Frequently Asked Questions for Newbies

Fyron · #1 September 25th, 2002, 09:37 AM

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Originally posted by Shyrka:
A little question
How Ships/Bases get experience? By number of ships destroyed? Or tonnage? Or battles winned? Planets count as experience? And units?

Every time one of your ships destroys an enemy ship, yout ship earns 1% experience. I am not entirely sure how fleet experience is earned. The easiest way to get experience is to build training facilities.

dumbluck · #2 September 25th, 2002, 11:17 AM

IF: I know for a fact that that is incorrect. I don't know how it does work, but I know that's how it doesn't work. Time and time again I've found myself wondering, "how many #@&** ships does that frigate have to kill in order to gain any experience?!?!?!???". Apperantly, it is a lot.

However, fighters/seekers count, too. So in the early game (before training complexes), your PDC cruisers will gain experience much faster than your front line warships. And experience carries over when you retrofit a ship. So....

Slick · #3 September 25th, 2002, 05:31 PM

Are you using missiles? I don't believe missiles give you experience.

Shyrka · #4 September 25th, 2002, 11:34 PM

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Originally posted by Slick:
Are you using missiles? I don't believe missiles give you experience.

Really? Then, I think this is a bug

And for the experience, if every time that a ship kills an enemy it gains 1% experience no matter of tonnage, then you can build a large number of empty hulls and then gift it to the enemy. Then you come with your ships and annihilates that fleet, exchanging resources for experience. I will try it!

Arkcon · #5 September 25th, 2002, 11:47 PM

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Originally posted by Shyrka:

quote:
Originally posted by Slick:
Are you using missiles? I don't believe missiles give you experience.

Really? Then, I think this is a bug

It was always that way. It was rationalized as the guy who poked the fire button didn't really learn anything new, the missile tracked the ship.

The missile might have picked up some good tactics but ...

Ensign Jane: "Lieutenant ... I uh..."
Lt. Liu: "Speak up ensign"
Ensign Jane: "I got a strange telemetry reading from that Last missile the struck the Ammonkre destroyer"
Lt. Liu "Well what was it"
Ensign Jane: "It said: "I know everything"
Lt. Liu "Pay no attention to that, the robotic core usually releases some such foo ... it's a side effect of the advanced AI tracking heuristics"
Ensign Jane: "But what if ..."
Lt. Liu "Ensign... if you can't handle combat, maybe you need see the med lab...NOW..."

"Admiral Jones, the frigate Firestar had lost it's entire munitions supply, apparently some shell shocked ensign jettisoned the entire magazine yelling "You're free ... you're free ... experience the universe ..."

[ September 25, 2002, 22:48: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

Gryphin · #6 September 26th, 2002, 01:26 AM

Posted by Fyron:

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Every time one of your ships destroys an enemy ship, yout ship earns 1% experience.

Just wondering:
If two ships contribute to the damage who gets credit?

Arkcon · #7 September 26th, 2002, 03:15 AM

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Originally posted by Gryphin:
Posted by Fyron:

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Every time one of your ships destroys an enemy ship, yout ship earns 1% experience.

Just wondering:
If two ships contribute to the damage who gets credit?

The one who fires the death blow. In tactical, I used to try to make sure it was the same one, so it's experience would become obscene. I wanted to see how high experience got and what it was called.