My character has taken first steps in the art of rat training. First attempt was a success, and the rat gained 'Ferocious(?) Bite'. Then, the next day, I tried anew, and the attempt failed. However, the already trained Trick remained. So far so good.

However, today, checking the rat showed it had no Tricks. And as I tried to train it, the following happened:

So, judging by the DC, it remembered one failed and one succesful attempt so far, and yet it did not register the new Trick, nor the previous one.

And, incidentally, when originally caught, the rat had Traits Weak, Clumsy, Sturdy, Dumb. The Sturdy dropped to Fragile after first relog with it. The rat in question was a Dire Sewer Rat.

The plot thickens..

Yesterday, I changed the aforementioned rat cage to an empty one - or so I thought. But as I was today going to go and hunt another specimen, I decided to check what the empty cage would give during inspection. And much to my surprise, it showed that the cage already had a rat, with traits appropriate to the Dire Sewer Rat. (Weak, Clumsy, Sturdy, Dumb) :shock:

Puzzled, I then decided to try and train that rat, and it seemed to work as well, the DC was equal to the first training attempt (15), although after the training, the inspection of the cage showed once again a rat that had no tricks.

Next time I log in, I'm going to clean the slate, eg. thrash the existing cage, get a new one, capture a new specimen, and see how it goes from there..

Working on cages today, and seeing about getting the rat arena automated so people can have fights any time they want.

I could be wrong, but I think this issue is because the description on the rat cages is wrong. It says "Check rat: use cage on itself", "Train rat: use cage on yourself". I used cage on myself and ended up checking the rat. I used cage on itself and it ended up trying to train it, because I got the message "Failed training attempts: 1." The directions need to be switched.

Should be displaying tricks properly as of version 529. Also reduced cage weights for newly bought cages.