questions about strategy

I'll let Capt Kwok answer 1 and 2. But 3 and 4 go kinda like this in the stock game.

3. Crew experience increases in combat situations. More experience means better aiming and more hits on enemy ship and better defensive fire. Learning this in combat is not the best way to gain experience. (Failures are usually fatal.)

4. Ship Training Academies increase crew experience without getting your ships all shot up. Fleet Training Academies increase the efficiency of all your ships in a fleet and increase their "cohesion" in combat. All without actually getting shot at.

Think of it this way. The first time you pick up a bow and arrow, you're not gonna hit your target. The hundredth time you pick up a bow and arrow, you're likely to hit the bullseye. It's much easier to learn to use a bow and arrow on a practice field than it is to learn with other people shooting arrows back at you!

Directive 721: Cover your own a$$ first. Solo

1. Not at present. The next patch is supposed to allow this.

2. Don't worry about it. It's a term for building cheap (can be lower tech or maybe less components) ships and refitting them up to current specs. Speeds up production, but is expensive.

I saw another post on the forum that said you could change the values for the strategies, and I've seen, but not changed them in my game. I like to do small things not big things, and haven't really had combat, which I expect to change after I learn the basic and challenge you all to MP and get my butt kicked. In any case, if I remember right, you can change the base strategies for a type, like "run" to do what you want, which might be kamakazie. It's under the empire button.

Casca
The Immortal Soldier