Have you ever been Experienced?

Puke · #1 January 31st, 2001, 05:11 AM

on gaining experience (i need to try this, but maybe someone else knows):

you cant psychicly train MC controlled ships. however, you can put both a bridge / crew AND an MC on a ship. do these ships get trained by psychic facilities?

Thats silly you say! who the heck would build a ship that way, you ask! you play a PBEM game with more than 3 humans with high starting tech, and then come back and tell me your not more than a little worried about psychic crew conVersion and/or MC viral distruction.

Tomgs · #2 January 31st, 2001, 09:49 AM

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Originally posted by Noble713:
I think the fleet bonus affects every ship in the fleet. Isn't this in Malfador's FAQ?

I wish this were true I have experimented with it. The fleet experience does nothing that I can see. The "ship" experience however does help a lot. Makes me wonder why I should spend that time and resources to research and build fleet facilities. Try taking your legendary fleet and save the game before a battle, look at the to hit chances with your ships at a certain distance, go back to the saved game and assign the ships to a brand new fleet with no experience (or just hold shift and select the ships to attack with no fleet) there will be no change in the attack percentages. I also made the computer opponent in this battle human controlled in my experiment so I could see if the defence went up with fleet exp. there was no change to that either.

I E-mailed Malfador about this a while ago (over a month now) and got no response.

alasyr · #3 January 31st, 2001, 11:06 AM

I'm just guessing, I didn't try to see if it's true or not, possibly not, but here it goes.Maybe the fleet bonus is divided among the ships (divided by the numbers of ships in fleet).So the bigger the fleet, smaller the gain for fleet bonuses.

jowe01 · #4 March 24th, 2001, 06:56 PM

It is an older post but has anything happend by now ? Does fleet experience actually do anything in 1.30 ? If not, what are fleet training facilities for ?

And another point which got never clear to me: does SHIP experience affect ship defence and is it a 1 to 1 relationship (3% experience means that 3% are deducted from the ennemy's to-hit chance) ?

Felan · #5 March 24th, 2001, 07:55 PM

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 · #6 March 24th, 2001, 10:44 PM

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

Will · #7 March 25th, 2001, 07:13 AM

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.