Talk:Exercises (PvP)/@comment-25938809-20150203145029/@comment-25832576-20150204202957

One thing not everyone knows about pvp is, although the game visually displays ships as surviving at 1 hp, they are actually sunk (I suppose they do this since it'd be in bad taste to display friendly fleets being sunk in 'practice' battles).

You might have noticed on rare occassion your ships attack an enemy at 1 hp in pvp; its not a bug, its because the enemy was actually at 1 hp. The rules for your ships sinking are the same as pve: your ships will always survive on 1 hp for real if they entered the battle healthy, else they too can 'sink' if they entered the battle Taiha'd.

But as firstly mentioned, the game won't visualize them as being sunk. But they certainly are considered sunk until after the battle, thus that sentence is correct in saying they won't earn exp if the hit would have 'sunk' them. They still can earn exp if they entered the battle Taiha'd but didn't get hit though.