<div id="post_message_27071">It's on our request list to give Diplomacy an experience bar. This would make my explanations a lot easier.

For instance, I can say:

To hit skill 410, you need to have earned 908,831,475 diplomacy experience.

That's not terribly relevant to you all, even if I mention that at skill 410, you get 7,436,052 experience per successful parley against a skill 410 opponent.

It's for this reason that I've been somewhat reticent about how the skill-gain process works. We are working on transparency for the experience point process.

On another note, it appears some of you (a VERY small percentage of the Diplomacy population -