Boarding Experience

[eternalheathen]

A discussion came up on the Boarding Training thread, about the long term effectiveness of boarders.

Issue at Hand:
When used for their purpose, boarding ships always attack first, so they rarely get kills/exp. This lack of exp means that they are quickly outpaced by xeno level, and lose their effectiveness.

Possible Solutions:
My thought was that boarding ships could be given exp gains similar to invasion ships, where exp is gained for a successful attack instead of a kill. #en1gma had the idea that boarders should get exp any time a xeno ship under their debuff is destroyed.

Would either of these changes be possible, or perhaps something is already in the works?

[Cory Trese]

Rotate them into kill duty early, and spend more credits on them to add Upgrades to maximize their long term impact.

[tenbsmith]

When the Xeno are sending massive hoards, use Boarding ships first to be most efficient.
When you're mopping up or dealing with just a few Xeno ships, let the Boarding ships get the kill.

[Cory Trese]

Jul 17, 2015 8:53:54 GMT -5 tenbsmith said:

When the Xeno are sending massive hoards, use Boarding ships first to be most efficient.
When your mopping up or dealing with just a few ships, let the Boarding ships get the kill.

Yah, that's pretty much what I do. If you build them heavy, you can also use them to soak fire behind the lines and get kills vs. Missile ships.