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[Zeebie]

In the new version, two of my militia have their activities reported as "Spar."  However, there are no sparring reports and they are just standing in the barracks.  Anyone seen this?

[MobRules]

Dunno. But something has definitely changed WRT sparring behavior.

I did notice in .40 and prior I could build military skill in fresh recruits without triggering unhappy thoughts about the draft. If I assigned them initially to an always-inactive squad, and gave that squad a place to train, they would spar constantly (but never complain, since they were inactive). By the time I switched them to a normal active military schedule, they had enough military experience that they didn't complain about it.

That doesn't work in this version. I never see anyone sparring, putting 10 dwarfs in an inactive squad is no different than not putting them in the military at all.

[Codyo]

People reported their skills still raise, despite no combat reports. It could be a bug and probably has been reported by now.

[PDF urist master]

I've noticed this too. Sparring activity is now yellow instead of cyan, sparring doesn't seem to grant any skill increases. My dwarves have been in active training for a year now and their skill level hasn't gone up one bit.

[Bumber]

I've noticed this too. Sparring activity is now yellow instead of cyan, sparring doesn't seem to grant any skill increases. My dwarves have been in active training for a year now and their skill level hasn't gone up one bit.

IIRC, yellow is the color of a need being filled on break. Maybe Toady integrated the activity into the needs system, but failed to carry over the skill gain?

Or the need isn't properly branching into activities like the issue with Worship/Worship! in the first release.