Doing the math on rank ups

posted on September 2nd, 2009, 1:42 pm

Okay, this is a rather minor thing. But I was thinking about this. If a Federation Monsoon class was lucky to get the last shot on a Tavara or a Borg Cube. Doing the Math it should rank up at least twice. But it doesn't, only once. So I was wondering what happens to the left over xp. I also wonder if maybe it should carry into the next rank, so if it ads up to a second rankup, it enables such.

Personally that is what I think. If a monsoon was lucky enough to get the final shot and got enough experience to rank twice, it should.

posted on September 2nd, 2009, 1:48 pm

It might just disappear (like exp given to fighters or veterans), though I'm sure a ship of mine skipped a rank before...

posted on September 2nd, 2009, 2:41 pm

When a ship ranks up, the xp counter is set back to zero, so it will never skip a rank.

I wish xp wasn't just gained from the last shot though.

posted on September 2nd, 2009, 3:08 pm

Yeah, it seems illogical for it to go back to zero instead of just having the previously required XP to be subtracted. Because if you had been a Leutenant and you had performed worthy of a Commander rank, you shouldn't just be promoted to Leutenant Commander, you should be promoted to the rank of Commander.

posted on September 2nd, 2009, 7:02 pm

out of balancing (and formula) reasons, a vessel can never skip a rank. At max you can get one complete level up per kill

posted on September 2nd, 2009, 7:09 pm

Strange... a ship of mine went from level 1 to 3, despite only having one kill... Probably a one-off goof or something.

posted on September 2nd, 2009, 7:27 pm

Strange... a ship of mine went from level 1 to 3, despite only having one kill... Probably a one-off goof or something.

should not happen. if this is really the case then this is a bug

posted on September 2nd, 2009, 7:38 pm

awesome! level 7 tavara here I come!

posted on September 4th, 2009, 3:13 pm

lol too bad there is no code for that ship

posted on September 4th, 2009, 3:16 pm

Yopu could probably make that easily...the rank icon, not so easily.

posted on September 4th, 2009, 4:20 pm

Would there ever be hero ships? Like ships that are little bit stronger than their average versions and have special weapons unique to them? I could probably make it where you'd have to get somethin thousand XP to upgrade to a leader class which like rank 5 can then upgrade to a hero.

posted on September 4th, 2009, 4:26 pm

'Hero Ships' keep getting mentioned, and I'm sure that every time (just about) someone says that veterans are the Hero Ships. Plus, upgrading a Rank5 to a 'hero' would support that since veterans are Rank6.

posted on September 4th, 2009, 5:18 pm

I thought "Hero ships" were intended for missions/campaigns. Martok's Negvhar', Picccard's Sovereign, etc.

They shouldn't be accesible in instant action or multiplayer maps, AFAIK.