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[Blade Master Model 42]

I just got some new migrants, so I was processing them, checking for useful skill, giving everyone else mega-project duty.

Oddly enough, I got three brewers in a row. One Adequate, one talented, and one skilled, in that order.

Anyone else have the brewmasters club emigrate to their fortress, or similar occasions?

Edit: Woop, and a competent, though several migrants later.

[Yoink]

Hmm, I know I've had some odd ones, but in the last bunch I had three millers, one novice, one adept and one talented, in that order. But I know it can be amusing to see the weird skill combinations they have... I'll keep an eye out from now on!

[Necro910]

Once every migrant was a legendary fisherdwarf. When it was tundra.

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[Reelyanoob]

When I had a fort where I tried starting with only a single skilled miner I got a couple of high skilled Miners in my next immigration. It's possible that the game weights the skills based on what you lack.

This may explain the high number of 'useless' migrants players report, because those are skills the player does not use or train, the game sees the 'lack' of this skill. It would also explain why you get a clump of similar skills together, as each is 'rolled' off the same data.  I got a couple of skilled Glassmakers together in my current fort, which was handy at the time as I was about to set up Glassworks.

This might be an area where the gameplay could be improved. e.g. if you are training up clothiers and weavers, you'd be more likely to get dyers, as this is a lacked skill but is complementary to the other two.

Did you have very low-skilled Brewers before that?

@Necro910 : Legendary Fisherdwarf, or such, for me = Combined Hauler/Mason/Mech/Architect/Woodcutter. No worse than a peasant.

[Necro910]

When I had a fort where I tried starting with only a single skilled miner I got a couple of high skilled Miners in my next immigration. It's possible that the game weights the skills based on what you lack.

This may explain the high number of 'useless' migrants players report, because those are skills the player does not use or train, the game sees the 'lack' of this skill. It would also explain why you get a clump of similar skills together, as each is 'rolled' off the same data.

Did you have very low-skilled Brewers before that?

Maybe, I abandoned the fort a while ago. I mostly got fishermen at the fort for some reason. I never got to the caverns, the magma was very social.
 

[Blade Master Model 42]

When I had a fort where I tried starting with only a single skilled miner I got a couple of high skilled Miners in my next immigration. It's possible that the game weights the skills based on what you lack.

This may explain the high number of 'useless' migrants players report, because those are skills the player does not use or train, the game sees the 'lack' of this skill. It would also explain why you get a clump of similar skills together, as each is 'rolled' off the same data.  I got a couple of skilled Glassmakers together in my current fort, which was handy at the time as I was about to set up Glassworks.

This might be an area where the gameplay could be improved. e.g. if you are training up clothiers and weavers, you'd be more likely to get dyers, as this is a lacked skill but is complementary to the other two.

Did you have very low-skilled Brewers before that?

Not very low skilled, but not great either. Plus this fort has a bit of a history with hydration issues, and I just built an extra still, so that very well could be it.