This isn’t a bug, but it’s something I want to draw attention to as a problem anyway. For starters, I am on the autism spectrum. That is important to the rest of this post.
I am still relatively new to the game, but I am definitely long past the point when most people get the psychology skill. I started wondering about that, and what I missed that would have gotten me that skill. The wiki simply says that it is in the tutorial cave. I suppose I should not give extra spoilers here, so instead I will just say that I was not at all able to get it. Eventually a friend of mine gave me the answer, and I realized I never would have gotten it on my own. Not due to lack of exploration, but because I would never have made the connection of what I needed to do. Not ever. My brain simply does not work that way and never will, and it was extremely upsetting to me to see the very first ‘quest’ (in quotation marks because it is not presented as the other quests are, which is part of what made it impossible for me) was so unfriendly to me, for reasons which are not my fault.
I’ve been told that there is an alternative way to get it, which involves buying it in another town. However, that just feels like being punished for being different, and not being able to make the types of connections that non-autistic people can. I don’t know how much anyone actually cares about making the game spectrum friendly, but just in case someone does, I figured I’d mention that this part really is not.
On a side note, in terms of sensory friendly. These forums are not. I felt physically ill within a few seconds of first hitting the link to these forums, due to the unstoppable slideshow. Sometimes I could scroll down past it, but sometimes I could not. Things like that are also very unpleasant for me or anyone with sensory processing difficulties, and can make certain websites impossible for me to visit (at least for more than a few seconds at a time). (The first thing I did when I created an account was change my theme to try to get away from anything animated, but the fact that it's the first thing anyone sees is not very nice to people with sensory processing difficulties)
I am still relatively new to the game, but I am definitely long past the point when most people get the psychology skill. I started wondering about that, and what I missed that would have gotten me that skill. The wiki simply says that it is in the tutorial cave. I suppose I should not give extra spoilers here, so instead I will just say that I was not at all able to get it. Eventually a friend of mine gave me the answer, and I realized I never would have gotten it on my own. Not due to lack of exploration, but because I would never have made the connection of what I needed to do. Not ever. My brain simply does not work that way and never will, and it was extremely upsetting to me to see the very first ‘quest’ (in quotation marks because it is not presented as the other quests are, which is part of what made it impossible for me) was so unfriendly to me, for reasons which are not my fault.
I’ve been told that there is an alternative way to get it, which involves buying it in another town. However, that just feels like being punished for being different, and not being able to make the types of connections that non-autistic people can. I don’t know how much anyone actually cares about making the game spectrum friendly, but just in case someone does, I figured I’d mention that this part really is not.
On a side note, in terms of sensory friendly. These forums are not. I felt physically ill within a few seconds of first hitting the link to these forums, due to the unstoppable slideshow. Sometimes I could scroll down past it, but sometimes I could not. Things like that are also very unpleasant for me or anyone with sensory processing difficulties, and can make certain websites impossible for me to visit (at least for more than a few seconds at a time). (The first thing I did when I created an account was change my theme to try to get away from anything animated, but the fact that it's the first thing anyone sees is not very nice to people with sensory processing difficulties)