Though #1 and other tickets will create a lot of skills, care should be made to place them into as reasonable an tall a tree as possible. There may also be good reasons to generalize the application of these sorts of skills in case the cycles are available to offer animals (for example) the same AI as characters, enabling squirrels and bears to evolve and survive through development.
In fact, there isn't really anything that would prevent a user from occupying a squirrel if they wanted, instead of a character.
Though #1 and other tickets will create a lot of skills, care should be made to place them into as reasonable an tall a tree as possible. There may also be good reasons to generalize the application of these sorts of skills in case the cycles are available to offer animals (for example) the same AI as characters, enabling squirrels and bears to evolve and survive through development.
In fact, there isn't really anything that would prevent a user from occupying a squirrel if they wanted, instead of a character.