yeah, i agree, it takes more work to level up the real way, and its more fun. the spell i made marked the level i was at once i started that trick, though i had paid very handsomely for training of security once it was at 100 (using ash yams-drain intelligence) since the 50s area

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Hmm...the exploits are hard to classify, they're not out and out cheating, but at the same time I wouldn't quite call them legit. Whatever, different things work for different people.

again depends on personal preference

for me the drain skill trick isn't cheating...just a cheaper and infact longer way of training up and skills don't go over maximum limit but does aid to levelling

the soultrap glitch though is cheating since you are increasing your stats way over their maximum limit permanently

the alchemy trick where you fortify stats over the maximum limit is inbetween cheating and non-cheating mainly because it does exactly what the soultrap glitch does but it wears off after awhile...unless you make potions with intelligence at around 10000 then it will last for awhile

though I have made videos on the PC version to show how you do it...on that I only fortified my intelligence to 1000 by console command so it was easier to show how to use alchemy...I then fortified INT from 1000 to around 5000 by drinking around 10 or so potions all doing around 100-400pts each for 500 or so seconds

Like I said, different things work for different people. Which is agreeing with your point, best I can tell.