Level Up Crew without trainers
Commander Sinclair
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in The Bridge
I just discovered an interesting feature that will certainly help the newbies.
When you have some strong crew, and some new crew, do the actual away missions or space battles (DO NOT just Warp them) with the weak crew that you want to level up, balanced with the stronger crew to make sure it is successful.
The Captain XP points automatically levels up the weak crew at the end of the mission!
I discovered this by accident, since I had a new crew as a placeholder in my bridge crew, and hit the "engage" button, instead of canceling it, when I wanted to switch my bridge crew. At the end of the mission, the "placeholder" crew went from level 1 to level 7.
Who else knew about this? We really need to make a proper manual/guide for this game!
When you have some strong crew, and some new crew, do the actual away missions or space battles (DO NOT just Warp them) with the weak crew that you want to level up, balanced with the stronger crew to make sure it is successful.
The Captain XP points automatically levels up the weak crew at the end of the mission!
I discovered this by accident, since I had a new crew as a placeholder in my bridge crew, and hit the "engage" button, instead of canceling it, when I wanted to switch my bridge crew. At the end of the mission, the "placeholder" crew went from level 1 to level 7.
Who else knew about this? We really need to make a proper manual/guide for this game!
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Or perhaps you're suggesing you assumed if ANY of the crew in the mission were level 100 that none of them would get exp? The Mission EXP icon is still displayed on the screen when you complete it though, so it would be odd if it were rewarded but not distributed to crew.
If memory serves, it’s not terribly efficient by way of chronitons or just real time spent running missions. I guess it depends on whether crew XP awarded takes the same hit as captain XP when completing a mission for the first time versus a re-run. Either way, I can’t imagine this is a worthwhile method for crew leveling for anyone past their first few days of playing...granted, however, I say this is as someone who has 32,768 each of all five trainer types.
+1 across the trainers board, literally. 🖖🏻
Haha, 100% what I did. I was worried I would lose too much if I warped levels.
(well this and that they'd also get XP if we ever have an expedition again!)
Ha! I suspect that would happen whether intended or not.
As for the "knowing or realizing", I never caught on to that fact. I always used trainers in the early days, even, sadly, purchasing trainers with honor when that became an available option.
I, too, have all trainers maxed for many months now, which is perhaps one reason why I caught this now, and didn't way back then. I can't even remember the last time I actually ran a mission or space battle with crew that weren't already maxed out. Over a year, at least!
Well, Captain XP is different than individual crew XP, which is what I am talking about. Running a mission gains you crew XP AND Captain XP, where warping only gets you Captain XP of course.