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First of all, thank U very much on that guide! \/
I have, however, questions (i crawled the post till pages 20ish before i gave up -
hopefully the following questions were not answered later on):
(i) Most interesting to me, would it be possible for you to explain the role of the seamen
in a quantitative way (by formula)? I think many players would be happy about a clearer
statement than that of NF ("boosting the ability of all sailors").
(ii) You stated: "Class all sailors right when a promotion becomes available... exception:
pilots loose recruit gain per level after promotions".
After some first calculations I made within your framework, it seems to me, that there are
more oportunities to not promote a sailor at the first possibility.
(ii.1) - KM Engineers (have not thought about other supporters & nations yet):
Starting at lvl 12 with a KM classed, bare support sailor, his growth rates of support are
G_0 := (rep | rest | engy) = (base+8 | base+8 | base+10).
In the following one can successively promote that sailor to 2nd, 1st and Chf. Engineer
thus resulting in the final growth rate (reached at lvl 65) of
G_end:= G_0 + (- 7 - 5 - 4| - 7 - 5 - 4 | + 4 + 3 + 2) = (base - 8 | base - 8 | base +19).
Consider now we keep the sailor as clean support sailor with growth of G_0 and delay the
promotion to 2nd and 1st Engineer until we hit lvl 65. At this point the promotion of
Chf. Engineer becomes available, which we accept (of course after claiming 2nd & 1st
engineer at lvl 65). That way we are instantaneously up to the above mentioned growth of
G_end.
As far as I understood, however, two things will happen due to our inactivity of 36 lvl's
(lvl 29 [2nd] to lvl 65 [Chf]). First, we'll miss the mid-step promotions of
(- 7 - 5 | - 7 - 5 | + 4 + 3) for that 36 lvl's
and second, we'll miss the crew size increase coming along with the promotions. Latter
means the true ability decreases, because of the smaller crew sizes (less exp/vets). Yet,
the first essentially means: Compared or relative to a regular promoted Engineer with
a displayed ability of DA_lvl65_regular at lvl 65, we would have the (relative) gain of
(+7 | +7 | -4) for 36 lvl's (delayed 2nd engineer) and
(+5 | +5 | -3) for 13 lvl's (delayed 1st engineer),
which would yield in a (relative) displayed ability {DA} of about
DA_lvl65_regular + (+300 | +300 | -180).
Getting a better grasp at that values:
A boosted lvl 120 KM Elite Engineer that was regularly promoted will have a displayed ability
{DA} of about (900 | 900 | 4100).
If, however, promoted as described above, one would end up with about 33% more DA in
repair AND restore by sacrificing less than 5% of DA in Engy. Drawing the comparison to a
regular promoted, boosted lvl 120 KM Elite REPAiR with about 3700 of DA in repair we note,
that approximately 4 regularly promoted Engineers would be necessary to compete, whereas
already 3 of our Engineers would do.
Assumed the above stated is free of errors (???), such delayed Engineers could be
interesting for SS to raise the repair rate and SD at a small cost of overheat as well as
for BB by using 3 or 4 of them to raise the repair.
OPEN QUESTiON:
On the one hand the preceding paragraph emerged up to now only upon rough estimations of
me and on the other hand I was until now only talking of the displayed ability. But as we
all know from page -1- of this post, one needs to take into account the composition of the
crew (exp/vets) and thus the effective crew size itself when calculating the true ability
and caps.
Hmmm... but at this stage the knot in my head is grown already heavy and I hope you
Adalbert or someone else could step in to help me out when it comes to the extrapolation of
the impact of the loss of crew size versus the gain of displayed ability {DA} with regard
to the final true ability in the support categories. (Maybe one need to start by assuming
a 'representative' crew composition of 100 vets filled up with experts until max crew
size... or maybe I simply started by a false assumption, overlooking a key feature...)
(ii.2) Sonarman & Planesman for SS
Even a bit harder as the above case to estimate the outcome of delayed promotions onto the
the support categories of such sailors, because the final growth rate
[KM nation] G_end = (base - 13 | base - 13 | base - 11)
would be negative or close to zero (boosted sailor).
I would appreciate any help, tips (or even a guess by Albert) regarding the
above stated questions.
PS: A note to NF forum manager. Writing and editing is quiet annoying, because neither
there is a preview function nor the text is displayed as edited. NF, WAKE UP!!! You had
enough time by now!!! Start to fix the bugs and errors!!!
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