Forum:Skilled Trait Glitch? Please confirm

So I was playing the PS3 version of Fallout: New Vegas and I was thrilled over the Skilled trait. Picked it up, leveled as usual -- it's all cool. Then I decided that after picking up the outdoor vision perk that it was awful. So when I went to the "Rebuild character" option, I picked up Skilled again. And I was stunned when I saw how high my skills were -- with skilled, 7 intelligence and guns tagged, I could have gotten my Guns skill up to 50 at level 2.

Is this a glitch? Does picking up Skilled twice (once at start and once at Rebuild) stack the skill points twice? Please check and confirm, I'd like to know if this was just a lot of points in one skill.

Please remember to sign your post. I don't know... with an intelligence of 7 and no educated perk you would get 12 skill points for level. You add the tag, that's 15 points. Then you add skilled; that's another 5. That's 32 points right there. It seems plausible that you could start out with a guns skill of 18 before tagging the skill. I can't remember what the average start is for guns though; it's been so many hours since I've started a new play through. Hope this helps. --the last thing you never see-- Dopesmylez 14:58, July 26, 2011 (UTC)

Yep. If you pick skilled, then pick it again at the rebuild character option, you keep the skill points from when you first picked it. The negatives (-10% xp) does not double though, so you basically get +10 in all your skills at the cost of -10% xp. --Wiseman of the Wastes 10:54, July 28, 2011 (UTC)