Have you ever been Experienced?

DirectorTsaarx · #1 January 29th, 2001, 09:29 PM

AFAIK, experience is supposed to grant to-hit bonuses and to-not-be-hit bonuses. However, ISTR that only ship experience really counts for this; fleet experience doesn't seem to be applied to anything. And ship experience is only gained by destroying things with direct-fire weapons. If you destroy a ship/planet/base with missiles, you get no experience for the kill. OTOH, using PD cannon DOES coutnt for experience: each fighter, each missile, and each satellite killed counts for experience. So put a couple PD Cannon on each ship, put them in battle against fighters/missiles/satellites, and watch the experience grow!

As for fleet experience: I'm not certain about this, but I think fleet experience is the average experience gained by the ships in the fleet since the time the fleet was created. In other words, if you have three ships with 20% experience each and merge them into a fleet, the fleet experience starts at 0%. If one ship increases to 30%, the fleet experience would be 3% (10 point increase, divided by three ships). But I could be WAY off on this...

Lion of High Park · #2 January 29th, 2001, 09:31 PM

Yup. I have had ships gain experience from combat with time as well. The other trick, of course, is to build ship and fleet training facilities (military science level 2) in whatever system you use as your main staging area.

Blue Lord · #3 January 29th, 2001, 09:58 PM

I pay really close attention to my fleet experiance on a game I'm currently running. Why? Because after a while the little novice tag changes to Elite

No, seriously, experience makes any direct fire weapon improve hit chances. But you don't need to destroy a ship with direct fire weapons to get experiance. All you got to do is to get fired at by direct fire weapons so you're shields take some damage. I mainly use large amounts of Seeking Parasites and I've got two ships that both of them fighted themself up to Elite status (22%).

Tomgs · #4 January 29th, 2001, 10:35 PM

Ship experience increases to hit and defence values. I have yet to see any benifit from fleet experience. I wrote to Malfador about this but so far I have not had a reply.

raynor · #5 January 29th, 2001, 10:43 PM

quote:
Originally posted by DirectorTsaarx:
OTOH, using PD cannon DOES count for experience: each fighter, each missile, and each satellite killed counts for experience. So put a couple PD Cannon on each ship, put them in battle against fighters/missiles/satellites, and watch the experience grow!

Hey! Great tip. I'll have to go back and see what my experience is like after battling the Earth Alliance.

KiloOhm · #6 January 29th, 2001, 10:54 PM

I believe there is a problem with ships getting experience from missle kills. If your using missles, that's probly why you get 0 expierence.

quote:
Originally posted by Astromut:
I have a Fleet that gets into combat.

It wins.

It gains no experience.

BUG?

How do you earn fleet experience?
What effect does it have?

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DirectorTsaarx · #7 January 29th, 2001, 11:01 PM

Blue Lord:

You get experience for BEING hit? That's kinda weird... are you sure you didn't gain experience by destroying your opponents' seekers?