>>My thought is that this would allow people who wish to train the skill beyond the minimum grandfathered ranks to do so, and perhaps mitigate the impact of having a skill released which many people would likely have trained beyond the minimums had the skill been previously trainable.

The unfortunate flipside of this is that there will be a lot of people that neglect the skill and either can't circle without teaching (if we leave it as a requirement) or circle and leave it behind in the dust, meaning that we need to do special grandfathering eventually anyway for these folks.

In general I think it's a less-confusing world if the skills are invisible (except for in EXP ALL 0) until there are systems to support them. At that time, we can assess if there's a good way to tell if people should be grandfathered above their min reqs. Since these are primary skills and have primary-level requirements, AND since most people need primary skills to circle most of the time, I don't think the discrepancy will be too bad.

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