the skill but not a single stat in DEX was gained.

I then tried casting clumsy on that character while they were macroing to try and artificially lower the stat to try and prompt more gains (as this had been an old technique I had used waaaay back in the day when playing on other servers) just to test results. The result of this was also 0 gains.

I know that the sphere_skills.scp script primarily defines the gain rate of skills, but it does have the "Generic advance rates for stats." Is this the only area to modify stats?

If it matters, I'm using Sphere .56b pre-release and WAS using the sphere_skills.scp from the pre-release script pack but have since replaced that with the sphere_skills.scp from the nightly since that has corrected a SKILL gain issue, but has not corrected the STAT gain issue.

Please note that this stat gain problem was apparent when using both versions of sphere_skills.scp.