So my German Surface fleet consisting of Battle ships cruisers light Cruisers and Destroyers the Capital ships have at least 4-5 screens per ship, Patrolling the Mediterranean Just off the coast of Benghazi . over time I noticed that the ships go from Experienced to downgraded to Trained. I thought with naval battles it would just be increasing? How can I prevent experience loss? Thanks for your input.
Naval exp loss
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IIRC, you lose XP when you take a certain amount of damage (or maybe it is critical hits).
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Warships, especially screens, suffer way too much experience loss from damage (particularly critical hits, as xtfoster mentioned). Its ordinary for a critical hit on a destroyer, for instance, to drop it to recruit-level experience.
I feel it should be fairly-obvious that if a sunken ship often has enough surviving crew to fill most of a new ship, then non-fatal damage shouldn't be killing off half a ship's crew. Similarly, dealing with crises like serious damage control should be making the crew more effective at dealing with it in the future, not less.
I feel it should be fairly-obvious that if a sunken ship often has enough surviving crew to fill most of a new ship, then non-fatal damage shouldn't be killing off half a ship's crew. Similarly, dealing with crises like serious damage control should be making the crew more effective at dealing with it in the future, not less.
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Ships lose XP in astonishing amount simply cause the service manpower loss rates are inflated.
I made a thread recently explaining the very root of it.
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Great Thread thanks this explain it! I feel like the experience loss is way overkill, my ships will never reach veteran status the way it is now. So these values I copied and pasted from your thread -if I wanted to try and change them in Defines.Lua Which ones would I change and to what value would be beneficial? Thanks!
“MANPOWER_LOSS_RATIO_ON_SUNK = 0.5, -- sunk ships will lose this ratio of their current manpower
MANPOWER_LOSS_RATIO_ON_STR_LOSS = 0.5, -- losing strength will make you also lose manpower at this ratio of total manpower
MIN_MANPOWER_RATIO_TO_DROP = 0.1, -- ships will not lose man power to below this ratio
DAILY_MANPOWER_GAIN_RATIO = 0.05, “
To begin with, it's rarely a good idea to change the game files directly; it works too, but requires constant re-shuffling once you need other mods or plain vanilla. Rather, you create a mod of your own and have fun over there (in C:\Users\*you*\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod\*yourmod*)
Then, create a *yourmod*_defines.lua file in mod\*yourmod*\common\defines and only include values you change (i.e. override), putting
NDefines.NNavy. before any actual line (in case you toy arond with just Navy).
As for the values, assuming you still want to stay realistic, I'd suggest dropping MANPOWER_LOSS_RATIO_ON_STR_LOSS to maybe 0.2
Make the same for MANPOWER_LOSS_RATIO_ON_SUNK if you too consider service manpower values to be inflated in the first place, albeit this one apparenltly won't help you to preserve ship experience. So
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NDefines.NNavy.MANPOWER_LOSS_RATIO_ON_STR_LOSS = 0.2There's also this line:
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EXPERIENCE_LOSS_FACTOR = 1.00, -- percentage of experienced solders who die when manpower is removededit: there are in fact several ones with the same name, make sure you are in the correct section (i.e. navy, not army). Fortunately, working with the overrides as shown above requires you to specify the section either way.
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