Have you ever been Experienced?

[DirectorTsaarx]

AFAIK, experience is supposed to grant to-hit bonuses and to-not-be-hit bonuses. However, ISTR that only ship experience really counts for this; fleet experience doesn't seem to be applied to anything. And ship experience is only gained by destroying things with direct-fire weapons. If you destroy a ship/planet/base with missiles, you get no experience for the kill. OTOH, using PD cannon DOES coutnt for experience: each fighter, each missile, and each satellite killed counts for experience. So put a couple PD Cannon on each ship, put them in battle against fighters/missiles/satellites, and watch the experience grow!

As for fleet experience: I'm not certain about this, but I think fleet experience is the average experience gained by the ships in the fleet since the time the fleet was created. In other words, if you have three ships with 20% experience each and merge them into a fleet, the fleet experience starts at 0%. If one ship increases to 30%, the fleet experience would be 3% (10 point increase, divided by three ships). But I could be WAY off on this...