New player here - training mercs seems too slow and a waste of time?

[Crorens]

Two days worth of training brings a few points of a stat, meaning i should go idle for 2-3 weeks to have any meaningful impact, is that worth it? Im afraid of losing time.

Yesterday I took the second mine and went idle for the first time, and in a week I managed to get a few stats on my mercs, some militia, repairs and heal some wounds.

When I think what I could have done in that time roaming the map makes me feel like im wasting time going idle...

Should I just change the way I look at the game? Is a month ingame a short amount of time? Im afraid of my mines going empty while i idle for a few points of stat

[HozzMidnight]

Try to only use trainers with the teacher perk as well as whatever high stat you want to train. A good example is Fox, she is an amazing DEX trainer especially for lower end mercs. Depending on your squad it might be worth it to bring in Hitman for a week just to train Marksmanship 3x in a row and send him packing.

An IMP merc with the Teacher perk is probably a good idea if you like training. You can dump Med/Mech/Exp to 0 and then have one other stat at 40 then everything else at 85.

[osubaker33]

Training is obscenely broken. Theres almost no penalty in this game to using time and with the right mercs its very easy to have obscenely overpowered stats after a month of training. My first playthrough I piddled around training for 3 months and still ended the game with over $1 mil in cash. Had obscene overpowered mercs. I dont use training anymore because it makes the game too easy.

[Laggy]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Dreepa:

Wasn't "leadership" the relevant stat for the teacher while wisdom is relevant for the merc receiving the training?

It seems leadership only affects militia training and conversion options, mercs training doesn’t need leadership…

[[ScrN]PooSH]

Diposting pertama kali oleh uncle nick:

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Training your mercs are never a waste of time. You could invest in training Raven upto 99 marksmanship, and her salary will be about half that of what you would be paying for hiring Scope.

Buns is already at 95 marksmanship with little to no training, mostly from the number of kills she is getting. Then as her marksmanship improves, she is able to train up Grunty to the same level of marksmanship as her.

I'm currently also training up Kalyna, Mouse and Limewire. These are going to be the best bang for buck mercs for me.

My Raven has 100 marksmanship; never trained, all extra points were earned in battles. However, skill points don't matter that much in JA3. Perks are more important.

Elite mercs are a waste of money for nothing. I hired Shadow only because I had +$10k/day. But I cannot find a good use for him: Fox&Wolf do way better stealth kills, both costing less than Shadow alone.

[[ScrN]PooSH]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Laggy:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Dreepa:

Wasn't "leadership" the relevant stat for the teacher while wisdom is relevant for the merc receiving the training?

It seems leadership only affects militia training and conversion options, mercs training doesn’t need leadership…

Leadership matters. Raider is a much better Strength trainer than Wolf despite the latter having higher STR. Both have Teaching perk, but Raider has much higher Leadership.

[osubaker33]

Diposting pertama kali oleh ScrNPooSH:

Diposting pertama kali oleh uncle nick:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3012714263
Training your mercs are never a waste of time. You could invest in training Raven upto 99 marksmanship, and her salary will be about half that of what you would be paying for hiring Scope.

Buns is already at 95 marksmanship with little to no training, mostly from the number of kills she is getting. Then as her marksmanship improves, she is able to train up Grunty to the same level of marksmanship as her.

I'm currently also training up Kalyna, Mouse and Limewire. These are going to be the best bang for buck mercs for me.

My Raven has 100 marksmanship; never trained, all extra points were earned in battles. However, skill points don't matter that much in JA3. Perks are more important.

Elite mercs are a waste of money for nothing. I hired Shadow only because I had +$10k/day. But I cannot find a good use for him: Fox&Wolf do way better stealth kills, both costing less than Shadow alone.

Some have really OP custom perks and late game money is no issue anyway. Also an alternative after you have finished the game for like the 4th time.

[ProcrastinatorBot]

Training is very worth it. Money (and hence time) isn't exactly hard to come by. I have just been past the major plot twist (you'll know it when you see it) so probably just end mid/late game. I have 1.1 million after spending quite a lot to prepare for the "plot twist".

In contast, training may be the quickest way to increase your stats. Notable ones are agility - 1ap per 5 levels, marksmanship - no idea what it does exactly but my mercenaries rarely miss after getting them to 90+, and strength - I don't use melee so no other way to increase it.

Eventually, you will need 90+ in a stat if you want the gold perk associated with that stat,

One mercenary can train an unlimited number of other mercenaries provided they're all in the same place. To optimise it, you really want one mercenary with 90+ in the stat then train all your other mercenaries. You can even hire an external one just (e.g steroid for strength) to train your main team of 6.

Overall, a bit of time invested into training means my cheap "recruit" and "veteran" mercs have higher stats than the elites or legendaries but are much cheaper :)

Invest in your workforce guys!!

[kayfabe]

Training ranges from a secondary difficulty toggle if you are comfortable dragging playtime out beyond all reason (which I definitely am not) to still useful even if you only use it in drips and drabs (which I actually kinda hope they don't nerf). Medicine in particular is easy to casually bootstrap into nursing assistant range as repairs and militia training gets done since MD and Fox are so cheap and both have teaching. Even if you don't feel like keeping MD long term he's a reasonable pick for getting off Ernie Island and doing some operations until your cash stabilizes.

[Nellvan]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Rhapsody:

You also don't need to complete the two-day training program in its entirety to get skill points.

This is getting overlooked a lot, I think. Whenever you got some mercs just sitting around waiting for other ops to finish, might as well let them train.