ok thanks i got that all running the right way but now i am stuck with another problem.... i want to have the choices made in the skill selections to be saved, and printed both to the screen and the text files, i have talked to a few of my friends and they said the switch case isn't the best way to acheive this, so i guess my code will change a lot more now. I was just wondering if anyone could explain a way to do this, or point me to a good tutorial on the subject. thanks for all the help this far