Originally Posted by danita
Originally Posted by MaskdBandit
I never recommend two BOs myself. Even without premium ships, if your BO gets too far ahead of your supports, simply only use whatever lvl of ship your supports are appropriate for. It will be annoying when you know you have a BB5 BO and your supports are only 90ish (or whatever), but it's still faster than doing two whole seperate BO grinds.
Fail reasoning fails pretty hard.
BO earns 20% more xp than support.
If supports are to gain more xp than the BO, you'd have to be using ships that are at least 32 lvl's lower than the BO, while the supports still gain full xp. That only happens if you don't rotate sailors, but leave some behind. So for most ppl supports will only fall farther behind the BO, even if you use the correct ship for them. Only using an engineer as PBB BO will allow supports to catch up to a BO, but not everyone likes using a BO with far too long guidelines.
If you plan on using a PBB, 2 BO's do not have to be brought up all that high, the 2nd BO probably doesn't need to be used all that much beyond PBB lvl to keep the supports in touch with your main BO ( standard 14 sailor crew). That's not all that much extra time for the 2nd BO.
Did... Did you read the words I used?... Fail fail is fail lol fail... -_-
Oh internet hipsters being ironic.
Saying it's "not all that much longer" is failed rhetoric, because what I suggested doesn't involve
any extra time wasted on your second BO. Nothing ever falls behind, only the BO gets ahead because, well, it's the BO (plus gunners and hopefully scout, obviously). As many sailors are getting as much experience as is possible for their level. Period.
Anything else is just preference.
It's just math. By the time you get to ships where you can use at least half of your crew (therefore at the point where you can factor in which way you want to do things from that point) if you go two BOs you're always one sailor short for both grinds (your BO) by default,
as well as the less slots you're using because you're on low level ships
twice.
At lowest levels (basically up until PCA) the loss of exp over your entire crew is less than you gain by having the extra support slot(s) from having one crew. It's then at PCA+ (10 supports if using same gunners, which being ahead can also be swapped depending on if AAing vs main guns or whatever you're doing) where you're at a perfect time to catch up to BO when the supports are all already close to each other. The
entire time you're lvling more guys at the same time.
Therefore, with PCA you're leveling 10 crewmen (all of your supports+1) to
catch up to the BO which is by default ahead either way. Instead of grinding 6~ sailors
including a useless BO (assuming you don't have an SS/CV crew waiting for it).
And I'm assuming you meant far too
short of guidelines with an Eng BO. Scouts can have enough potential to serve as fine Premium Ship BOs if you're concerned about it.
I'm just detailing what's faster. Your preference is your preference. If fastest was also the simplest then everyone would only grind one way.