Crew Promotions?

[SWFanatic]

How do you level up your crew? In the in-game encylopedia thing it described the effect of the different ranks but I couldn't find anywhere in-game or outside that explains how you do that.

[Frostycakes]

Best I can tell, killing ships with said ship, directly. Just finished a game with my 'Carrier' still at Rookie status, with my main Gunboat being Elite.

[SWFanatic]

Huh...yeah I finished it with my 3 ships all rookies. I used alot of fighters though, maybe the capital ships need to get the kills?

[BoydofZINJ]

If your capital ship gets the kill - it gains exp. Which means - you need to be non carriers, initially - even though fighters are OP. Use fighters, to help you out, not to kill.

[SWFanatic]

Willdo. Thanks.

[SamBC]

Each time you kill an enemy ship with the guns on one of your ships (not fighters, and I'm not sure about torpedoes) you have a chance to level up at the end of the battle. From what was said in the streams, it's not a case of building up experience, but rather a random chance each time.

Also, I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like it only counts for killing ships that count for mission points. So some missions, where there's no score for killing ships, you can't level up in. And possibly 'drone' and 'bot' type ships aren't included. Maybe one of those but not the other. I'm still trying to work out why some kills don't give points.

[Avalanche]

Originally posted by SamBC:

Each time you kill an enemy ship with the guns on one of your ships (not fighters, and I'm not sure about torpedoes) you have a chance to level up at the end of the battle. From what was said in the streams, it's not a case of building up experience, but rather a random chance each time.

Also, I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like it only counts for killing ships that count for mission points. So some missions, where there's no score for killing ships, you can't level up in. And possibly 'drone' and 'bot' type ships aren't included. Maybe one of those but not the other. I'm still trying to work out why some kills don't give points.

Seems kinda stupid way of doing it, if you ask me.

[Avalanche]

Originally posted by SWFanatic:

Huh...yeah I finished it with my 3 ships all rookies. I used alot of fighters though, maybe the capital ships need to get the kills?

By any chance, was you using a trainer or cheating of any kind? cheat engine perhaps? cause i was and my crew stayed as rookies and i never gained any achievements....the same thing happend with using cheat engine and a trainer.

Without it, after a single fight, one of my ships gained rank.

[Proteus]

In fleet battles (i.e. between you and an AI player) it seems to me like the most important shipo (and the one that gives your crews a chance to level up) is the enemy flagship.
At least it is this which always is mentioned in the After Action report connected to the leveling of crews ... i.e. the crews all ships that help in bringing the enemy flagship down (by damaging it) seem to have the chance for crew leveling.

[SWFanatic]

Originally posted by Jamie:

Originally posted by SWFanatic:

Huh...yeah I finished it with my 3 ships all rookies. I used alot of fighters though, maybe the capital ships need to get the kills?

By any chance, was you using a trainer or cheating of any kind? cheat engine perhaps? cause i was and my crew stayed as rookies and i never gained any achievements....the same thing happend with using cheat engine and a trainer.

Without it, after a single fight, one of my ships gained rank.

Nope, I wasn't using any cheats and I unlocked several achievements in that playthrough.

[centech]

its very rare or buggy i think. i finished games with more than 30 fights and 2 of 3 ships were rockies the other elite (both only used lasers and plasma). I always tryed to last hit with my flag ship but it never got any rank.

[SWFanatic]

I also lost to a science victory when I set it to domination only at the start. So that was fun?

[Avalanche]

Originally posted by SWFanatic:

I also lost to a science victory when I set it to domination only at the start. So that was fun?

i am thinking those victories you choose are for you......

[Tripas]

Originally posted by Jamie:

Originally posted by SamBC:

Each time you kill an enemy ship with the guns on one of your ships (not fighters, and I'm not sure about torpedoes) you have a chance to level up at the end of the battle. From what was said in the streams, it's not a case of building up experience, but rather a random chance each time.

Also, I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like it only counts for killing ships that count for mission points. So some missions, where there's no score for killing ships, you can't level up in. And possibly 'drone' and 'bot' type ships aren't included. Maybe one of those but not the other. I'm still trying to work out why some kills don't give points.

Seems kinda stupid way of doing it, if you ask me.

VERY stupid, yeah.

Originally posted by Jamie:

Originally posted by SWFanatic:

I also lost to a science victory when I set it to domination only at the start. So that was fun?

i am thinking those victories you choose are for you......

Yep, locking victories only affects the player. Which, again, is really freaking stupid because when people lock a victory condition like, say, Science in Civilization, it's because they don't want to be close to winning a game only to have an opponent launching their rocket before they're done. And the same basic principle SHOULD apply to Starships.

[SWFanatic]

Wow thats counter-intuitive and pointless.

[SamBC]

Let's keep it to promotions here, there are other threads talking about the victory options.