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Ok, fine. But explain why a heavy gambler should not develop his gambling skills at the expense of other skills. Yes, lovely. But from a gameplay point of view, this sort of "practise" is stupid to encourage because it becomes a stupid and boring click-fest. If you want your character to...

Haven't you just explained why is isn't important enough to be a skill though? I think so... You fail to explain why it would be important to allow this type of play. If you want a sandbox mode, why don't you just ask for it? I'm not saying that you should ignore it, just that you don't...

If you do it a lot, then it becomes an important skill. Besides, like I said, it's up to the game designers to give skills equal utility. Flawed level design != flawed game system. Furthermore, I don't see why gambling can't just be reduced to a Luck check... There's no reason why that should...

Of course skills aren't used in the same proportions by all players. Diplomats may never use fighting skills, for example. The biggest problem I can come up with is that sometimes skills are used without the player choosing to (ie traps, outdoorsman etc). For this method of skill progression to...

It seems to me that the problem could be solved with a compromise: The character earns skillpoints as he earns experience (although this is probably hidden from the player) and these are allocated on the basis of use, with the chance of a skill point being allocated for a given successful action...