I don't recall what might be the highest ever, its been 6 years of playing this game, but in my most recent game, just completed two days ago i had a lvl 19 ship, and every other ship of the same class was over lvl 10.

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My highest ever?

A small ship that has a level of 102.

That ship was around the time when I'm still using the minor race tech tree, my race uses an obnoxious shade of orange, and I'm still in a community college somewhere.

Too bad I lost that game mainly because the race in brown has both Nightmare Torpedoes AND the mega event where their stats grow and grow and grow without end. 

My level 11 monster in my current game quickly made it to level 102.

Feed it some Whiskey i'll bet!!! But 768 hitpoints!!!



I'm not even sure you need defenses!!! LOL

I'm glad you asked.    

My veteran ships were taking a pounding from the Drengin, so I fleeted them with empty huge hulls hoping to sacrifice the empty hulls and keep the veterans.  The opposite happened and the empty hulls got incredible experience during the scuffle while the veterans died.  Since I allowed myself two warships in the game, I upgraded two of the empty hulls to warships to replace their fallen comrades and decommissioned the other survivors.

Evidently, the experience was given based on their attack and defense values (0) + the hull hit points against the defending fleets (700+ Att, 700+ def + hull values)

I assume that the max experience level is 102, seeing that the number has come up on a few occasions and my empty hulls didn't breech that limit.

It would be a quick way of getting uber survivors for fights against superior enemies.  

And now, the playing field has been leveled.    

HP is only worth about 1/4th as much as attack or defense, so, no, not really.

Also, it's all about how long you've had your ships, and my understanding is he only got the ship in question in the very late game.

here's my highest level. that ship whiped out almost all of the korath clan on its own. then joined a fleet and cleared the path for my spore ships. i think it was the second military ship i built in that game and it was upgraded only once.

Nice looking ship.

And oh boy, I need to get a ship that also have over 200 experience levels. With all of these ultra-ships coming in, I'm afraid my lvl 102 fighter's gonna be left in the dust.

And how did you keep the fleet alive for so long?

  I'm playing the Dread Lords campaign again.  I researched quickly to Starbase Fortification III and at the screenshot have a level 17 military starbase as yet with no ship assist modules and not the maximum shields.  Most of my BCs went on rush buying constructors (I chose neutral alignment for this rush-buy discount) and repairing the starbase: