One Room Schoolhouse

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Since that was the place in the West to get knowledge or learn anything, I was thinking it would be great to have a space where you could go to the schoolmarm to take a lesson and raise you knowledge in a skill just like a job.

Or having her be the guardian of the town library (since few towns had them, usually just a bookcase somewhere) with some books which you can study to learn more about how to improve your abilities or finding more ways to do the same tasks.
 

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So a little job training before the job. Would this be a temporary gain or forever? What would stop you from just staying in with the hot school teacher and learning ABC? If it is temporary, would this be too much like the temp bonus praying gives you?
 

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I see no use in that. People in the west didn't went to schools. There was only firearm ABC and thats all.
 

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uhmmm WRONG eliel.

Education has found place in informal ways since the beginning of socialisation.
 

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I did and still am going to school. Do you imangine a person who goes to school in the morning and bank robbing in the evening. Do you think that the teacher leaves them homework about opening vaults in the bank? I don't think so. Offcourse there were schools around, but not everyone went to them.
 

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eliel007 said:
I did and still am going to school. Do you imangine a person who goes to school in the morning and bank robbing in the evening. Do you think that the teacher leaves them homework about opening vaults in the bank? I don't think so. Offcourse there were schools around, but not everyone went to them.
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Sorry, but that's absolute rubbish. Children may not have gone much after the age of 14 or so, but they went if they lived anywhere remotely near a town. Walking 4 miles to school and back was not unusual. Lawlessness was NOT the default in the 'wild' West, or anywhere in the country, and they all wanted their children educated, even if it was just so that they could fill in their own claim paperwork when the time came to settle.

The West was a lot less random and unorganised than people realise - for every township and set of claims there was a school claim (with free hay for anyone who harvested it). There was a school board in every town. There were school inspectors who travelled the length and breadth of the country, including the unincorporated territories, and there were schools with only 2 pupils, in the middle of nowhere, just as there were schools with hundreds of pupils in the bigger cities.
 

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i like this idea but like Black Jack said you need to work on it a bit more.
 

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I know it needs fine-tuning, I just tossed it out there for discussion. Hadn't expected people to have THIS kind of discussion tho lol
 

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The majority of towns in the old west tried to have some sort of school. the children normaly went during the winter months and stayed home during the late spring and summer and early fall to help around the farm/ranch. most if luck went as high as the eighth grad which by todays standards would be a 12th grader. (you should see some of the test they took)

most of the schools were held in a church (little house on the prairei time) and were taught by the minister. Contray to popular TV westerns most of the teachers were men.
 

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The problem being, our characters are all adult. No children characters. So I don't see how the school would really make a difference here.
Instead of a school, make it a library. Adults use libraries. Then our characters can read up on a certain subject and gain a skill point by doing so.
 

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Celc Festus said:
The problem being, our characters are all adult. No children characters. So I don't see how the school would really make a difference here.
Instead of a school, make it a library. Adults use libraries. Then our characters can read up on a certain subject and gain a skill point by doing so.
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The adults went to schools too - usually at night or on Sundays, and usually organised around a specific theme so one winter there would be a singing school, the next spring there might be instruction in literature, or geography, or Bible readings, and so on. It really depended on what skills they had available in the town and what books they could get access to. It was more of a social activity than a genuine desire to learn, but it kept people occupied.

A library is a good idea though, they did swap books and papers (usually using the store or the church as a physical library). This was particularly useful for new farming methods and catalogues. In game, this could translate to learning a new skill/upping skills for a job by studying rather than working. (Upside: you might get a new skill quicker and for less energy; Downside: you don't get pay or items.)
 

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Librarys are not right fo the game. Maybe a smart indian shaman could teach you sometthing for a little charge.
 

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Ok ill try to look into schoolhouses a bit more.

Ok so i was thinking that since is educational you could learn how to use jobs wisely maybe taught by a good player with a certain lvl? who knows, maybe that would be a good experience. Or you could read a book or a very good guide on lvling in the house. Or maybe this could be a new skill called "knowledge" which could help you earn better xp and money when your working, and prevent you from endangering your character in them.

But i think in certain jobs you'd need god knowledge to get in so you'd at least have a chance of surviving, for example "guarding forts" could get dangerous if someone attacks you or strangles you from the behind, or cowboying when you could get shot at by a goon.
 

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School might be good to increase intelligence which would give you a certain percentage bonus on your skills.

Or just stay there with the School Marm! :) Wooo Hooo I'm stayin' after school with the teacher!
 
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