August 20, 201411 yr CORE - UI - Upgrade - CareerTrackDefinitionsHi Folks.A minimalist hiatus from tweaking default Flight mission code. :p0129:It'd long irked me,Flight's lack of career-progression acknowledgment beyond 'Level' 20, (500,000 'XP').Flight's developers would have eventually updated the CareerTrackDefinitions. README - Snippets from -Flight's 'Pilot Profile - Career' menu displays a Pilot's career details.e.g. Hours flown, Cargo carried, Crashes, 'XP', etc.Pilots earn 'XP' by flying Missions, Challenges, Jobs, Aerocaches, etc.A Pilot's career 'Level' is derived from their earned 'XP'.As released -Flight's 'Pilot Profile - Career' displays a maximum of 'Level' 20.The in-level progress meter is maxed-out at 500,000 'XP',and offers no career-progression beyond 'Level' 20.Aerocaches alone, earn over 1 million 'XP',so 500,000 'XP' can be attained fairly easily.As proven by many pilots in the weeks immediately following Flight's release,with several since having earned over 15 million XP,and at least one, 30 million XP. Despite which, their 'Profile' menu claims they are all still at 'Level' 20,with no further career progression, or target 'Level' to aim for next.CareerTrackDefinitions Add-On -A simple, single file, upgrade for 'XP Grinders', and any aspirants. As upgraded -Flight's 'Pilot Profile - Career' now displays a maximum of 'Level' 50.'Level' 50 equates to having earned 50,000,000 'XP'.The in-level progress meter displays accordingly for those 30 additional levels.Hopefully sufficient for most of your flying careers. How it works -Uses Flight's inbuilt upgrade-supporting mechanism.Default Flight contains a file which translates earned 'XP' to 19 'Level's,Overriden by this replacement file, which contains those original 19 translations, plus a further 30 appended translations.These appended incremental 'XP' to 'Level' translations,attempt to similarly mimic Microsoft's original non-linear career progression. Installation -Install using 'Flight Tool Kit' - 'Addon Manager', (as per all Flight's addons).N.B.Installing this upgrade -- Does not affect your profile.- Does not give you extra 'XP'.- Does not alter as-released levels, (500,000 'XP' still equates to 'Level' 20).- Only appends further 'XP' to 'Level' translations, (appends 'Level's 21 through 50).- Only displays on Flight's 'Pilot Profile - Career' menu.- Does not display on Microsoft Flight's website, (replacement CareerTrackDefinitions would need to exist on Flight's webserver) https://www.microsoftflight.com/en-us/myflight/ Credits & Thanks To -Microsoft Game Studios - For Flight, its enhanced simulation, gameplay, and recognition of the learning experience.Steve Heijster (Stonelance) - For his 'Flight Tool Kit', and persistance in supporting the community. Download - AVSIM Library Info Page - CareerTrackDefinitions ** Upgrade ** My upgrade is intended as an interim fix,hopefully prompting someone to release Flight's official intended career progression.At which point I'll withdraw my interim fix. Meantime -Back to tweaking default Flight mission code.HTHATBPaul ODG Preview
August 20, 201411 yr Thank you so very much Paul. This will be very interesting. A fine example of what can be done. Steve
August 20, 201411 yr Now that I'm looking at it... those definitions are quite high! I've worked this out before and generated my own CareerTrackDefinitions file from the data. This is what I had worked out. The difference between each level had to be a general increase, which is what Microsoft intended. My estimates tell me that you are on level 41 Paul! Kavinda J.D ^_^
August 21, 201411 yr Great job, Paul, installing ASAP! Best regards. Luis Hot, humid Caribbean paradise!
August 21, 201411 yr Nice Paul. Thanks. Every bit of improvement we see keeps us glued to the best flight sim ever. -Tom
August 21, 201411 yr Thanks Paul. Now all the points I've piled up have a bit more meaning. I'm at level 30, and I still have over 300,000 points to go for level 31. It appears you've set the jumps at this level to 1,000,000. That means, with an average of about 3,000 points per mission, I'll only have to complete about 110 more missions...or Flight disappears, whichever comes first. Happy flying, all... Dean So if it's a million points per level, at an average of ~3000 points per mission I only need to complete ~6,666 more missions (give or take) to get to level 50. Piece of cake if I work at it 12 hours a day for the next few years. NOT!
August 21, 201411 yr Author Hi Folks Cheers folks.For comments on XP required for next levels,please see the info after this table.The additional levels are currently set as follows.Everything up to, and including, Level 20 is Microsoft's.Difference == Additional XP you need to earn from previous level. Level XP Difference 1 0 0 2 1,000 1,000 3 4,750 3,750 4 9,125 4,375 5 14,750 5,625 6 21,625 6,875 7 30,375 8,750 8 40,375 10,000 9 54,125 13,750 10 70,375 16,250 11 89,125 18,750 12 110,375 21,250 13 135,375 25,000 14 164,125 28,750 15 199,125 35,000 16 241,625 42,500 17 294,125 52,500 18 354,125 60,000 19 419,125 65,000 20 500,000 80,875 21 600,000 100,000 22 725,000 125,000 23 875,000 150,000 24 1,050,000 175,000 25 1,250,000 200,000 26 1,500,000 250,000 27 1,800,000 300,000 28 2,200,000 400,000 29 2,700,000 500,000 30 3,300,000 600,000 31 4,000,000 700,000 32 4,800,000 800,000 33 5,700,000 900,000 34 6,700,000 1,000,000 35 7,900,000 1,200,000 36 9,300,000 1,400,000 37 10,900,000 1,600,000 38 12,700,000 1,800,000 39 14,700,000 2,000,000 40 16,900,000 2,200,000 41 19,300,000 2,400,000 42 21,900,000 2,600,000 43 24,700,000 2,800,000 44 27,700,000 3,000,000 45 30,900,000 3,200,000 46 34,300,000 3,400,000 47 38,000,000 3,700,000 48 41,800,000 3,800,000 49 45,800,000 4,000,000 50 50,000,000 4,200,000 Following Kavinda's comment, our PMs,and subsequent discoveries made today,I'm looking at improving the granularity.i.e.- Less XP between each additional level.- More additional levels, (100).- Setting Level 100 at 50,000,000 XP.If someone has Flight's official career-progression,or even the integer sequence, (see below),it'd be much prefered & appreciated.Being mathematically challenged, (pickled brain),any assistance from a numerical wizard would be much appreciated.Otherwise an update will have to waituntil I've worked out suitable valuesfor extending the following integer sequence.6, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 22, 26, 30, 34, 40, 46, 56, 68, 84, 96, 104Either it's an amazing coincidence,or they're the exact multipliers MS usedto generate the XP difference values for Levels 3 through 19.Levels 2 and 20 being bodged to produce rounded results.N.B.I do have a valid sequence for levels 21 through 69,but its probably waaaay to aggressive for use. i.e. Level 50 == 66.3 million XPHTHATBPaul ODG Preview
August 21, 201411 yr Author Hi Folks Regarding those increasingly largish increments of earned XP required to attain the next whatever level. There is another aspect that I'd forgotten to mention. You'll need to stop thinking about earning XP by finding Aerocaches, and flying Hamburger missions, as per Flight's currently released DLC. With Flight's as originally planned development, involving releasing Light / Light-Medium / Medium / etc. aircraft. Probably equating IRL to - - Utility - Pax <= 9 - Commuter- Pax <= 19 - Transport- Pax => 19 Plus these larger aircraft's associated missions, then your scope for earning more XP per flight, jumps accordingly. Unless of course, you stick with Aerocaches and Hamburger runs. HTHATBPaul ODG Preview
August 21, 201411 yr Did you look at this? I have worked it out! All the differences.. I urge you to take a look. The differences I have found are for between levels and for finding out the XP of the next one by allowing a steady increase between each level. EDIT: Just to clarify, I have worked out the differences between each of the levels and the difference of that difference (D2), to find the XP increase between each level. By doing this you see the pattern which is produced. Following this pattern, a value which is put into D2, can be used to find out what the XP of the next level is. It may be a bit too generous but my workings are amended accordingly to the original career track definitions up to level 20. Have fun! Kavinda J.D ^_^
August 22, 201411 yr From Kavinda's table, it would appear that nobody will ever reach level 50 before Flight has gone the way of the dinosaur. Probably not even level 40, either... ...unless a mysterious benefactor with deep pockets buys the rights to Flight, and keeps all the servers online, which is about as likely as pigs growing wings and flying like a pegasus...only it'd be a pigasus.
August 22, 201411 yr :cough: :cough: My Level 50 : 13,350,250 XPPaul's Level 50 : 50,000,000 XP Correct Steve! You are at level 32 with my Calculations! B)Also, getting to those higher levels must be a challenge! When going up levels, the difference to the next must be higher. What would the point of a "game" be without a challenge?It shouldn't be a walk in the park... which is about as likely as pigs growing wings and flying like a pegasus...only it'd be a pigasus. That would also make Bacon twice as hard to get onto our plates! - - - Edit - - - I forgot to ask... Paul, what is this: Also, Paul, what is this: 6, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 22, 26, 30, 34, 40, 46, 56, 68, 84, 96, 104 ??? You are right... 6.3 Million XP woulld be a BIT extreme! Kavinda J.D ^_^
August 22, 201411 yr Author Hi FolksSorry gents,I'm being serious, (not rude),before you post replies,some of you need to actually read the posts. Please note -Original post had lots more smileys,but forum only permits 5. Kavinda -That's an entirely different extrapolation,from the one you'd originally shared with me. I'm not going to re-analyse that, (see comments at end of post).Figures cited below, are from the original version you'd PM'd. Regarding my last postI should have added some examples to give context.I'm quoting some of my previous relevant contentbefore emphasising those aspects you've chosen to ignore. From Kavinda's table,it would appear that nobody will ever reach level 50before Flight has gone the way of the dinosaur.Probably not even level 40, either... Kavinda's scaleLevel 40 == 5,345,250Level 50 == 11,465,250I can see at least -- 14 nobodies @ Kavinda's Level 40- 7 of those nobodies, are way beyond Kavinda's Level 50. Aerocaches alone, earn over 1 million 'XP',so 500,000 'XP' can be attained fairly easily.As proven by many pilots in the weeks immediately following Flight's release,with several since having earned over 15 million XP,and at least one, 30 million XP. They'd all exceeded Kavinda's Level 50 long ago.On my scale,those persons are already on Level 40Some player's career stats that I can see -# == Unique persons in that score range> == Greater than Millions XP earned< == Less than Millions XP earnedML == My Levels scaleKL == Kavinda's Levels scale # > < ML KL 20 1 2 24 24 11 2 5 27 29 7 5 10 33 39 4 10 15 36 48 1 15 20 39 Exceeded 1 20 30 41 Exceeded 1 30 40 45 Exceeded You'll need to stop thinking about earning XPby finding Aerocaches, and flying Hamburger missions,as per Flight's currently released DLC.With Flight's as originally planned development,involving releasing Light / Light-Medium / Medium / etc. aircraft.Probably equating IRL to -- Utility - Pax <= 9- Commuter- Pax <= 19- Transport- Pax => 19Plus these larger aircraft's associated missions,then your scope for earning more XP per flight, jumps accordingly. Current known high rankers - 1,324 hours flown 30,031,092 XP earned 1,514,054 Total Cargo (lbs) carried 3,116 Total Passengers carried Yet they achieved all thatusing just the missions released to datewhich only support -- VERY-LIGHT or LIGHT aircraft- 4 Pax Max- 1,000 pounds payload- 700 nm rangeSo what's going to happenwhen other missions are released ?e.g.C-46 Commando related -- MEDIUM aircraft- 65 Pax Max- 18,000 pounds payload- 1,510 nm rangeWhere using Kavinda's Levels,flying a clandestine night mission,is going going to increment a user's career statsby 1 possibly 2 levels, (for a single flight). :huh:Taking that to an extreme version -What happens if/when/eventuallysomeone ported over an -- 835 Pax A380-800- 559,577 lbs carrying An-225- 8,500 nm range aircraft Kavinda -That's a quite different extrapolation,from the one you'd originally shared with me. And no, you haven't 'already solved it'. As I'm numerically challenged,could you please explain the mathematical basisfor your career-progression sequence.I can't see anything there, other than you'd just plugged in some numbersto generate what supposedly looks likean approximate replication of MS's progression. Apart from Microsoft's levels 2 and 20,bodged to produce nicely round XP,all of MS's level incrementsappear to be based on integer multipliers.Your increments are not based on integer multipliers.You've also used that bodged Level 20 valueas the basis for extrapolating all your subsequent XP scoring. Maybe generate a D3 column,then take another look at your increments. You might also consider ignoring MS's first 10 levels,as they're set incredibly low,just to bait players into attempting the mission/jobs/challenges/etc. Otherwise an update will have to waituntil I've worked out suitable valuesfor extending the following integer sequence.6, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 22, 26, 30, 34, 40, 46, 56, 68, 84, 96, 104Either it's an amazing coincidence,or they're the exact multipliers MS usedto generate the XP difference values for Levels 3 through 19.Levels 2 and 20 being bodged to produce rounded results. If someone has Flight's official career-progression,or even the integer sequence, (see above),it'd be much prefered & appreciated.HTHATBPaul ODG Preview
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