Ability (AcademyCraft)

"Alter the reality with your personal reality"

- Official AcademyCraft Website

The Ability (sometimes refers as Superability [sic], i.e. Psi) System is the core content of. With the help of various abilities, the player can do things that were impossible in vanilla Minecraft, most notably area-of-effect attack abilities and defense abilities.

Terminology

 * Level: The player's overall ability level, divided into 5 different levels, denoted from Level 1 to Level 5. It can be abbreviated as Lv.0 ~ Lv.5. Different abilities requires different Levels to learn.
 * Skill Experience: The player's experience in any given ability, i.e. how well the player uses an ability. An ability's skill experience will increase as players keep using them. It is also required for skill tree progression.
 * Milestone: Certain stage(s) of Skill Experience. When a milestone is reached, the ability will increase in power.
 * CP: the Calculation Power. According to the mod settings, "...In order to interferer [sic], or change, the nature of world, players need enough Calculation Power (abbr. CP) to warp the reality." CP is the resource depleted when using an ability. Each time player performs an ability, CP will be consumed. Player cannot use any abilities when CP is too low. CP will regenerate as time passes.
 * Overload: How players' capability are loaded as they keep using abilities. Each time a player uses an ability, the player's overload level will increase. The player can only use abilities with Overload at a certain threshold; otherwise, the player cannot perform ability. Overload can be reduced as time goes by.
 * Sync Rate: The required energy for the player to learn an ability. Higher sync rate is inversely proportional to required IF.

Ability Category
Every ability belongs to only one "category". So far, all abilities in AcademyCraft are categorized into four categories:

Vector Manipulator
However, there are exceptions: Brain Course, Brain Course Advanced [sic], and Mind Course. These appear in all four ability categories, and aim to increase the maximum CP value and the overload limit.

Machines
In order to acquire and perform abilities, several machines are required.

Ability Developer
Ability Developers are the devices that help players to learn abilities. Generally speaking, the only difference among those three developers are Sync Rate. As such, it is better to use a developer with higher Sync Rate due to its higher efficiency. Beside Sync Rate, some of those three developers have some unique features: the Portable Developer is the only developer that features as an item; while the Advanced Ability Developer is the only developer that can support Ability Override.

Wireless Energy Network
All three Ability Developers are IF consumers, as learning abilities consumes a significant amount of energy. Therefore, a stable energy supply is necessary for ability learning.

Ability Interferer
In a Minecraft server, a server owner may not want some abilities to create mess in a certain area. This can be realized by using the Ability Interferer, which prevents abilities from being used in a given area.

Progression
The progression in AcademyCraft features as the effort of becoming more and more skilled in a certain ability category. Players are expected to keep using their learned abilities so that the potential in their brain can be realized, unlocking more powerful abilities. Without using cheat commands, there is no other way to work around Skill Experience.