Guilds > Global Mentoring > Schools And Universities

Schools

• Summary:
  • Schools teach "Skills".
  • Schools are prefixed 'S' on the map, followed by a shortened discipline title, eg, 'SArch' in the case of the School of Architecture.
  • Skills cost a one-off tuition fee to learn, and often have a level requirement.
  • Some skills are multi-level at one school (eg, Carving, which you can learn several levels of), and some skills are multi-level and staggered through various skills (such as Salvage Techniques, which you can pick up several levels of from various schools.

Schools teach skills in exchange for a tution, in the same system as on the Welcome Island. There is at least one school in each region for each Discipline, and often more in the cases of Art and Architecture.

Universities & Research

• Summary:
  • Universities teach 'techs'.
  • Researched 'techs' are free to learn by anybody who visits.
  • Available techs vary by region, depending on what the community has unlocked at their local University.
  • Techs become available 24 hours after the research requirements have been met.

When a new technology is announced, it becomes available for research at each university of a given type egypt-wide. For example, a message in the System channel might read "The scientists at the University of Architecture announce new research : Advanced Automation". The (sadly fictional) tech 'Advanced Automation' would then be available for research (note: not available to learn) in the UArch in each region.

Research comprises of mass donations from the community of resources related to the technology. For example, our fictional skill, 'Advanced Automation' might feasibly require many thousands of units of Iron as part of the requirements.

When all the of nescessary resources have been donated, research begins on the skill, and takes 24 hours to complete. After that 24 hour period, the skill is free to learn for anybody who visits (and meets the level [and any other] pre-requisits).

Note that some techs provide unique results per region, such as Botany, which results in a different flower base strain in each region.

Note also that some techs are not available until pre-requisite techs have been unlocked egypt-wide.