Learning Skills: Where is my lesson going?

Dunatis

Maybe I'm being anal here, but I'm not able to buy credits or lessons for a short while. Thus, I'm having to plan out my learning. I've noticed that if I learn exactly what the game tells me I require to learn to achieve a skill, I actually need one more lesson every time to get the skill. Is there a reason behind this?

Kandra

The skills have a set amount of points to learn that are not actually a number of lessons. I think it's something like 60000. The lessons it tells you to learn is a 'best guess' scenario, and there might be just a few points left that one more lesson will more than cover.

Tecton

Yeah, unfortunately, there's some limitations to our engine that causes integers to round down to the nearest whole number - so it may take 35.5 lessons to get to the next ability, it'll say 35, then when you learn 35, it'll say that you need one more! It's something we're trying to improve in future versions of the engine.

Addama

Yeah, I've also noticed that I have to learn one more lesson than the AB thing says.

Nim

Tecton said:

Yeah, unfortunately, there's some limitations to our engine that causes integers to round down to the nearest whole number - so it may take 35.5 lessons to get to the next ability, it'll say 35, then when you learn 35, it'll say that you need one more! It's something we're trying to improve in future versions of the engine.

I'm curious - there should be several ways around this sort of issue even with only working with integers. Are they all categorically impossible?

Like, if the division is X/Y, doing (X+Y-1)/Y, or doing X/Y and adding 1 if X%Y isn't 0, etc.