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Skill Gaining bugged? (Possible Spoilers)
« on: April 04, 2010, 05:09:00 pm »
I was digging out the unfathomable deeps today when I encountered some sort of four legged tailed beast and a cave blob. It nearly killed a miner, but the miner escaped and I sent my two soldiers down to kill them. The first soldier, my commander, was a decent macedwarf, and the second a recruit macedwarf. The recruit got there first and plowed over the blob, killing it quickly, and chased the other beast through the various tunnels I had dug. Finally, the recruit cornered the beast and wrestled it for a few seconds. Then the beast was dead... and I had a grand master wrestler? Is this normal? Four frames wrestling = grand master?
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Re: Skill Gaining bugged? (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2010, 05:45:41 pm »
Wrestling more dangerous creatures increases stat gains (i think). It's not unheard of.
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Re: Skill Gaining bugged? (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2010, 06:08:01 pm »
Well, that's somewhat understandable, but isn't it still a stretch to shoot from dabbling wrestler to high master in under a second?
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Re: Skill Gaining bugged? (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2010, 08:31:12 pm »
Fairly common, from the looks of it - I've seen it mentioned in various other places. It'd be nice to see what the game defines as dangerous and what's not - it may lead to some interesting bugs if wrestling a hoary marmot gains you multiple legendary dwarves - but this is probably just an anomaly of the new version.

...Or a bug. I'm not sure.
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Re: Skill Gaining bugged? (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2010, 09:22:11 pm »
Yes, I've had this experience.  The very dangerous creature was the only one I noticed giving these wild skill increases.  It usually killed people too quick for them to fight back, though ;p  I'd say it's a bug, but these things should really be buried a little deeper.
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Re: Skill Gaining bugged? (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2010, 09:25:55 pm »
"Very dangerous" doesn't seem to require too much, I had my doctor become a proficient wrestler and fighter as well as a few other things from fighting off buzzards
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Re: Skill Gaining bugged? (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2010, 09:30:34 pm »
I've had an Adventurer wrestle with a Bronze Colossus for a few minutes and shoot from Dabbling to around Legendary+60. Somehow, that doesn't seem quite right.
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Re: Skill Gaining bugged? (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2010, 10:31:20 pm »
Quote from: Quietust on April 04, 2010, 09:30:34 pm
I've had an Adventurer wrestle with a Bronze Colossus for a few minutes and shoot from Dabbling to around Legendary+60. Somehow, that doesn't seem quite right.

Oh I don't know... after a couple of minutes of wrestling with a Bronze Colossus your either really, really good at it or, ya know, dead.
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Re: Skill Gaining bugged? (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2010, 04:36:45 pm »
I don't know if it really was THAT dangerous. It was only a few levels into the Underdark (as I've taken to calling it) and didn't even attack my miners, just sort of glared at them at sent them running to the surface. It WAS a recruit that killed it after all, with no armor to speak of.
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Re: Skill Gaining bugged? (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2010, 07:06:08 pm »
You killed a Bronze Colossus witha Recruit?  :o
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Re: Skill Gaining bugged? (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2010, 07:49:25 pm »
Wrestling trains preposterously fast to begin with.  The new skill bonuses from fighting tougher foes just makes it more insane.
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Re: Skill Gaining bugged? (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2010, 09:25:07 pm »
Quote from: Proteus on April 06, 2010, 07:06:08 pm
You killed a Bronze Colossus witha Recruit?  :o

Err.. no. It was a
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Re: Skill Gaining bugged? (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2010, 09:29:33 pm »
A Rutherer? Really? Pretty sure my miners have been tearing them new ones ever since my staircase happened to hit a wall in the cavern.
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Re: Skill Gaining bugged? (Possible Spoilers)
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2010, 10:19:27 pm »
Which is why I'm wondering why the skill shot up so much on such a sad creature.
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