Fleet experiance, how is it earned.

Master Belisarius · #1 December 2nd, 2002, 04:42 AM

I'm 100% sure that to get experience, the ship must have direct fire weapons. Ships with seekers doesn't get experience.
Also, killing fighters and seekers, can generate experience.

Baron Munchausen · #2 December 2nd, 2002, 06:11 AM

Originally it didn't work, and ships using only seekers did not gain experience. For a while in the late pre-Gold patches you DID get experience for destroying the enemy with seekers. Which was nice. But it broke and hasn't been fixed again since.

It would be nice to have this back but it might be a lot of hassle to track what ship fired what seekers. I'd rather see experienced awarded for combat experience in general rather than the accident of the final kill anyway. Maybe 1 percent experience for every 100 turns in combat or something like that. Of course, this too can be a settable ratio in the text config files.

Krsqk · #3 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 · #4 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 · #5 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 · #6 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 · #7 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.