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Advanced Rapid Support Trait - MATH Challenged?

bossheisenbergbossheisenberg Member Posts: 603 Arc User
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I know I'm way late to grinding out my Temporal toon, but just unlocked my adv. rapid support trait and was wondering if that trait is not working as intended?

It says reduces cooldown by 67% for Tac/Sci/Eng Fleet. That captain power has a 5-minute cooldown. Five minutes is 300 seconds. 67% of 300 is 201. That leaves 99 seconds. Which is 1 minute 39 seconds. But when I activate it with the trait, it reduces the cooldown to 3 minutes. How is 2 minutes 67% of 5 minutes? 2 minutes is actually closer to what the standard rapid support does, which is only 33%. How do you work those numbers?

I know this trait came out a long time ago and hasn't been fixed, or I just don't get Cryptic's crazy temporal math.

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    memnoch#6978 memnoch
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    legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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    edited July 2017
    azrael605 wrote: »
    The cooldown is 10 minutes unless you have the Command spec trait active which reduces it to 5 minutes.

    that's fleet support, not the career fleet powers, which is what ARS affects

    and to the OP, this is cryptic math at work - don't question it​​
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    tigerariestigeraries Member Posts: 3,492 Arc User
    alternative math?

    for instance, 5 min cool down so you can use an ability once every 5 mins... 100% "cool down" would mean you can use it 2 times in 5 mins... or 50% reduction, once every 2.5 mins.

    Your magic number is 67%

    1min39secs = 1.65 mins
    1.65/5 = 33% or a reduction of 67%
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    askatusaskatus Member Posts: 157 Arc User
    It is indeed crazy Cryptic maths. The calculation is base value × 1/(1+ reduction). In this case you would get 300/1.67=180 seconds or three minutes. A 100% reduction would half your cool down not reduce it to zero.
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