"Stellen sie ihre Mannschaft zusammen und treten den U-Booten der NFNA bei." better write it this way... i translated it a bit more freely so it fits better with german speaking style. e.g. "now" is commonly used in English but its German translation "sofort" has a rather harsh character.

This is all great information.

In my opinion, what would make it even better is if you DID assume the reader doesn't know a thing about NF in general.

Actually, I think the forum needs a glossary.

Something to explain:

B/V/E
SD
XP Boosted
Vetted, Overvetted Etc.

I still have no idea what some of that stuff is or how to figure it anyway.

Thanks for the feedback, SSN762.

I'm planning for the next revision to be a major reworking of the guide, since it's scope has changed from the first time I put this information together.

Until then, however:

SD is short for soft defense. The short story is that this is the tangible result of your sailors' collective restore abilities--instead of taking direct damage, you burn for part of it, spreading out the incoming damage over time. NF-guides explains it in greater depth: http://www.nf-guides.com/common.htm#soft_defense

Vetting is slang for adding veterans to a sailor. Attempting to promote experts to veterans is the main way to do this. Veteran packs can be bought with olives and used to convert experts to veterans with 100% success rate, but only up to 100 total vets per sailor.

Vetted generally implies 100 veterans. Overvetting refers to going past this practical limit. The more veterans a sailor has, the less likely the next conversion will succeed, which is partly why the "standard" vet amount is 100. Veterans are hard-capped at 40% of the crew capacity of the sailor (ie. 200 vets max for a sailor that can fit 500 crew).

BVE is short for boosted, vetted and experted. Boost is slang for premium sailors, e.g. the +20% growth and ability boost you can buy with olives. Vetted is as above; normally ~100. Experted means that all the rest of the space not used by veterans is full of experts--practically, a high-level sailor with less than 50 rookies can still be considered BVE.

I'm not sure what you mean by XP boosted. What context did you see this used in?

Actually, there should have been a coma between, XP and Boosted but, my typo netted a gain of more information so lets go with it.

yes, after having a 95 level KM torpedo man, i suggest you to have a elite repair sailor base, and use as an torpedo man

SS4 (L74): BO, 2 T-slot sailors, 2 R-slot sailors, 3 support sailors
Any support slots that your planesman and sonar are not filling should be used for engineers

Can sonar/planesman go in the R slots? Engineers have to go in support slots, but repairers can go anywhere, can sonar/plane go anywhere like a repairer or only in a support slot?