Talk:Aircraft Proficiency/@comment-24.2.38.164-20150811205843

I've been doing a little experimentation with plane levelling and its effects, so I'll post what I have so far here.

With regards to plane levelling, I ran 1-1 sorties and 2-node 2-3 sorties. From what I saw, it didn't look like map exp has any effect on plane levelling speed. It's also pretty clear that neither flagship placement nor ship mvp has any effect on plane levelling.

On either map, combat (R/G/B) planes took an average of 3 sorties per rank, for a total of about 21 sorties to max rank. Yellow planes take 4 sorties.

I'd initially assumed plane exp was gained per node, but my later experiments running 1-1-A for damage tests throws some doubt on that, since my planes were all levelling up after exactly 4 sorties (single-node sorties, as opposed to the 2-node sorties I was doing before). This was to go from 0 to 1 blue bar, after which I reset the planes, so I don't know if that continues for the higher ranks, but it seems possible that plane exp is per sortie, not per engagement, or maybe a combination of the two. More testing is needed.

As others have noted, PvP still gives plane exp, but you won't lose any, even if your whole squadron is shot down (I tested this). How much exp PvP gives I'm not quite sure yet.

With regards to the effects of plane ranking, I sent a fleet with a max-rank reppuu to 2-1. The fleet had a FP of 17, but was able to take AS on nodes where the requirement was 36. This suggests that max-ranking a reppuu can more than double it's FP, but I haven't gotten around to pinning down the exact bonus.

I also sortied to 1-1-A to test bomber damage with max-rank suisei m12A. There's a bit of randomness in the bomber damage that tends to muddy the data a bit, but it looks like a max-rank suisei m12A gets about a 33% increase in opening bomb damage.

I have not yet tested torpedo bombers, nor do I have any idea how I'd go about testing the other planes (recon/obs planes and yellow planes).

Hopefully this information proves useful for anyone else out there trying to figure out exactly how this new system works.

~ A4