Campsites are also the place where we can spend whatever skill points we acquire as Lara gains experience.

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This is a bit of an abstract example but the importance of diversifying skill points is not to be understated.

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Combat and quest completions provide skill points, which can be automatically assigned to preset builds (combat, survival and so on) or allocated manually.

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These choices can be character defining and could be extremely dangerous if taken at the wrong time, which is why a small number of skill refund points come to players naturally over the course of the game.

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At the end of the course, he determines the grade by points and skill level.

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As Mauboussin points out, the Paradox of Skill is a concrete way to describe the efficient market hypothesis.

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Mauboussin contends a pattern of inconsistency in an activity points to outcomes that are largely a result of luck, not skill.

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But what if you could give them their own currency, and the currency was all skill based, so the more successful they were in the game, the more points or gold that they earn, that character that they bought for eight dollars became a storehouse of all that value?

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The harder the skill, or the more tumbles and twists they pack into time-limited routines, the more points they rack up.

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The Green and Whites' points came courtesy of tries from Greig Tonks and Tim Streather but these scores came from glimpses of individual skill in what was collectively a disappointing performance.

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