(Answered) Skill improvement and survival

[drjones]

The skill improvement rules (pg. 40-41) specify tracking experience for "each warrior who survives a scenario." I'd interpret this as meaning the warrior himself/herself simply survived (wasn't killed), but the question arose in a game today of whether to include warriors who lost their 'mechs in the scenario as receiving experience and being eligible to receive their side's bonus experience point. As a related side question, does being taken prisoner (after a failed search and rescue check per CO pg. 223) affect the answer?

[Xotl]

1: Yes.
2: No.

[drjones]

Thanks, that makes sense to me! One of the other players in my current game is already speculating on which MechWarrior might end up getting the extra experience point -- and I think his leading candidate might be about to join the Dispossessed