ORIGINAL: Mogami
Hi, The get pilot button added nothing. Only before when you drew aircraft you also drew pilots. So you never saw the "no fly" You could not draw aircraft and not get a pilot unless you already had more pilots then aircraft. (Before pilots would only be drawn by "ready" aircraft )and often you had to set groups to fly in order to get pilots. So the problem before get pilot was worse then it is now because I still can't understand why you would draw aircraft and not also draw pilots. I have never in 11 PBEM games had a group not fly because it was short a pilot.
Apollo no the group is just resting at 0 percent training while it waits to draw the replacement AC (so it can recover morale and rest) Once it has rested and recovered it will move back to combat. It does not require training as all pilots in the group are above what they can train to.
You will notice some of the CV groups are training. That is because there are a few sub 55exp pilots in the groups. (You can't avoid it) The Junyo and Hiyo for example arrive with understrength groups so to get them operational I had to add from my replacements
However a few of the pilots were only 52,53,54 not 55 so the groups are training. It is difficult now to add pilots in the 70's to my CV groups. (I have around 12 70+ fighter pilots left in training groups reserved for CV groups) There are no more Kate or Val pilots above 55 but I do have quite a number of 55's trained for all CV groups.
I have many sub 50 groups training. (many are now in the high 40's) (when I draw a pilot he comes in between 19-28 depending on how many I draw and how long since last draw.
I like to save at least 1 trained pilot for each group I assign to training so I hold groups till I have 1 trained pilot in the pool. (I only hold 1 group back per month)
If I have 3 trained pilots I tell 3 groups to take ac and then I draw 1 pilot to each before drawing the rest. This way they all get a 70+ pilot (good pilots help train the groups)
I think we always had the "no fly" problem just now people are blaming it on the "get pilot" button. Before you had to set a group to fly 100 percent to draw pilots. Now if you tell a group to draw AC just draw them the next turn.
IF YOU DON"T WANT UNTRAINED PILOTS DON"T DRAW AC. Instead transfer trained pilots to the group they bring their own AC.
Actually - unfortunately - I agree with this 100% - in other words ignore the "get pilot" button.
But then ... why the hecque did we spend scarce programmer time adding it - when there were significantly more important things to do ??? !!!
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