Weight Training

[Gates]

For the strength training mechanic that increases your strength if you're over encumbered. Either a constructable weight bench that functions similar to a combat dummy only for increasing strength or heavy, inexpensive 'weights' you can carry on your person or in a bag that are extremely heavy. At the moment I just use a backpack full of swords but it doesn't seem like too difficult an idea to put in a few heavy weights as another item. Maybe go further to make 'weighted training cloths/swords' ?

[Marcuss2]

Added to suggestions list

[DrSalvador]

I think having weighted boots or gloves (if that gets implemented) would be a good idea

[Blxz]

Traders backpack is 100kg. Very useful since it can also hold a lot of items inside it that are stackable.

[DrSalvador]

100kg??
That's like... 220 lbs. wtf?

[Blxz]

Excellent math skills. That is indeed very heavy. It is meant to discourage anyone from using them I think. But great for training and very useful for moving lots of building materials when you know you are going to be moving at a walking pace anyway. May as well stack 100 items rather than 7 if the speed is the same.

[redleviathen]

I like this idea, you could create a gym or trainning building in your town with weights, tredmills and other exercise equipment.

[Enth]

I've been doing strength training for my guys like this:

large traders backpacks filled with large Medkts and Rum stacks (Heaviest things you can find...stacks of heavy bladed swords work well. or stacks of Raw Ore/refined Steel bars) + mercenary Plate/plate boots/plate pants/Fragment Axe + carry dead body around.

makes you ridiculously overloaded, and your movement speed is at a crawl even at full run and 4x speed, but it gets the muscles built up on your guys faster than a good anabolic weight gainer/creatine/protein regimen and hard-core free weights...

...at least until something else gets implemented, that is

Hope this helps...

Enth

[Danzigsam]

I like the weight bench idea. I get bored with running my overloaded guys up and down main street all day.

[Danzigsam]

OR mining/quarrying could increase strength. That'd work too.

[LonerWolf]

There is already those circular buildings found in the center of each town they already look like small dojos and already include beds and training dummies. Maybe adding a weight system in there that would work as a gym, that would train a "strength stat" just like the training dummies and combat.

[ocean.]

I picked the game up again after a little while, and I remembered something I always found annoying. The way I often start off the game is by picking Freedom Fighters, and then training my first character along with one other non-builder character elsewhere, while the old soldier stays back and protects the farms. Usually I make my first character quick and agile, whereas I armor up a second one and have him carry a body around wherever he goes to increase his strength (to carry more loot, wear heavier armors, and wield heavier weapons). I don't think this should be the only way to gain strength. This character is usually stuck in the walking animation for a very long time, and when he's actually able to get into a light jog, I'll have stuck more armor on him or my first character will be 10x faster than before. I'll have my first character get in a fight, get -25 somewhere, wake up, bandage and sleep in a bed until fully recovered just as the other character shows up at the town.

I'm not saying freeweights should be added or anything, or that strength-build characters should be super fast, but just additional stats given from regular labor; such as swinging a pickaxe at a hunk of rocks all day at a stone mine, so that they aren't completely useless at the start of the game. Surely that does more for strength than throwing some starving, half-naked bandit over one's shoulders and walking around a bit.