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Yes, they are an easy means of getting legendary dwarves.

91 (32.7%)

No, it's in the game and no one says you have to use it.

54 (19.4%)

Who cares play however you want.

133 (47.8%)

Total Members Voted: 274

Voting closed: August 13, 2011, 06:26:01 pm

[Mushroo]

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[Pukako]

Hi - jumped in here without having read ALL 12 pages of comments, but if you want a fortress to last a few sieges without hiding behind impenetrable walls the hole time, you need a danger room, or a gladiatorial room, or something, as the advances in your little axe and spear dwarves skills through actual combat is hopelessly slow, and the invaders ramp up in skill and material a lot faster.

Before I found out how to make a danger room, I got used to my dwarves, despite many battles and exciting deaths, couldn't match anything tougher than elves.  Then the 1st danger room had them legendary within a season.

I'd be happy if danger room training was nerfed a bit providing the actual experience from real battles helped produce good warriors a great deal faster.

But to everyone their own.  I'm trying for immortal fortresses with an open portal to the deeps eventually, if the goblins on giant bats didn't keep messing that up every time...

[King DZA]

Well that's just silly, I've never had a danger room, or arena to train my dwarves(too inhumane for my tastes), and I've survived several sieges, megabeasts, and forgotten beasties using almost solely my military.

Is it slower? most definitely. But is certainly not impossible to have a well trained militia without the use of special training methods.

[trees]

It allows for greater XP from live training.

Do they really? I've never noticed that before, that's actually pretty cool.

I think training weapons are useful if you embark without metal or weapons and want your first few militia captains to be sparring without having to wait for you to set up a proper metal industry.

[Crazy Cow]

And no, I don't. Other methods of training, while not as "cheat-y," do not gain skills nearly fast enough, and therefore result in dead soldiers.

Now, four months later, my opinion has changed. By taking two random idiots, giving them spears and telling them to train every other month, I get legendary fighters after a year or so. It takes about another year of fighting for them to get themselves legendary with their weapons, but it isn't nearly as slow as I thought it would be. Two years to build up an effective militia? Sounds good in my book.

[Ashsaber]

Guess that's what the [TRAINING] tag does.

I vote that it's not an exploit, if only because I feel sorry enough for the gobbos to want to build one for them.

[Necro910]

Guess that's what the [TRAINING] tag does.

I vote that it's not an exploit, if only because I feel sorry enough for the gobbos to want to build one for them.

All [TRAINING] does if I'm not mistaken is make the item out of wood. If it does make it increase XP gain...

DEAR GODS, ALERT THE MILITIA IMMEDIATELY. THE ELVES SHALL! TASTE! IRONY!

[Sandrew]

Guess that's what the [TRAINING] tag does.

I vote that it's not an exploit, if only because I feel sorry enough for the gobbos to want to build one for them.

All [TRAINING] does if I'm not mistaken is make the item out of wood. If it does make it increase XP gain...

DEAR GODS, ALERT THE MILITIA IMMEDIATELY. THE ELVES SHALL! TASTE! IRONY!

It increases XP-gain per enemy. Because those enemies will survive training longer and can thus take more hits, providing more practice than they would against regular weapons.

[Sutremaine]

It allows for greater XP gain because it allows you to spend more time trading blows with the enemy. That's all there is to it.

Blunt weapons can be nerfed to [TRAINING] level by making them from adamantine, which is really really light. Bone and wood are also light, but generally unavailable outside moods. The exception is crossbows, which train hammer skill when used in melee.

[trees]

Ah, I thought you meant they granted more XP per hit, which I wasn't sure about. Thanks for the clarification.