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[Pilsu]

I doubt animal training would become much of a chore unless you insist on every animal being masterful at everything and never actually utilize their skills.

[Lord Shonus]

Less hard than I thought
But we will need so many
animal trainers

On another note
writing haiku is quite hard
with chilli in eye.

I was about to
Ask why your posts are haikus.
Took me a while.

The last line is close,
Only 4 syllables though.
Haiku is plural

"While" is a two-syllable word.

[Rowanas]

Less hard than I thought
But we will need so many
animal trainers

On another note
writing haiku is quite hard
with chilli in eye.

I was about to
Ask why your posts are haikus.
Took me a while.

The last line is close,
Only 4 syllables though.
Haiku is plural

"While" is a two-syllable word.

I'm sorry, of course
The pronunciation was
confusing at first.

[thijser]

My setup would be this:
each annimal has a basic skill need. Where megabeasts need legendary trainers small vermine and common domesic annimal can be tamed by a dabling trainer. baby annimals require 5 skill points less then adult annimals. Training an annimal for war and hunting adds 4 to the required number of skills, unless this pushes it over the 20. I do not think it's a good idea to actually add training levels dirrecly related towards skill of the annimal instead I think it should be more like this:
You can select a training level when ordering it to become a war annimal. These training levels are as following

1 command following: requires to be assined to a dwarf the annimal will attack it's target (+0 skill required)
2 frend/ennemy findable: Can attack on his/her own. (+3)
3 ridable: dwarfs can ride on this annimal (+5)
4 secule understanding: can be assigned to squads and will follow training sessions that improve skill.(+6)

[Sfon]

Dabbling trainers couldn't train much more than a puppy or a kitty.

If this was done, I think grown domestic dogs should still be tamable by anyone, not just puppies. Otherwise training the animal trainers themselves would be too problematic, and dogs take easily to training anyway. Could put a major speed penalty for grown dogs if they are only dabbling, but it should still be doable.

Perhaps that could be done with other animals too, by making training skill minimum also effect training speed. So if dogs require 0 skill and jaguars 5, a trainer with five skill could train a dog quickly but a jaguar very slowly. A person with 0 skill could train a dog, but very slowly like the skill 5 trainer and jaguar.