40d Talk:Wrestler

Has anybody else noticed, in the latest version (40d) that wrestlers are levelling up much quicker? To put this into perspective: in my current fortress I have 36 champions at the end of year 4. Each and every one of them got from recruit to champion in less than two seasons. And no matter what weapon I equip them with, their experience in that weapon never, ever meets or exceeds that gained in wrestling. Obviously, I shouldn't complain, but it's still slightly vexing, as non-wrestling military elites are considered desirable. If only because grey is such a boring colour. Aosher 18:39, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Them getting legendary so quick has been reported on the forums a few times, so it's a relatively well-known bug. As for weapons, do you mean elite wrestlers don't turn into something else when another weapon gets high enough? --LegacyCWAL 19:26, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh, good. I searched the Known Bugs list and couldn't find anything, but wanted to be sure before making a forum post. What I meant about the weapon was: say I have just made a new recruit. That recruit has 0XP in both wrestling and whatever weapon I assign them to. The recruit goes off and spars; we know that sparring trains both the weapon skill in question and wrestling, as well as armour user, shield user etc. While sparring with a weapon, the recruit should gain XP in the weapon faster than wrestling, but he doesn't; in every case that I've tried, the dwarf has become a wrestler, then an elite wrestler, then a champion, still gaining XP as a weapon user but never having the XP in that weapon meet or exceed the XP he has in wrestling. It seems that it's just a function of wrestling XP being gained abnormally quickly. Aosher 08:48, 19 March 2009 (UTC)