Re: Ship and fleet experience
 

Watch the replay. I expect you'd see your surviving gunship put the killing blow on 4 ships, and the PD ship finish 2 ships. The fleet experience is interesting, suggesting that you're more likely to get experience with a low-experience fleet, or when your own fleet takes losses.

PvK

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Re: Ship and fleet experience
 

Sorry PVK, there were only 4 ships in that fleet, so my best guess is the DUC ship killed 2, the PD ship killed 2 plus about 40 missiles. But where did the 2% fleet experience come from... especially in light of Primitive's post-- 39 kill 92 and get only 1%?

Re: Ship and fleet experience
 

Mystery resolved http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

Bad news is it opens for a small exploit http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Ask Aaron to fix it in the next patch or publish for everyone to use ?

Re: Ship and fleet experience
 

You would have to be a pretty low person to resort to such obvious bug exploitation.

Re: Ship and fleet experience
 

I vote for sending it to Aaron while keeping it secret. I guess that besides you noone knows this bug yet. so dont tell it to anyone, and dont exploit it yoursef http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Re: Ship and fleet experience
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Whom do you accuse here ?? Maerlin' post was perfectly fine.

Re: Ship and fleet experience
 

I have bugged Aaron (few times) and I got better answers.

Ship experience
+1% for every kill
small amount for seekers, fighters, drones and satellites
none for troops and weapon platforms

Fleet experience
for each kill made by a ship in a fleet, there is a 25% chance that the fleet gets 0.1% experience

I don't know whether fleets get experience for destroying units but I've asked it of Aaron. No reply yet.

Re: Ship and fleet experience
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well now, THIS explains a lot. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif No wonder we were getting different results every time we ran our tests. For once he sticks a random element in the game and then doesn't tell anyone about it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm gonna guess no. One of my tests had a fleet with plenty of PDC facing several ships with missles. While the ships gained individual experience at a slow rate, the fleet gained none. Even with it being only a 1 in 4 chance of getting any experience, with the number of missles my fleet destroyed I would think I would have seen something.

[ January 26, 2004, 15:24: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

Re: Ship and fleet experience
 

Looks like you're right Geo, Aaron said he believe only ships get experience from units.

Yeah that random indeed explains a lot. I made tests when I tried to figure out the fleet experience but I stopped when I got a different result with exactly same settings.

Re: Ship and fleet experience
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Noone has stated that they have exploited the bug, so noone was accused of anything. Anyone that decides to exploit the bug in a PBW game would be a pretty low person in my book. This, of course, is why you have the game host either explicitly allow or ban all of the known bug exploits.

[ January 26, 2004, 22:40: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]