Dramatic SFB: Legendary officers using CO's

[Randy Blair]

I ran a campaign where crew quality was purchased as part of the ship build.
Otherwise, crew experience was just as it was in the Annex.

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 9:41 AM Don Lavanty via SFBdrama <
sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:

> Crew Experience would be interesting to keep but it would require a lot of
> extra work. Tracking which ships were in which battle or some indication to
> go from green to combat trained. I mean do we track shakedown cruises? Mock
> battles which would pull ships out of service to give them experience. Any
> ship just on monitor duty where no enemy ships appear what amount of
> experience do they have? etc. etc.
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 5:06 AM Gregory Flusche via SFBdrama <
> sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
>
>> Good points.
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:03 PM <wdpower at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Those scenario reports give use names of noted ships in battle, gaining
>>> crew experience can be Legendary, some actions are more noteworthy than
>>> others in battles. Some ships may gain many actions, and many victories. I
>>> think though, the Game does not need more re-fits (and the work load, ug),
>>> the Legendary are in the written text in the form of scenario battle
>>> reports, and campaign history.
>>>
>>> all good
>>> On Thursday, 20 June 2019, 12:50:02 pm AEST, Wayne Power via SFBdrama <
>>> sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I am very happy with the great work already done with these campaigns.
>>> (we have captains that battle against the odds often in the current
>>> campaigns, or do well in a scenario battle, we are already hearing of
>>> Legendary actions in the many campaign written scenario battle reports).
>>> .
>>> all good
>>> On Thursday, 20 June 2019, 11:12:02 am AEST, Matt via SFBdrama <
>>> sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> To do legendary officers and crew quality would take a lot of extra
>>> bookkeeping for the campaign.
>>>
>>>
>>> Not the kind of book keeping you would normally see. Often times, you
>>> would see an XP system. This is where each ship (or fleet, if such units
>>> are a thing in the book keeping) accrues a variable amount of points from
>>> battles. These points would eventually provide certain officers *et.
>>> al.* at certain levels. Often this is a book keeping headache, but
>>> bearable in comparison of the other book keeping chores such a campaign
>>> often uses.
>>>
>>>
>>> Dramatic SFB is intentionally "book keeping light". More in line with
>>> that effort, crew quality would be an option to purchase for ships. Each
>>> would effectively be another refit on top of what is available. So you
>>> would have a Fed CA, CAR, CAR+, CA w/ good crew, CA w/ navigator, CA w/
>>> navigator and good crew, CAR w/ good crew, CAR w/ captain, CAR+ w/.... *ad
>>> nausium*.
>>>
>>>
>>> Early in the development of the software, it was envisioned that
>>> scenario rewards would include things like gifting certain things to "the
>>> largest ship" or "the smallest ship" in the scenario. Such as giving a ship
>>> a certain partial-X-refit or a legendary officer of a certain type. As
>>> things matured, it was decided that such options would have to be enshrined
>>> in the database in order to carry-over from turn to turn and to balance
>>> BPVs properly.
>>>
>>>
>>> As you can see from above, it would take the current database of over
>>> 6,800 units and give each ship something like 10 more variants. Beyond what
>>> such an effort would do from a data-entry perspective or how the server
>>> will winnow through those, you can look at your build orders drop-down and
>>> envision 10 entries for every single current entry that you see. Then try
>>> to pick out the *one* entry that you want to build of those available.
>>>
>>>
>>> --Matt
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