Training ideas for idle CS

[Deicide4u]

Citizen soldiers (CS) are currently good for only two things. One of them is collecting resources other than food. The other is dying before becoming good at combat. Not a lot of your CS survive until the Elite rank, when they truly excel, both at fighting and at fashion. 

Of course, you can train them at the Barracks and Stables. But, those structures can hold just 10 units, and often it's better to just let your CS gather resources. Also, you can't exactly tell which rank your CS reached while in the buildings. 

So, how can we train them quicker? One way is to make "Rigorous Training" an aura around your Barracks and Stables. This aura will provide faster training to CS, but only if they are idle. Another idea is to dedicate special "Training Grounds" areas, either buildable by females and CS or provided scattered around the map as neutral structures. 

This way, we can award players that use these units primarly for map control and combat.

[Grautvornix]

Good ideas! By the way does anyone know for how long you need to keep soldiers garrisoned to rank them up? Can there be multiple level up trainings? (i.e. after a second stay in the barracks) I tried once to setup a chain of barracks, each one training 10 soldiers that are immediately garrisoned into the next barracks. 

[real_tabasco_sauce]

13 minutes ago, Grautvornix said:

Good ideas! By the way does anyone know for how long you need to keep soldiers garrisoned to rank them up? Can there be multiple level up trainings? (i.e. after a second stay in the barracks) I tried once to setup a chain of barracks, each one training 10 soldiers that are immediately garrisoned into the next barracks. 

you can garrison troops into the building they train in with ctrl + click.

[Deicide4u]

2 hours ago, Grautvornix said:

By the way does anyone know for how long you need to keep soldiers garrisoned to rank them up?

There's no tooltip that's showing the current ranks or experience. But, it takes more time for cavalry. 

2 hours ago, Grautvornix said:

Can there be multiple level up trainings?

Units can go straight to elite rank, depending on the time spent inside the building.

You can build multiple Barracks/Stables and use them to house troops. That's not very efficient in the early game, though. But, neither is training CS just to rank them up.