Pilot Training Test

[findmeifyoucan]

Of course this all depends on how aggressive your opponent is. If you are Japanese this is good but the question is how long can you maintain this. If you are the Japanese I think this will be difficult.

[Nemo121]

Allied side...

[freeboy]

Yep, I found as an allied pbem player not until my losses started to taiper of did pilot qaulity jump, but after the losses start to swing in my favor, my better pilots start living longer and its a snowballing effect of increased performance, longer pilot life and better values feeding back to better performance, a great feedback loop...\
 

[CapAndGown]

I am bumping this important test of the pilot training system. People should be aware that having veteran pilots/TRACOM capable pilots in a squadron does not seem to increase the speed at which experience is gained.

[Sredni]

Good info, thanks for bumping an old thread.

I wonder if anyone has noticed what I have though, in regards to the highest exp pilot in a group on training. I find that the pilot with the highest experience doesn't seem to gain the skill that's being trained anywhere near as fast as the rest of the group. So if I have a group of complete noobs fresh out of the pools, 30exp, low skills and start them training airskill, within 2 or 3 months most of those pilots are closing on 50 experience and 70 airskill, except the one guy who happened to be at the top of the exp list. He gained experience along with everyone else and stayed as the highest exp pilot, but his airskill gains were much lower and he's probably ended up at around 50-60 airskill after those 3 months instead of 70ish like everyone else.

For that reason alone I like to put one veteran in each group. But I havn't seen anyone else mention noticing this.

[Djordje]

SeethingErmine,

First of all I want to thank you for finding time to do this test, it is really informative.

I pay very close attention to pilot training in my game, and I have set some training grounds with lots of airgroups with same training parameters and occasional control group. For example I have set 3 Manchuria based chutais with 12 Nates in the same temperate base, two of them having leaders with 40 leadership and third having 65 and over three months the one with best leader got 3 points of experience difference.

In my opinion what your test needs is additional 30 or 60 days game time. When skills and experience are low they seem to progress at about the same pace, but once they go higher (exp over 50 skill over 60) differences begins to emerge. It seems that when trainee experience and skill approach leader's it slows down, which ensures that better leaders can train pilots to higher values. At least that's what I see in my game.

The thing I am currently testing in my game is using leaders with very high leadership, and one veteran per squadron that has very high air and def skill (80+). Such training squadrons do seem to progress much faster. I don't record my data into sheet but I do check all squadrons for green numbers in pilot list and general feeling I have in over 6 months of game time is that squadrons with good leaders and one skilled veteran are notably "greener" when I look at pilot list (they progress much faster).

Like I said, if you have time try to extend testing period for 60 more turns, I think that difference will be shown then.

[Djordje]

ORIGINAL: Sredni

Good info, thanks for bumping an old thread.

I wonder if anyone has noticed what I have though, in regards to the highest exp pilot in a group on training. I find that the pilot with the highest experience doesn't seem to gain the skill that's being trained anywhere near as fast as the rest of the group. So if I have a group of complete noobs fresh out of the pools, 30exp, low skills and start them training airskill, within 2 or 3 months most of those pilots are closing on 50 experience and 70 airskill, except the one guy who happened to be at the top of the exp list. He gained experience along with everyone else and stayed as the highest exp pilot, but his airskill gains were much lower and he's probably ended up at around 50-60 airskill after those 3 months instead of 70ish like everyone else.

For that reason alone I like to put one veteran in each group. But I havn't seen anyone else mention noticing this.

Yes, my experience was the same. Higher exp pilots are rarely getting anything, but lower exp guys progress faster. They seem to trade their own training for the training of newbies, which I like as they act as teachers. Once newbies catch up with instructors they all start improving, but at much slower rate.

From time to time I have seen even my 79 air skilled instructor increase his skill which really put a smile on my face.