Ship and fleet experience

Grandpa Kim · #1 January 23rd, 2004, 05:32 AM

Sorry PVK, there were only 4 ships in that fleet, so my best guess is the DUC ship killed 2, the PD ship killed 2 plus about 40 missiles. But where did the 2% fleet experience come from... especially in light of Primitive's post-- 39 kill 92 and get only 1%?

primitive · #2 January 24th, 2004, 01:19 PM

Mystery resolved

Bad news is it opens for a small exploit

Ask Aaron to fix it in the next patch or publish for everyone to use ?

Maerlyn · #3 January 25th, 2004, 02:23 AM

I vote for sending it to Aaron while keeping it secret. I guess that besides you noone knows this bug yet. so dont tell it to anyone, and dont exploit it yoursef

Fyron · #4 January 25th, 2004, 01:11 AM

You would have to be a pretty low person to resort to such obvious bug exploitation.

oleg · #5 January 25th, 2004, 05:13 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
You would have to be a pretty low person to resort to such obvious bug exploitation.

Whom do you accuse here ?? Maerlin' post was perfectly fine.

Asmala · #6 January 26th, 2004, 05:11 PM

I have bugged Aaron (few times) and I got better answers.

Ship experience
+1% for every kill
small amount for seekers, fighters, drones and satellites
none for troops and weapon platforms

Fleet experience
for each kill made by a ship in a fleet, there is a 25% chance that the fleet gets 0.1% experience

I don't know whether fleets get experience for destroying units but I've asked it of Aaron. No reply yet.

geoschmo · #7 January 26th, 2004, 05:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Asmala:
Fleet experience
for each kill made by a ship in a fleet, there is a 25% chance that the fleet gets 0.1% experience

Well now, THIS explains a lot.

No wonder we were getting different results every time we ran our tests. For once he sticks a random element in the game and then doesn't tell anyone about it.

Quote:

Originally posted by Asmala:
I don't know whether fleets get experience for destroying units but I've asked it of Aaron. No reply yet.

I'm gonna guess no. One of my tests had a fleet with plenty of PDC facing several ships with missles. While the ships gained individual experience at a slow rate, the fleet gained none. Even with it being only a 1 in 4 chance of getting any experience, with the number of missles my fleet destroyed I would think I would have seen something.

[ January 26, 2004, 15:24: Message edited by: geoschmo ]