Experience should be earned during battle- and quit making the AI cheat; it's weak game design...

[nightraven1901]

As title.

If my BB is sinking its way through the masses of crap the unfair battle generator forces it to face, it should be capable of becoming a veteran during the battle. Real warships were considered veterans after one major battle. On a related note, their should be no limit to the amount of experience a ship can earn in one battle. Further, how is the AI fielding veteran ships against me that have never seen combat or indeed have just rolled off the slipway? Quit making the AI cheat! It can also build ships instantly, as demonstrated by them building ships in the first turn or three or a campaign (and not just destroyers but big ships), and it almost universally has favourable engagements even if *I* cheat to compensate for it. I get a convoy attack? One destroyer of mine, they get three cruisers, their convoy is itself armed, and they start between me and the targets. They get a convoy attack? They out-mass me in ships again and for good measure spawn half the distance from my convoy than I bloody do. I get a destroyer ambush? They get escorts and I get four ships. They just ambushed me with eleven, which has never happened for me. It's not that my ships are more expensive or heavier, either. It's just the battle system being straight-up unfavourable to the player. They get about triple-to-quadruple the victory points I do for the same kill, and they claim victory even if I save my BB and kill 10/11 of their ambush ships, despite that ostensibly being a victory for me. What is this nonsense? The task force system had better bloody well fix this...

Also, if I kill off all but their battleships and three other ships, leaving them seven total, that had better be considered a major-to-resounding victory and let me take their core provinces after task forces drops. Getting told that utter thrashing counts as a "minor" victory is frankly bull...t.

Edited March 11, 2022 by nightraven1901
Forgot a sentence in my haste...