Talk:Spring 2016 Event/@comment-27811420-20160515140609/@comment-861160-20160515153413

I'm 95% sure this is due to an idiosyncrasy with how plane losses work with land bases.

If you concentrate your attacks on one node, the enemy fleet will down your bombers with their AA fire. So for example for a 12 slot if you lose 4 planes on the first pass, and 8 on the second pass, the end result will be you only lose 8 planes when you check your base after the sortie. For determining how many planes your slots end up with, the system only counts the planes the planes lost in the second pass. Moreover, the system treats the second pass as if the losses from the first pass never happened. Therefore, I think that two possibilities are present:

1. If your slot gets wiped out by the first and second pass combined, all rank is lost but you only lose planes shot down in the second pass.

2. If your slot gets wiped out by the first pass alone, all rank is lost but you only lose planes that would have been lost if you had any for the second pass.

Otherwise I can't rationalize how all ranks are lost without the slots being wiped out.

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