And Vauxy, no video game in the world should require research prior to playing. They're supposed to be self-contained media.
Is that why they sell strategy guides?
Strategy guides are for wusses. Anyway, yeah, I should not have to do research just to play a game. That's pretty dumb.
Regardless, Snupes should have known that not putting Shortsword/Dagger into your primary or secondary skills would be a bad idea if you plan on using such a weapon. Oblivion had pretty much the same mechanics. I was under the impression that she has played Oblivion.
I did. Many, many years ago. Eight, to be specific. I was a kid, and anything was fun at the time. Also, you're wrong, because in Oblivion you could still level up your non-primary-or-secondary dagger skill while...you know...actually hitting things. Whereas in Morrowind if it's not primary, you're going to get one in every 20349 hits. This makes it a, to use the technical term, "massive pain in the ass" to level it. I never had a problem with leveling things in Oblivion because not setting them as a primary stat didn't render them basically non-functional.
That said, if Oblivion's leveling system for non-primary-or-secondary was as much of a pain in the ass as Morrowind's (which I highly doubt for the reasons stated, but) then disregard my mention of Oblivion, because that's not a game I'm about to defend.
I don't think I've ever actually tried using a weapon for which my skill is only 5 or 10. I just created a character to test it out. My short blade skill was 5 and my agility was only 30. With an iron dagger, I was able to kill a mudcrab in six swings (three of them connected). Then I fought a rat and gave up somewhere around the 110th swing (four hits had connected and the rat was still at half health). I can see how that might be a problem. I began both fights with full fatigue. What an oxymoron. I'm glad they changed "fatigue" to "stamina".
Yes! I'm glad you can at least kind of see my problem, then. I didn't realize it would have
that severe an impact on my skills. Sure, "dun be ratarded" and "git gud" and stuff is absolutely wonderful and helpful advice, but still, I did not estimate that severe a disability from it (especially since I didn't have it as low as 5 or 10 and had a bit higher agility).