Question on Perform / Versatile Performance

[modicasolis]

I assume this is the case, but I wanted to double check.

I have to assign ranks to each sub-skill of Perform individually, right? That is to say, I have to put ranks into Perform: Comedy and ranks into Perform: Oratory separately and not just Perform, correct?

I can't just have six ranks in Perform that apply to Comedy and Oratory, but twelve ranks in Perform that apply to Comedy (6) and Oratory (6).

For some reason, I played with the former rules before, which was awesome, and I'd love to do that again but upon reading the rules, it doesn't seem like that's the case.

[Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan]

Right, Perform works like Craft, Profession, and Knowledge, you put points into individual types of Perform.

[StreamOfTheSky]

In D&D 3.0, Perform was just a single skill and not split up, iirc.

Also, the 3.5 feat Versatile Performance (unrelated to the PF class feature) let you use ranks in one perform for other types of performances.

You might have been thinking of either of those, or your DM possibly was house ruling based off of them.