It would seem this is an issue with other general skills as well. Been practicing a bunch of skills with my new rogue as I level him, so far I've found that begging and fishing also seem to be level capped to the same 5 * level + 5 formula as swimming. I haven't been able to drink enough alcohol to keep up with the speed of my leveling so far, but I would imagine that might also be suffering from the same fate as the other non-sense heading general skills. This is definitely not classic behavior. All of the general skills should be capable of being taken up to 200 right from level 1 if you are crazy enough to take on the time sink of doing so. That was the case for all of them up through at least Shadows of Luclin, so that should be the setup adopted for Project 1999.
I was a bit crazy with skills with my old Barbarian warrior on live back during the Velious era, he had all of his general skills at 200 by the time he was 20-22. I remember going out of my way to do so. I spent a ton of hours working on his skills any time I was getting bored of the melee grind or was having troubles finding a group to fill the down time.
Just to be clear, by general skills I am talking about alcohol tolerance, begging, fishing, sense heading, and swimming. None of them had a per level cap during the eras in which Project 1999 is attempting to emulate, just the hard skill cap of 200 for each.
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