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Training School Bonuses

Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:39 am

Today and yesterday, I have been training my pet's level so that its stats can be more balanced. anyway, every time that I finished a course at the school, my pet got a "Super Bonus" and went up two points instead of the usual one. Is it normal to have the bonuses five, six times in a row? are the bonuses random? if they are, how random are they? what are the chances your pet will get a bonus?

Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:56 am

You won't be that lucky to get the bonuses all the time, so I assume you get it once in a while. I use to get when I trained my pet, but I use the lab ray now. I don't think they're any sort of "chances" that you'll get a bonus, it's just random, but your pet might be lucky enough to get the bonus again and again. :D

Tue Dec 27, 2005 6:19 am

ducky, you're having one of those rare cycles of bonuses :) Enjoy them while they last! For about 2 weeks I was getting a bonus once a day. For lower level training it was great.

Once I got to 4 codestones those bonuses seemed to just melt away. I think I went almost a month without a single bonus.

Tue Dec 27, 2005 10:10 am

I'm in the 4-codestone range now, and I just finished training 78 stat points. I got the super bonus 9 times. A while ago I trained 40 stat points and got it 5 times. I remember getting it a lot more frequently when I had a lower level, and often twice in a row. I never get it twice in a row now.*





*This is actually a good thing, sometimes. I had to train level to 100 and strength/HP to 200. If I'd gotten a super bonus on any of those last points, I'd have been pushed into 5-codestone range and would have to spend an extra 4-5K per stat point, ugh.

Tue Dec 27, 2005 5:23 pm

Cranberry wrote:I'm in the 4-codestone range now, and I just finished training 78 stat points. I got the super bonus 9 times. A while ago I trained 40 stat points and got it 5 times. I remember getting it a lot more frequently when I had a lower level, and often twice in a row. I never get it twice in a row now.*





*This is actually a good thing, sometimes. I had to train level to 100 and strength/HP to 200. If I'd gotten a super bonus on any of those last points, I'd have been pushed into 5-codestone range and would have to spend an extra 4-5K per stat point, ugh.


You could have just tried to lose on Deadly Dice, to bring down your level.

Tue Dec 27, 2005 9:47 pm

theonlysaneone wrote:
Cranberry wrote:I'm in the 4-codestone range now, and I just finished training 78 stat points. I got the super bonus 9 times. A while ago I trained 40 stat points and got it 5 times. I remember getting it a lot more frequently when I had a lower level, and often twice in a row. I never get it twice in a row now.*





*This is actually a good thing, sometimes. I had to train level to 100 and strength/HP to 200. If I'd gotten a super bonus on any of those last points, I'd have been pushed into 5-codestone range and would have to spend an extra 4-5K per stat point, ugh.


You could have just tried to lose on Deadly Dice, to bring down your level.


It's not just level you need to worry about when you're getting really close (like within 1 or 2 stats) to the next codestone training amount. Let's say you're training your pet, it's at level/strength/defense/hp 99 ... you train a strength or defence level and get a super bonus (from 99 to 101 for instance) - you just got shoved into the next training category. HP, it's not quite as big a deal as you can train 3x your level.

I love bonuses unless I'm really close as my example above. And yes, I did have have happen when I was still on 3 stones. Got a good defence boost that shoved me into 4 stone training.

Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:55 am

Yep, everconfused explained it. If I had gone from 199 to 201 strength, I'd be forced to train one more level before I could train anything else... and that would put me in the 5-codestone range.

HP, yeah... you can train three times your level, but then if you want to train anything else, you have to bring level up to half your HP. So it's the same deal. HP's actually the worst because there's no way to reduce it. Lab only takes HP away very, VERY rarely, if ever.

Wed Dec 28, 2005 7:37 pm

The bonuses do indeed taper off in frequency as you get better pets...

I've also heard of people getting more than 2 points for the super bonus. 6 is the highest I've heard of. I think I got 3 points once, but really can't remember :roll:

Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:24 am

Duke of Earl wrote:The bonuses do indeed taper off in frequency as you get better pets...

I've also heard of people getting more than 2 points for the super bonus. 6 is the highest I've heard of. I think I got 3 points once, but really can't remember :roll:

Personally.. 4 was my personal high.. :)

Thu Dec 29, 2005 8:28 am

I gave up training, the lab ray made my hps over 440 now and to train anything else I am forced into training solid level and well thats just expensive now lol

Did it aswell

Sun Jan 01, 2006 12:39 am

I did the exact same thing last summer, PM me and i will be able to help you out.
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