Editing Hex Editing - Guide (section)

==== 00 - Skill Specialty ====
The code for skill specialties works as follows: 
<span style="color:red">XXXXXXXX</span> D805 <span style="color:blue">YYYYYYYY</span> D8 4D FC
where <span style="color:red">XXXXXXXX</span> is a DWORD pointer to a 5% value (in IEEE-754), <span style="color:blue">YYYYYYYY</span> is a DWORD pointer to a value of 1 (again, in IEEE-754)

===== How it works ======
The number of levels is multiplied by the XXXXXXXX DWORD pointer, added to the YYYYYYYY DWORD pointer and then the skill bonus is multiplied by it (D8 4D FC). 

If we want to change the % gain per level, we only need to change the XX value. If we want to instead make the bonus additive (say x% per level, regardless of how much skill itself adds), we can replace the D805YYYYYYYY with 909090909090 (NOP) and replace the D8 4D FC with D8 45 FC. 

Therefore it is possible to have a different bonus for one skill than another. 

===== Offsets =====
The offsets for each skill specialty bonus are as follows: 
: Archery - 0x0E4420
: Armorer - 0x0E45C9
: Diplomacy - 0x0E483C
: Eagle Eye - 0x0E46E0
: Estates - 0x0E464F
: First Aid - 0x0E4BD9
: Intelligence - 0x0E4B69
: Leadership - 0x0E3C81
: Learning - 0x0E4AF9
: Logistics - 0x0E4F1E
: Luck - 0x0E3A2B
: Mysticism - 0x0E41FE
: Necromancy - 0x0E3F92
: Offense - 0x0E4569
: Resistance - 0x0E499C
: Scouting - 0x0E432E
: Sorcery - 0x0E5B61

===== Exceptions =====
Specialties for integer-bonuses (Luck, Logistics, Scouting) only have their effect when a full integer is gained from their % bonus. 

Diplomacy specialty only affects surrender costs. 

Learning specialty is fully over-writen by the Hota.dll.