Ship and fleet experience

[Asmala]

I asked MM about fleet experience and got an answer. I asked a clarification to the answer and then I got a second message. Is it my English or why even now I can't understand how the experience is got. I don't want to bug Aaron more if these message are clear enough for somebody so help is appreciated.

First message:
When a ship destroys an enemy ship it receives a single experience point for the kill. Each 5 experience points increase the experience of the ship by one level. If the ship is in a fleet, then all ships in the fleet get 0.1 experience when any of the ships in the fleet achieve a kill.

Second message:
For every kill a ship gets, the fleet it is in gets 0.1 experience for the kill (every ship in the fleet gets 0.1 experience added to it). Each individual ship gets +1% experience for each kill it makes. There is currently a bug in the game where ships are not getting experience for kills via seeker hits. The patch now in progress will fix that problem.

I understood this would be how it works, but it's not correct (except for the first):
Ship experience:
+1% for each kill the ship makes
+0.1% for each kill made by a ship in the same fleet
Fleet experience
+0.1% for each kill made by a ship in the fleet

[Fyron]

I don't think what Aaron told you is correct at all for ship experience. Maybe that is how he wanted it to work, but it is not how it works. It is indeed one XP per kill, not per 5 kills. I have no idea about fleet experience though.

[oleg]

So now, who is coding this sh...y game ?

[ January 19, 2004, 20:18: Message edited by: oleg ]

[PvK]

I think he probably just didn't explain it very clearly. I think what this means is:

+1 ship experience per kill the ship makes.
+0.1 fleet experience per kill the fleet makes.

The stuff he wrote about 5 experience points to go up an experience level is probably referring to the word used to describe the experience level (e.g. Novice, Veteran, Elite, etc.)

The stuff he wrote about ships getting experience for kills their fleet makes is a (confusing) way of explaining the effect of fleet experience. I think it just means the fleet gains experience, and the effect of fleet experience is added to the effect of ship experience. Not that the ship experience actually goes up when some other ship in the fleet makes a kill.

Of course, it's also possible Aaron is mistaken about how it actually works in the current patch.

Now, to test the assertion that fleet experience goes up by +0.1 per ship the fleet kills...

PvK

[ January 19, 2004, 21:07: Message edited by: PvK ]

[Fyron]

Hrm... that could be it too. Happy testing!

[Asmala]

Looks like nobody is able to understand how the experience system works. I'll make more tests and then I'll bug Aaron again.