Q on experience

tja · #1 February 3rd, 2005, 05:58 PM

Are experienced ships still more effective than unexperienced within a fleet which has -say- 0% experience?

Alneyan · #2 February 3rd, 2005, 06:05 PM

Facilities are one per planet, so putting several facilities on the same planet will not help, but putting them on moons will work. System-wide training (the Psychic facilities) are one per system, but they stack with regular facilities.

Ship and fleet experience are unrelated, so you do not need to have any fleet experience at all to benefit from having a 50% experienced vessel. They are rather training at two different levels: tactical level and strategical level, the latter being far easier to achieve in SEIV.

tja · #3 February 3rd, 2005, 06:17 PM

Hey thanks Alneyan!
I'll put that knowledge to good use.

Aris_Sung · #4 February 5th, 2005, 02:19 AM

I know the extra % for offense/defense is to give you a better chance of hitting or dodging.
For example, if you had 50% to-hit, then flipping a coin would sorta determine whether you hit the enemy or not. So I guess in tja's case, tja might just had that bad no-hit streak.
But what happens if you had 100% to-hit without the Talisman (is this possible, by the way?)? Would this mean that you would always hit/dodge?
Any comments?
PS. Has anyone also noticed that sometimes when you're using direct fire weapons if you aim at a certain spot on enemy ships (different spots for different species) you can get a higher chance of hitting the ship (this is also done by firing a couple weapons at a time and not the whole weapon bank.)

Fyron · #5 February 5th, 2005, 03:25 AM

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Aris_Sung said:
PS. Has anyone also noticed that sometimes when you're using direct fire weapons if you aim at a certain spot on enemy ships (different spots for different species) you can get a higher chance of hitting the ship (this is also done by firing a couple weapons at a time and not the whole weapon bank.)

By "spots," what do you mean exactly? Different angles? Such as from the "south" as opposed to from the "north?"

Aris_Sung · #6 February 5th, 2005, 03:41 AM

Hey Fyron,
Yeah, 'spots' isn't a very good way to describe something, eh?
What I mean is that on the picture of the ship that you are shooting at, there's a certain place (like the front of the ship, the back of the ship, most times somewhere in the middle of the ship)where if you place your mouse carefully over it, you'll almost be certain to hit the ship.
Of course, it could just be me hallucinating or just lucky to have good weapons officers.

Fyron · #7 February 5th, 2005, 04:28 AM

Oh. That would probably just be coincidence... I highly doubt that there would be a bug where clicking on certain pixels gives a bonus to hit...