Have you ever been Experienced?

[Felan]

I was having problems with my lower tech ships attacking a planet with many missle based weapon platforms. So I created a single ship design that was filled with only PD weapons. It was a couple of battles later that I noticed that the PD ship had a Legendary rating. So naturally I retrofitted it to a different class of ship and changed one of the other ships to be the PD ship.

It's important when designing ships to never get rid of the bridge and crew compartments or you'll lose whatever xp's the ship has.

Any Master Computer is a really really slow learner in comparison to live crew. I'm curious how that one persons suggestion for combining crew and Master Computer would affect the rate of xp gain and if you do use both what effect upgrading\adding a Master Computer has on the accumulated xp of the ship.

Also does anyone know if multiple Master Computers has any effect, say to increase the speed of xp gain by the ship?

[Suicide Junkie]

I am under the impression that each ship will get either its own experience rating OR the fleet's rating, whichever is higher.

[Will]

In my experience, SJ is right. You either get the ship bonus or the fleet bonus, whichever is higher.

Experience for ships, I'm not exactly sure how it's calculated. I do know that you CAN get experience from seeker damage done, I know that I would get 1% experience when destroying an enemy dreadnaught, destroying about 20 large fighters, or about 40 seekers... This is all based on memory, so don't quote me on that.

Fleet experience, I believe, is gained when you use your fleets as fleets... IE. If you have two ships work together to destroy a target. So, when ships cooperate, the fleet experience goes up.

[Marty Ward]

I build a lot of AAA ships and find that they reach legendary status very quickly, especially against races that are heavy fighter Users. Do you think this is right? My feeling is that fighter and sat kills should not count toward experiance, as the potential number of targets is so great.

[Suicide Junkie]

Legends can be made by either defeating a single great enemy, or a small army of light units.

My LC should be just as famous for defeating the alien Dreadnaught as for fighting his way home through a thousand fighters.

(Note that legends get blown outta proportion: it was only a battlecruiser, and a hundred fighters )

[DirectorTsaarx]

I think Fleet Experience is an average of the individual ship's experience.

I haven't noticed that the fleet experience has ever been applied, even when it was higher than a ship's experience, but I may not have done enough testing on that.

BTW - the MM website states that the ship and fleet experience SHOULD be additive; I'll report the possible bug...

[Suicide Junkie]

Fleet is definitely not an average of ship experience. Although it may be the sum of the experiences of the fleet divided by the number of ships at the time the experience was gained.

Take an experienced fleet, add a base to the fleet, then remove all the ships. The base now gets the 50% legendary fleet bonus, and even though it's just an orbital factory, enemies have a -50% chance to hit it

Try giving your enemy a stack of unarmed fighters, then attacking with PD ships to gain experience with a legendary ship & fleet, you can retrofit to nearly invulnerable beamer ships.