Have you ever been Experienced?

[Baron Munchausen]

Also, if someone hasn't mentioned it already, you should only gain experience for destroying ARMED ships. Another very easy way to build up huge experience levels is to sit your ships on a warp point into a system where the AI wants to colonize and pick off the colony ships as they stream in. Rarely is the AI focused enough to send more than a few warships at a time to clear out the path to the desired planets.

Ideally, there should be a player settable "tonnage to gain 1 experience" setting in the settings.txt file. Of course, you should never gain more than 1 percent per ship in any case, but being able to specify 20000 tons destroyed to gain a point of experience would be nice. "Legendary" ships would become much more valuable.

[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 28 March 2001).]

[Suicide Junkie]

Umm. 20,000 tons per XP?

A frigate weighs 200,000 tons.
And colony ships weigh lots. 300kT?

How would this work?

[AJC]

the way I understand fleet experience is that it is only applied to the ships while the ships are in the fleet and Your firing ship's chance to hit is modified by the targets ship experience , the target ship's fleet experience and any ECM bonuses the target ship may have.



[This message has been edited by AJC (edited 29 March 2001).]