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Kull -> RE: TRACOM: Is it worth it? (2/16/2020 7:18:55 PM)
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ORIGINAL: rustysi
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When they "graduate early", they are out of the training cycle (and no longer burning HI).
The way it works is that a random number of pilots are accelerated from a random month. They are not yet necessarily out of the training cycle. Granted they will eventually 'graduate' early.
Good, so we agree.
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And because of TRACOM, the average experience level of the class will be higher.
Again, not necessarily. The limits of the nation average will still come into play, +/- whatever the parameter may be.
Of course - those who know how this works always specify uncertainty. The benefits are always described as things that "might" or "can" happen. But over the course of 12 months, applied to 12 different classes 12 different times, "might happen" becomes "almost certainly happened some number of times". But even so, yes, the number can never rise HIGHER than the national average. But the effect over 12 months, besides early graduations, is this:
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ORIGINAL: Alfred
Graduating pilots come out with experience which is within a range +/- of the national average. Having pilots in Tracom will aid reducing the negative spread but will not boost them to above the national average.
Alfred
In other words, a smaller spread between the experience levels at the bottom and those at the top. And since the top number is fixed (i.e. the national average), a reduced "negative spread" can only mean higher experience levels for those pilots at the bottom of the range. If, absent TRACOM, a particular graduating class has pilots at the bottom with EXP of 22 but with TRACOM it's 23, it will take a non-zero number of supply-expending days of on-map training to make up the difference.
Admittedly if you have only 10 pilots in TRACOM, the improvements (if any) are little more than statistical noise, but a player who makes a serious effort to populate TRACOM (with say 100 or more pilots) is going to see some very noticeable improvements.
There is an opportunity cost to doing this, of course. Many players would much rather use those top pilots to kill the enemy, and certainly that's a valid point. The other factor to consider is that - per the Pilot Management Addendum:
"if pilot is in a group with some training percent (number of veteran pilots (experience of 80+) increases chance of successful training"
That refers to on-map training, but it begs the question. How many 80+ pilots have to be in any given on-map training group before you see a benefit? Unfortunately, that's completely unknown (other than it has no benefit at all once the trainees reach 50 in EXP+missions+kills). By contrast, at least with TRACOM we know that you need 10 pilots per nationality to have some chance of accelerated training.
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