Missiles and Experience

[Aiken]

Too bad this bug was not fixed. Yet another reason to avoid seekers in your designs.
bbq, I misled you unintentionaly. Sorry. I trusted the history.txt

[Ragnarok]

Ahhh who needs exp points from missiles...Just train the ships at a training center...

[Suicide Junkie]

What if you hit a ship with direct fire weapons, and then finish it off with a missile?

[capnq]

Suicide Junkie said:
What if you hit a ship with direct fire weapons, and then finish it off with a missile?

Only the "killing stroke" matters for experience purposes.

[Suicide Junkie]

capnq said:

Only the "killing stroke" matters for experience purposes.

It all depends on how it is implemented. Perhaps the Last ship to hit it with a DF weapon is recorded, and then XP is dished out when the ship dies.

[Kana]

Does this thread indicate the possiblity that we need to look into how experience is being done, and how it will be implemented in SE5?

Kana

[Fyron]

Suicide Junkie said:
It all depends on how it is implemented. Perhaps the Last ship to hit it with a DF weapon is recorded, and then XP is dished out when the ship dies.

Only the killing stroke. One ship could hit the target with 12 shots, then a second ship hits it once and finishes it. The second ship gets the 1 experience point, the first ship gets nothing. Killing ships only gives ship experience in full 1% increments.

Kana said:
Does this thread indicate the possiblity that we need to look into how experience is being done, and how it will be implemented in SE5?

Kana

The method that experience is acquired is more or less known. It is definitely wonky and needs to be revamped for SE5...

[Suicide Junkie]

Then what did the patch do?!

I'm suggesting that maybe Aaron might have done something like that, and we need to try out these variations again.