[cbodmer]

Line 960 in world/client.cpp:

        // Racial Languages
        SetRacialLanguages( &pp ); // bUsh
        SetRaceStartingSkills( &pp ); // bUsh
        SetClassStartingSkills( &pp ); // bUsh
        pp.skills[SENSE_HEADING + 1] = 200;

At least on my setup using the latest release (871/2006-10-22), this sets Singing to 200 rather than sense heading.

Changed it to:

        pp.skills[SENSE_HEADING] = 200;

and this sets sense heading correctly for the newly created character.

Once that is working as it should, the following "optimization" to zone/client.cpp seems appropriate:

Line 1663 in zone/client.cpp:

bool Client::CheckIncreaseSkill(int skillid, int chancemodi) {
        if (IsAIControlled()) // no skillups while chamred =p
                return false;
        if (skillid > HIGHEST_SKILL)
                return false;
        if (skillid == SENSE_HEADING)
                return false;

Since sense heading is maxed anyway, we don't need to do a skill gain check on it.

Cheers,
-Chris