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Author Topic: Military: training and squad assignment  (Read 596 times)

Silverionmox

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Military: training and squad assignment
« on: October 03, 2010, 03:42:21 pm »

Squads train together, sharing their skills. However, it would often be more effective to:
- have dwarves of different skills in the same squad
- have dwarves focus on their skill, rather than become dabbling in all the weapon skills of his squadmates

A way to solve this problem could be to ignore squads with regards to training; in other words, consider training a civilian activity. An alternative is to have alternate squads for training. Or, the simplest, be a bit loose with training, let soldiers train cross-squad, so everyone that has an axe assigned to them can all go to the lessons of the legendary axedwarf, even though he isn't in everyone's squad.

In addition, let dwarves focus on the skills of their chosen/assigned weapon, regardless what the rest of their squad does. The training isn't very effective, there's no point in wasting time to become dabbling in all weapon skills, while ignoring the main skill.
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Afelia Fail

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Re: Military: training and squad assignment
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2010, 11:04:32 am »

Yeah, i agree, the new training system meant to be realistic, and effective, but now we see dwarves screwing around, watching some shit wrestling demonstrations. I was always against the "danger room", i found it cheating, but now, i get happy when see the blue "S" in the top of the screen, i should train military that way, do something with it!

I suggest to add a training screen to military, to choose the skills they would teach each other, or restrict sworddwarves to train some shitaxe or shitwrestling lessons.
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