Hoshiqua wrote:You don't need to. If you want to make a skill independant, just set the parent as 0, not null. Look at the first skills in the skill lines or the independant skills, you'll see how they are laid out..
But it has to be done both server AND client side in order for it to work properly.
It may have worked this way in the past, but I can confirm that by setting the server side XML parent to 0, and the database skill_type.Parent to <null>, I can use those skills even though I do not have the parent skill. In the skillbook they are also active.
I've found that setting the client xml file to 0 causes skills to appear on new lines in the skill book.
Again, the only time this is not the case, is on character creation, where the error is thrown when it attempts to add the second tier skill and the skill_type.Parent value is <null>