Fleet experiance, how is it earned.

[Krsqk]

"I don't think shooting down seekers gives very much experience, if any."
I set a fleet up to run out of supplies shortly into a battle against a bunch of missile boats. Main weapons wouldn't fire, but PDC did. They started with 0% exp, and the fleet had 50% legendary when the battle ended. No ship had more than 10% exp, though.

[DirectorTsaarx]

Originally posted by Krsqk:

It took 41 ships killed to get fleet experience up to 1%.

It took 40 of the same cruisers to get to fleet experience 1% (ship experience 40%).

It took 47 of the same cruisers to get to fleet experience 1% (ship experience ranged from 0% to 4%).

A battle between the 19 fleet (reconstituted with 0% fleet experience) and a group of 80 cruisers generated 2% fleet experience (combat turns extended to 999).

In other words, the answer is that fleet experience does not rely on tonnage, damage, fleet count, ship experience, or any other rational explanation. Rather, it is a random function triggered by unexplained cosmic phenomena.

To my eyes, it looks like the ratio is about 40 cruisers per point of fleet experience, regardless of fleet size. There's obviously some variability, perhaps based on number of battles required (rounding errors per battle?). All of which explains a lot.

It's also possible, (based on someone else's post about gaining 50 points of fleet experience for killing only seekers) that it's N kills per point, N (maybe) being different for each type of kill (seeker, fighter, satellite, drone, ship, base). I have no idea if glassing planets or destroying weapon platforms grants experience to either fleets or ships.

[PvK]

Originally posted by Krsqk:
"I don't think shooting down seekers gives very much experience, if any."
I set a fleet up to run out of supplies shortly into a battle against a bunch of missile boats. Main weapons wouldn't fire, but PDC did. They started with 0% exp, and the fleet had 50% legendary when the battle ended. No ship had more than 10% exp, though.

Which Version of the game was this? Sounds like a potential cheat of annoying importance.

PvK

[Krsqk]

It was Gold v1.78. I modded combat turns to run to 255; this was on full tech start (for ease of testing). IIRC, it was something like 20 mostly-PDC LCs against ~35-40 missile CRs.