The scoop on Drill Instructor

[papajohns]

so after a brief chat with NF, heres the scoop about DT.

the DT gives only around 10% more experience to sailors during battle. It does not affect rate of expert gains.

the amount of experts in the DT affects the XP gain, but not by much.

It is not technically active, however, some changes after the most recent patch apparently somehow activated the sailor, so they looking into it how the hell it happened.

theres no other sailors in the deactive list that are activated by the patch.

The drill instructor is still up on the chopping block come retail time as of now, so convert your sailors at your own risk..It might disappear come retail.

bear in mind the DT has never been tested..so the stated effects are based preliminary datas from NF's tests...so dont take all these as written in blood.

so now you know... :rockon:

[gymmay2]

How about the accountant's future, for those who may have upgraded before looking to see if they were activated. :(

[Aselus]

What about the Drill Master? is/will that have the same 10% effect or will it be an i.e.:15% effect...?

do they stack with eachother (aka. do 2 drills cause 20%?)

do experts effect the %eges increased exp gain? aka. do I need a full crew of DT to get 10% and does havign all experts make it 15?


Thanks,
Aselus

[papajohns]

accountants future is pretty grim as of now..

as for the experts affecting DT's ability..that's still being tested to see how exactly its affected.

[Aselus]

umm shouldn't the programmers on the project know how they implemented the percentage and have it in their devnotes?...
My guess is: either through a tag line (i.e.: bool variable check) or through a percentage appention i.e.: when parsing sailors append said percentage(the view of this equation should give away this).

Unless they implemented in some overly-complicated way that THEY don't even understand... Which would be umm...wierd...

So basicaly... I don't see why teamNF is testing this if they implemented it...

*scratches head*
Sorry for the outburst just wondering what sort of developers are working on this if they don't know their own changelists/feature specs... this scares me ^_^

~Aselus

[papajohns]

i dont work there..nor do i want to know... :)


i only report what im being told...