Having combat fleet formations without animations

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In war situations, there is a state of hypervigilance as no commander wants to get caught unawares and risk his or her crew. The problem is that means a lot of "touch and goes" and the flight squadron is constantly in the air to scout and to cope with the enemy. And what happens is the crew get exhausted and start making mistakes.

What could happen in BotE is this is a function of experience and so very experienced crews are hard to ambush. This isn't their first rodeo. They have been down this road a hundred times and learned to deal with it.

Other races may get better training experience as they are warrior races like the Khaoran or they are hyperdisciplined like the Rotharians, whereas the rest gain less experience so these are advantages of playing those two.

Rotharian "What the heck is this free time you keep talking about? We are always on duty."
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http://birth-of-the-empires.de/wiki/ind ... fsaufgaben
Every ship has tasks or fits a niche role. That has an effect of battle resolution based on role.

http://birth-of-the-empires.de/wiki/ind ... Berechnung
Then the enormous complexity of space combat.

Then damage based on beam weaponry
http://birth-of-the-empires.de/wiki/ind ... title=Beam

Then damage based on torpedo tube type and payload type
http://birth-of-the-empires.de/wiki/ind ... e=Torpedos

This is so complex that it is intricate and elegant.

Anyone who thinks that BotE has simple combat has ever read a word about space combat in the German wiki. It's the most complex space combat I have ever seen.

The one thing missing is weariness. Soldiers are not all veterans and are scared, homesick, really green, and undisciplined because they have no idea how vulnerable they are. That affects morale. I think experience can enfold which species are the most disciplined since childhood and these crew members are likely recruited since middle school or high school. So certain species train faster.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wg2HiLFg4Ac
Look at how abrupt the landing is. Especially watch #7 as a Harrier jet pilot is aware his landing gear has malfunctioned, so the flight crew rushes to get it in a perfect spot so it can catch the nose or else it will trash the plane and potentially harm the pilot. The plane go up in flames.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d3DZ8YVrBH8
The fighter pilots and crew train with elephant walks in wartime situations where you would sending a steady stream, one right after the other to engage in battle.

The same thing would happen in BotE by themselves and in fleets during engagements.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-oTZnKcn0wI
If your crew is at a high operational tempo and exhausted plus bad weather, then that pilot is likely in trouble. Watch the second one where a helicopter pilot has an outrageous rolling sea so the flight deck is pitching up and down and twisting, yet he has to land, as someone else is waiting to land, so he has to do it quickly.

Unless very near to a star, the pilots are manuevering in 100% blackness and worse, no sense of up or down. There is a scene in Interstellar and the pilot is trying to land as abruptly as possible to save time and his velocity must have been off the charts.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZACzAgrAK8E

Interstellar is worth watching just to for the remarkable piloting. That scene where he has to dock with a crippled ship is amazing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c4tPQYNpW9k
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gP-NshgYNsU
Elite (1984)
Just to start playing Elite, you were poor and did not have a way to dock with the craft, so you had to learn to navigate and match the rotation, and couldn't be in an eccentric rotation, but perfectly aligned, just to dock. It was not easy. Sometimes you did it flying very fast too.
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Elite (2015)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3wJipKJaK9k

BotE could be like that too and last over 35 years too.

People are still playing Civ2.
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