Fleet experiance, how is it earned.

Krsqk · #1 December 2nd, 2002, 06:17 AM

Correct. DF weaps are the only way to get ship and fleet experience. PDC firing on seekers and drones is included in this. In fact, fleet experience may be higher than average ship experience when facing missile-heavy enemies.

This experience stuff is weird.

Kamog · #2 December 2nd, 2002, 08:20 AM

How do you get race experience, and what does it do? Does it have any effect at all?

geoschmo · #3 December 3rd, 2002, 02:15 AM

According to the history.txt file experience gained for destroying fighters is at a lower rate than that for ships. Perhaps ssekers are included in that. If so it could make it very difficult to figure out how much experience is gained from X number of ships being destroyed.

Geoschmo

capnq · #4 December 3rd, 2002, 12:06 AM

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How do you get race experience, and what does it do? Does it have any effect at all?

From the Frequently Asked Questions For Newbies:

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5.7.8 Racial experience has no meaning, a theory has it that it's a feature that isn't implemented.

Establishing new colonies is one thing that earns racial experience points; I'm not sure what else does. The only thing racial experience seems to affect is the description of your race's Age.

PvK · #5 December 3rd, 2002, 12:14 AM

Drones also give a lot less than 1 ship experience per kill, but they do seem to give some. I don't think shooting down seekers gives very much experience, if any.

PvK · #6 December 3rd, 2002, 12:18 AM

Race experience is earned for all sorts of things, as I recall. Colonization, building things, fighting, etc. It's mainly supposed to give an indication to human opponents of how long their opponent has been playing using the same empire, assuming the player keep using the same .EMP file in multiple games.

Originally, it was intended to give a small bonus to this or that, as well, but I don't think it does currently. It would be sort of interesting, but a bit unfair since players with deranged priorities could auto-run their EMP files through thousands of turns just to get a bonus...

PvK

Fyron · #7 December 3rd, 2002, 12:52 AM

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Originally posted by PvK:
Race experience is earned for all sorts of things, as I recall. Colonization, building things, fighting, etc. It's mainly supposed to give an indication to human opponents of how long their opponent has been playing using the same empire, assuming the player keep using the same .EMP file in multiple games.

Originally, it was intended to give a small bonus to this or that, as well, but I don't think it does currently. It would be sort of interesting, but a bit unfair since players with deranged priorities could auto-run their EMP files through thousands of turns just to get a bonus...

PvK

I wouldn't call myself deranged, but I made a mod to get to god-like age for the Vorlon empire file I used in several PBW games. You get ship tonnage / 10 experience for each ship you build. Make a 50,000 kT ship size, and you can get any experience level you want with only 100 or so turns.