# Excessive skill gains at higher levels

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/excessive-skill-gains-at-higher-levels/2732>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [August 17, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/excessive-skill-gains-at-higher-levels/2732 "2013-08-17T22:33:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![HeadWar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/headwar/32/2685_2.png) [@HeadWar](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HeadWar)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/excessive-skill-gains-at-higher-levels/2732/1 "2013-08-17T22:33:23Z")

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Stable release. It seems that once you hit 20 or so in a skill, it starts increasing at a crazy rate. I do use my car for clearing out towns of zombies, and also tend to drive through swarms of swamp critters at 200 km/h, which means I spend a fair amount of time repairing my car, but I’m up to 77 in mechanic now. You’d think that skill gain would get progressively slower and slower, and up to a point I think it does, but it seems that there is a hump somewhere, and after that it starts increasing really fast again.

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**Author:** ![Zireael](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zireael/32/956_2.png) [@Zireael](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zireael)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 8:29am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/excessive-skill-gains-at-higher-levels/2732/2 "2013-08-18T08:29:11Z")

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I think you’re not supposed to go above 20 in a skill, that’s why it goes nuts.

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**Author:** ![CIB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/cib/32/903_2.png) [@CIB](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/CIB)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/excessive-skill-gains-at-higher-levels/2732/3 "2013-08-18T16:04:49Z")

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Did you get to that level naturally or with debug?

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**Author:** ![HeadWar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/headwar/32/2685_2.png) [@HeadWar](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HeadWar)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/excessive-skill-gains-at-higher-levels/2732/4 "2013-08-18T20:16:39Z")

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No debugs of any kind, no mods, just playing the stable release. (For a long time.)