XP, Commander XP and flag usage.

[Tommygun]

Im not sure Im getting this flag thing right...
Am I right in assuming that XP flags are a waste of time on ships that have been fully researched and you have the next ship in the line..unless its tier 10 and your captain is 19pt in which case the XP get converted into elite commander XP)? (Im not ever going to use cash to convert these points into freexp)
At the moment Im trying to get 19 point captains (I only have 1 tier10 ship). I only use commander XP on my 19pt captains so its converted. Im trying to only use XP flags on the teir 10 ship so that too is converted into elite XP. As soon as I have enough Elite XP I just boost the next closest captain to a 19pt top rank and then pump him for points. Is this an efficient way to do it?

On another note in terms of collections. I never trade duplicates until I have enough for ALL the rest, not 1 at a time.

[Torchfire]

It's not too efficient, no.

The way EXP works, is that ship EXP is based on base EXP + bunuses, while commander and free EXP are based on the ship EXP + bonuses.
Meaning that even if you have an elite ship, using ship EXP boosting camos/signal flags will still provide you with a bonus to commander and free EXP. And, if you use camos and signals that boost both ship and commander EXP, you could get a very high commander EXP, even if your base EXP wasn't too high.
So, you might want to use the ship EXP boosting camos/signals in order to increase your commander EXP.

The only thing elite ship EXP does, is to allow you to convert it into free EXP using doublons. Not worth it, in my opinion.

But you might be better off taining your commanders most of the way directly, using your Elite Commander EXP primarily to retrain them to other ships, or to boost low point ones until they are useful.

Also, you don't have to use 19 point captains just on tier 10 ships. You can use them on any of them. Their commander EXP will automatically become Elite Commander EXP.

[cantila1]

Often the extra points after the first 14 or so, are not going into skills as useful as those before. So I would rather distribute my exp among my commanders than to top them out one after another and thus having a lot of commanders that doesn't provide concealment to my ships (for example).

[Tommygun]

Thnx for replies. The good thing about tier 10 ships is you generally get more points if you do ok. At the moment I with flags and the current 100% boost for first win I can often get between 12-15k elite points to use on other commanders in a game. Im sure many ppl do way more but thats good for me.

[Ryuu]

Yeap, as said above — it's not a complete waste, so if you got too much of those — can use a bit even on elite or premium ships. But generally it's more beneficial for non-elite ships.

Consider using premium ships for levelling commanders, they provide somewhat increased XP by themselves + bonus from their permanent camouflage. If you have enough better 1-use camouflages — it's not a problem, but if not — it allows you to save them up for a better use.
Tech tree ships with permanent camouflages can be used instead, just more difficult to transfer commanders.