Pilot experience gain/loss proposal

[dwbradley]

A possible wrinkle to add to the pilot experience adjustment routines has occurred to me. This would be for the future, for certain, but it seems that it is ok to throw out ideas here and now so that they can be discussed and added to some wish list or thrown on the scrap-heap. My apology if this has been previously discussed.

As I understand it, pilot experience in AE is not a single variable but a set of variables for the various kind of missions ( level bombing, fighter A2A, ASW, search, etc.). Operational missions build experience for the particular missions flown. So, if a unit that has been flying, oh say, level bombing missions and building experience for that is switched to ASW then they would stop building LB experience and start gaining ASW experience. My thought is that skills atrophy over time and it would be appropriate to gradually reduce the LB level bombing skills (actually all others) while flying ASW missions. These skill reductions should not go lower than some minimum (let’s say 70 but I have no real idea what would be the correct value).

In a similar vein, raw rookie pilots with low across the board experience levels (let’s say for an example 35) should get some increase in all experience categories (up to some minimum, let’s say 50 for discussion purposes) while flying any particular mission. This would reflect the transferable skills gained just from flying missions in a combat zone.

I suspect this idea would greatly complicate the pilot experience code but it’s nice to think it could appear in some update, some day.

Dave Bradley

[TheElf]

You'd be surprised what is already in AE...your thoughts are not too far off.

[dwbradley]

ORIGINAL: TheElf

You'd be surprised what is already in AE...your thoughts are not too far off.

That's very nice to hear. And yet another appetite whetter.

Thanks

Dave Bradley