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castor troy -> RE: Out of Pilots Again (5/17/2011 8:19:04 AM)
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ORIGINAL: n01487477
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ORIGINAL: erstad
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This is how my PBEM looks like, 12/44. I fear we´re very close to real trouble. I´ve got nearly 35000 pilots alone, I wonder that we haven´t gone through the 50000 already, looks like this PBEM is about to be shut down soon.
Well, note that you've got >8000 inactive pilots, and >2000 pilots scheduled to come in later. The 8000 would be general reserve, TRACOM, and scenario pilots without an airgroup (this last category should be small). And I don't believe that these 10,000 pilots includes pilots in group reserve. So you're not in danger of running out of pilots any time soon. Although 15K-ish seems a little low for the Japanese.
This is correct - on another note Castor have you guys noticed the new beta which allows the culling of pilots. This game has no need to shut down unless you don't want to manage what you have. 8626 pilots in general reserve is somewhat excessive imho - start using these when drawing pilots.
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We´re still using the latest official patch, I´m a bit reluctant on upgrading to a beta patch in a PBEM that has been going for so long already. I´ve been shifting around reserve pilots for the last halve year, guess only every third or fourth pilot I draw has been from the replacement pool. 8000 seems a lot and I´ve long thought I would have skilled pilots of each and every type for the next 25 years but if you think about the numbers you need when 50 CVE come in then you realize you will need 1000+ skilled fighter pilots for these CVE alone (or go with the underskilled rookies that are nothing but victims). Then the USAAF bomber groups suddenly show up in big numbers, you realize you need hundreds of skilled bomber pilots. Now that we´re closing in on 45, I´ve just realized that my USN CV are getting their VBF squadrons, guess what, I now need 500 pilots for them, best would be to have them trained on air and lownav/lowgrd. I realized that too late so these pilots aren´t available anyway, don´t know how to handle that issue at the moment, I don´t even have enough trained USN fighter pilots to send 500+ into these squadrons. So I could send back all those VB bomber pilots and have them being trained for the VBF, takes me 6 months though (if you want them to have air and one of the bombing skills, not even talking about the second bombing skill), so this would mean all those Corsair squadrons are of no use until mid 45 if I start to train now, if I start to train now, I would have to find squadrons for 500 replacement pilots and start to train, but this again would add 500 pilots.
A long time during the game I´ve thought "I will never run out of these or those pilot types" and had to experience that I actually did run out of trained pilots of every major type. Last time it happened was the time when the USMC squadrons went from 18 to 24 aircraft, so I had to add a lot of pilots and found out that I was then short of USMC fighter pilots and I was doing training since day one of the PBEM and IMO it was by far not as bloody as the usual games we see. [X(]
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