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07 The Academy
The Academy is yet another metagame addition to BattleDrome. Providing another secondary market, and opportunity for a "career path" to develop your warrior into.
The Academy allows one warrior to become a Teacher, instructing other warriors to give them a direct path to improve their attributes!
Increasing attributes is usually done only via points, which must be earned by leveling up. Leveling up gets slower with each level, and the cost of an attribute increases exponentially. Meaning at higher levels, the normal path to advance a warrior's attributes will get very time consuming. Training with a teacher is direct, and allows an immediate increase in that statistic in exchange for a short practice period with the teacher, and the teaching fee. So it can be very valuable, especially to higher leveled warriors and to the teachers who are capable of teaching them!
Any warrior can choose to become a teacher. You simply select the option on the back of your warrior card, and set a "Teaching Fee" that you wish to charge. This fee will be paid by potential students to your warrior directly, in exchange for your teaching fees!
When you teach, the attribute you are best in (your primary attribute) will become the one you can train. So if your warrior has 10 STR, but 5 DEX and 7 CON. They will be a Strength Trainer.
In order for a warrior to train with you, your teacher must have a higher top attribute than the student, AND must be of higher level. This means that a higher level, or higher specialized warrior will be far more valuable (And can command higher teaching fees).
Keep in mind: when a student chooses to engage with your teacher, they will lock both the student and teacher into a training cycle, which will last an amount of time that goes up with the level of the student. So training a higher level student will take more time respectively. This will totally lock up your teacher for this timeframe, beyond your control. But it will end once the timer stops, and you will have your fee to compensate you for the time! Keep this in mind when setting your fee!
In order to train with a teacher, go to the Academy, and click Refresh. Then browse for a trainer of the appropriate attribute, and level. You will see their training fee on their card, so you can use this to select a teacher that suits your budget and needs.
When you are ready to train with them, click the "Train with this teacher" button on the back of their card, and select the warrior from your stable you with to be the student in the resulting dialog.
At any time (that you are idle) you can cancel teaching by choosing that option on the back of your warrior card.
Note you can not do this while actively in a training session with a student!