ORIGINAL: CV Zuikaku
Yes, they completely screwed up the training after patch "tweaking".
Djordje, are you using training groups? Do you know why fresh trainees can not be pulled into the groups when I send the experienced ones into reserve pool? I chenge the group aircraft type, transfer a few repaired ones to new base and disband the rest. Now I have training groups with 3 pilots, and I can add aircraft to those units, but can not draw trainee pilots [:@] Anyone got the solution for this problem?
I stopped bothering with training when I realized there are things that really needs to be addressed as they are breaking the whole crucially important part of the game. But one solution for your problem could be just to wait few more days - once you draw replacements into the squadron you won't be able to pull new ones for some time (not sure about exact time frame, 7-12 days is for some reason on my mind).
One more thing, which could probably make you stop using training at all:
Let's say your Trained pilot pool is empty, and when I say empty it means no general reserves in it. For easier understanding I will only talk about one type, fighters, but it is same for all types. So you have no Fighter reserves in Trained pilot pool, only few pilots with squadrons already assigned to them. Now, if you pull pilots into any squadron you will get exp 35 pilots from Reserve pool (since the Trained pool is empty), and you will want to avoid that by disbanding some squadrons into the Trained pilot pool to make them Fighter reserve. Now experience hit comes into play, your training squadrons with experience of 60 suddenly become 54 when you disband it. Ok, you swallow the bitter pill and decide you can live with the penalty...
And now real killer comes into play - let's say one of your earlier disbanded squadrons (or new one) enters the game, and you want to fill it with new recruits to start new cycle of training... So you happily click on Get pilots and guess what - pilots that you just disbanded into pool, the ones that took experience hit from 60 to 54, they are the ones that are being pulled!
Now people could say you should pull them into front line squadrons first but that completely kills their purpose. Trained pilot pool should be strategic reserve, and player should not be forced to keep it empty so he can pull new recruits into training squadrons.
So to make it short - Once you disband pilots into Trained pool you can't pull new recruits into squadrons that you use for training as the trained pilots will be taken first. And since there is experience hit every time you disband pilots into Trained pool you are forced to keep that pool empty or your training on map will be pointless (as you will train pilots, just to disband them into the pool to take exp hit, and to be pulled into training squadron again, with lesser experience).
