[lugaid]

One thing that I've decided to start doing about higher skill levels is require an appropriate Reputation, or else an explanation (with appropriate Advantages or Disadvantages, such as Unusual Backgrounds or Secrets or whatever) as to why such remarkable skill levels aren't widely known. Sure, a Reputation can be worked to end up with a 0-point value, but that does mean that there will be negative Reaction modifiers, not even counting the simple recognition the character will get from appropriate audiences. If a character comes into the game with Spear-27 (beyond the level of "mythic masters, bordering on the cinematic", so beyond some plausible interpretations of Miyamoto Musashi), I want to know how that fits into the setting and what it means for the character and those the character meets. Plus, of course, all of that Skill Maintenance will be enforced on the Weekly Time Sheet, as others have noted.