Are Frigates and Destroyers an XP drain?

[PeterNicolaysen]

Hi

I was wondering, if a single player map is played with only a light cruiser and a lot of smaller ships, frigates and destroyers, are the xp distributed between the ships or do the cruiser get them all at the end of the mission?

Regards
Peter

[Ashardalon]

all ships get the xp for the mission
the xp is for the mission and for surviving the mission(not warped out, dead things dont get xp)
not per kill or distributed among ships
each ship that does a mission gets the xp for having been in a mission
if you can fit more line ships you are kindof wasting xp, but if you have room you cant fill you dont lose out on xp
you do lose out on a little renown tho, all points unspent are given as extra renown after the mission

[PeterNicolaysen]

Thanks for the info!

I just played a mission were i was defeated for some reason by warping out a ship, it was simply to damaged to continue fighting, instead of the mission continuing with my remaining Battle Cruiser i got the defeated screen, is this normal or a bug?

Regards
Peter

[Ashardalon]

you needed to destroy stations and reach the other side with two line ships?
if you only have 1 line ship you lose

was it a breaktrough mission?