Hello all,

I learned this morning that cub training works significantly differently on the inside than what I and quite a few people I talked to previously thought.

This is the current system:
- Percentages gained from age 5-11 months cub training are gained either 75%, fully, or somewhere in between (corresponding to percentage) in stats when the lion hits 2 years.
- This means adol training (following subs on patrols, following females on hunts) is almost completely useless if the cub has been aged up without any prior cub training.
- This also means that cub training is completely luck based - if your cub happened to fail cub training a lot, that cub would get a lot less stats upon aging up than a cub who had succeeded often, even if they were both at the same percentage (say, 100%) when they aged.
At least, that is how it was explained to me this morning.

I would like to propose a change that would depend less on luck and more on the percentage of the bar filled, and also possibly factor in the cub's inborn stats. This is just one idea of how it could possibly be changed, feel free to throw out others:
- Core idea: Remove stat gain dependence on age 5-11 months cub training luck.
- Core idea: Level the ground for cubs that were aged up or just plain unlucky to have the some potential as cubs that aged naturally.
- Core idea: Make stat gain upon aging relative to the percentage of the bar filled. It could be kept at no stats unless 75-100% is filled, or it could be made so that even 15% (arbitrary number) filled would gain a low amount of stats.

- Optional idea 1: Static range of stats gained that correspond on a chart to percentage filled. For example, 100% = 200-225 stats, 75% = 150-175 stats, etc. (The math in this model is cub training percentage (as a #) * 2-2.25. It is just an example, I am not pushing for this exact model.) This would retain an element of surprise, but be based more on time put in/work rather than plain dumb luck.

- Optional idea 2: Factor in cub's inborn stats. A sample model for this could be ((cub training percentage (as a %) * 2-2.25) * cub's inborn stats) *.05. Example using said model - high stats: ((100% * 2-2.25) * 2000 stats) = 200-225 stats gained upon aging. Example using said model - low stats: ((100% * 2-2.25) * 200 stats ) = 20-22.5 stats gained upon aging. I am not actually fond of this model as it heavily favors high inborn stats, but if someone could come up with something that does factor in inborn stats without such heavy bias, I'm all ears.*

*On the flip side, the first idea could also be biased towards low-stat cubs - a cub born with 29 stats could end up with more than 8x its birth stats under the first idea's model. Not saying this is a bad thing, but I thought I'd mention it in case. Full disclosure and all that.

If you don't support, please tell me why. I am all ears for respectful discussion and opinions!
Thank you for reading and considering.