First Aid Strategy
Textbooks and compendiums allow a character to read a book to learn first aid and scholarship skills. Using information stored on Elanthipedia we know approximately how much scholarship is required for each chart. However, just because a character can read a chart does not mean they should study that one. Charts are most effective when read in quick succession with less than 20 sec. Roundtime. The ideal range would include a handful of 15-18 second reads/attempts then a string of 10-15 sec. complete reads that "suddenly make sense."
Factors in successfully reading a chart and how much experience is gained is based on scholarship, first aid, and mental stats with the precise formula unknown. It is through much testing that a selection scale has evolved and been integrated in the first-aid.lic script.
The First Aid Strategy is to capture the character's actual scholarship then modify it on a sliding scale and select charts based on that effective scholarship number. Below is the default scale built into first-aid.lic.
Actual Scholarship - Modifer = Effective Scholarship for Chart Selection
If a character is still struggling to learn first aid and/or scholarship due to an imbalance between the two, further options are available. Only use these if you thoroughly understand the modifier scale.
# Allows selection of quantity of charts to read.
number_of_firstaid_charts: 25
# Allows manually defining the Effective Scholarship Modifier scale
firstaid_scholarship_modifier: 200
Adjusting the modifier to a smaller number would select higher ranked charts where a larger number would select lower ranked charts based on Elanthipedia Anatomy Chart data. The most difficult chart is selected first then reduced in difficulty with each page turn.
For example:
Actual scholarship (500) - Modifier (200) = Effective Scholarship (300) begins at Granite Gargoyle then Black Goblin
Actual scholarship (500) - Modifier (220) = Effective Scholarship (280) begins at Gidii then Wood Troll
