For some reason a prisoner with a dye color I want isn't automatically eating the food in his inventory. I seem to have to pull him out of the cage and then shove him back in to force him to eat. Obviously annoying and means I have to periodically check in on him to ensure he eats.
My question: if he starves to death, can he still dye clothing, and will his corpse remain in the cage indefinitely or will it disappear?
Doing a new playthrough and I actually managed 93 STR and 98 Toughness as a Shek. To be honest, both 94 STR and 99 Toughness seem plausible, but now tedious. Toughness now levels at about 1.5% EXP when getting up from playing dead around a large Hungry Bandit group in Skinner's Roam, so I imagine level 100 is possible too as long at it stays above 0.5% EXP per get up at level 99, it would just get extremely tedious since it would mean I'd have to get up 200 times to get that last level.
STR, on the other hand, feels like it is going to absolutely die after 96 at the latest in terms of progress. I realize STR guides claim walking while overloaded is inefficient, but that has not been my experience.
My experience has been that the problem with STR training with a weapon is the most efficient ways to do this are Heavy Weapons or Martial Arts...the problem being, it's these exact weapon types that absolutely drop enemies and shorten fights, meaning poor returns since the fights are so brief. Thus, even though I can recognize that in a vacuum, in theory swinging your weapon would be faster if you had endless waves of enemies, but in practice I struggle to find enough enemies to feed to my guys and end up just using those Generator Cores or spare Edge 3 Fragment Axes in a backpack as training weights while carrying someone around. It's still pretty bad because at 93 I can do a lap from Squin to the Ashlands and probably get like 75% EXP, so I can't imagine how bad it'll get beyond that.
I vaguely remember running into slowdown at 97 or so for Melee Attack/Dex/weapon skills when training against Cat-Lon on another character. It wasn't awful, but hit a point where it would still take a bit of effort and time to get them past there, with 98 feeling like the level where EXP rates go to die.
Anyone know better methods of training skills? As I said, I'm familiar with all the best spots and guides, but something I rarely see discussed is how unfortunately, Heavy Weapons and Martial Arts end up being optimal for STR and DEX (DEX just with Martial Arts) and they both nuke enemies too quickly and make looking for fights tedious.
Martial Arts especially I don't think I've ever gotten past 90. I feel like all my characters only get past 80 by training against Cat-Lon or the Great White Gorillo, but Martial Arts just hits too damned hard, making training it up in the lategame feel nearly impossible or even more tedious than ever.
Also inb4 someone rolls up saying "I got 98 swimming, jealous?" Tell me you shop at Armour King without telling me you shop at Armour King.
As in, what gives you the best quality of life?
Let me get an obvious top-tier contender out of the way: World's Edge. Passive ruling faction and a relatively safe region. Ditto for Black Scratch, it's just the region is a little more dangerous.
Don't wanna get too lost in fixating on the absolute top-tier picks, which is why I called those out immediately, and instead I'm curious to hear things like if people value Blister Hill, Bark, or Random Hive Village #3 more.