Have you ever been Experienced?

[Baron Munchausen]

Also, if someone hasn't mentioned it already, you should only gain experience for destroying ARMED ships. Another very easy way to build up huge experience levels is to sit your ships on a warp point into a system where the AI wants to colonize and pick off the colony ships as they stream in. Rarely is the AI focused enough to send more than a few warships at a time to clear out the path to the desired planets.

Ideally, there should be a player settable "tonnage to gain 1 experience" setting in the settings.txt file. Of course, you should never gain more than 1 percent per ship in any case, but being able to specify 20000 tons destroyed to gain a point of experience would be nice. "Legendary" ships would become much more valuable.

[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 28 March 2001).]