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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Cockroach @ Jun 2 2006, 06:38 PM) [snapback]233871[/snapback]</div>

Please actually test it...

You can load a rookie down as heavily as you like March him until he's coming up with about 17 energy a turn. Unload a few rifles. Wound him a few times. He gains nothing.

You have to either hit your enemy with a bullet, or get a successful psi attack in to boost anything other than reactions and throwing accuracy.
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My impression was that you had to do both things: 1. get kills 2. use the abilities. So there is no experience without kills, but to try to 'allocate' that experience on to the right skills, get the troops doing the right things.

I thought my rookies were getting stronger because they were making kills and carrying heavy loads. You're saying they get stronger purely from making kills, plus a random selection that decides their strength will go up?

Anyway it's useful to know this as there is various different stories out there.

As you suggest, I will test it. For now I will stop overloading rookies. I only ever did it very slightly - by just a couple of TUs.