I mentioned this idea in the shoutbox where it was liked and suggested I post here.

I wish I could raise my pet's intelligence by sending them to school much like I already send mine to training. So I'd get to press a button and she'd be smarter in an hour instead of having to shop for books all the time.

Core297 added to my idea: Have different tiers with their own caps for intelligence and cost gradually more as you go up. could be called elementary, middle, high, and college. Possibly have it tie into the job center.

This should totally be a thing. Like I said, having different "tiers" of schooling the costs more and more, but have higher and higher caps.

But possibly still have it fairly expensive to start, to balance out using books as well, or have books potentially teach more or something like that so they aren't made obsolete for raising a pet's intelligence.

This would be unfair for the users who have put a lot of expense and effort into reading books. What about the Pet Statistics page? Those people earned their way to the top the hard way.

I'm sure the battle community in particular will have a lot of insight on this.

Seriously though, we have system set up for how intel works, and it's tied into a lot (AP), it wouldn't make any sense to reinvent this system and rebalance it. That's a nightmare waiting to happen. Plus, what you're suggesting is basically a dumbed down version of the training center, so I see no reason to waste programming resources on it. On another note, you can already get intel in many ways aside from books, do we really need another? Boosters, Jobs, Mystic Spindles...

I actually kinda like this idea...but how well are people going to take to this idea? They're not. They're going to hate it, bash it, trash it, simply because most of them live by 'If it's not broke, don't fix it'. That and it's a new idea, and they don't like that.

and you have my support if it actually becomes a thing, but don't get your hopes up, darlings.

I'm quickly running out of affordable books to read to my main battle pet, so I wouldn't mind a training session for intel.

come give your two cents because it'll be grand.

I think it's a good idea, given that you already have XXX amount of intel. Like you can't just use it in lieu of books. You need to read to your pets and have some sort of pre-decided upon amount of books read before you can enter the school. And perhaps even a limited amount of times you can go to school even. Like three times a week or once every 48 hrs or something.

The Int/AP system is already broken, in that you can't get APs without reading a book to your pet at the exact right time (as opposed to boosters, jobs or mystic spindles). Adding a school, which I'm pretty ambivalent about, would exacerbate this problem.

I really dont think there needs to be another system of earning intelligence for pets.

[User=qwertyjoker] covered the other methods, and I'm assumung that the site doesnt want to activetly increase the amount of intelligence that pets can quickly earn.

Anyways, raising your pet's Intel is not difficult. Lots of books are massively deflated now, and while there are some you may never get, new books are always being released. Besides, to actively train a single stat like that would just be a slap in the face to those who have poured billions of sPs, time and pure dedication into raising their pet.

I dont think this is a good idea.

Unless it somehow becomes part of the training center. IE if you "go to school/train intel" you CAN"T train strength/health/etc.

Also, if implemented the timer in the intel school needs to be long, like multiple days - a week long. Which probably makes it pointless for being implemented.

I'm really sad I didn't get the battle ping to this jewel because, fantastic. Fantastic.

For the record, the term "reinventing the wheel" exists for a reason, and I feel like there are enough things on subeta that legitimately need to be fixed opposed to our current intel system.

One can easily, easily, get at least 500 books for under 100k a pop. If you need more intel than that, then you're either:

1. Aiming for the book highscore table, and therefore should be willing to pay a lot for a lot of books.
2. Aiming for the intel highscore table, and therefore +1 intel an hour isn't going to help you when every single pet in that top 100 is going to be enrolling every hour on the hour, too. or 3) You're becoming a battler, and congrats! You have picked up a very expensive hobby and if you're concerned with the cost of a book then you're about to have a really bad time.

Also I don't see how hard it is to remember the 16th point has to be a book or you won't gain AP? 15 intel via whatever method you want, 1 book. This is not random, it never changes. The only time it might not work is if you read the book to a pet at :00:00 subeta time because the site eats things that happen at 0 after the hour, but otherwise this is set in stone.

No support.

Actually, I could see this as in integration thing: People who built their pets up the hard way don't have to resent the new school idea. I mean, what the hell do you do in school if not read books and do assignments?

Balancing would simply be a matter of having "required reading" in order to enter the next level of school (or have them read to your pet before graduation, IDK...).

So pets who are already built way up on books would be able to go through school much easier, their intelligence raising would be more of a supplemental boost.

Pets who haven't read books can be read books and then go to school to boost their Int a few points father. Starting at common books and working to rarer books the higher the education.

Consider also that it wouldn't be that much of a nightmare to simply have the crystal shop/token shop put out the rarer books a bit more often.

Not sure how I should respond to this post. I'm obviously a huge noob to subeta discourse. "Ideas from shoutbox are probably bad", Metroid? Is that what you are saying? That doesn't seem fair. Try to evaluate an idea based on it's merit is my suggestion.

I liked Alkuna's and LemonWicky's posts.

Edit: It also seemed like Subeta University would be very cute and fun potentially.

Way to assume she knows all the ins and outs of the site, thanks for the needless sarcasm!

I am not sure I like this idea. We already have the Training Center for Level, Speed, Strength, Health, and Defense. If this happens, then what is the point of the countless books here? They would become useless because the main use of books is to make your pet read them to gain intelligence. No one would buy them in usershops anymore, not even buying them from the main shops. We already have enough useless items like home decor and computer parts. We dont need the thousand books to become useless too.

Look at all those ways to raise intel and tell me we need 'school'. Even if this idea didn't piss all over people who've spent hundreds of millions raising their pets intel, I'd still be against it because it's just unnecessary.

it's a cute idea in theory, but rather unnecessary in practice. i just don't see a lot of good coming from reinventing the intel system this late in the game, especially when the site is in such unstable condition as is.

People should know as much as they can about a Subeta subject before they go about trying to make changes though, no?