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ravagerborg
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I think there is still a bug going on here about the R&D System. Lemme see if I can try to explain what's going on.
Whenever I craft VR components (usually I try to craft a set of five of them to make good use of catalysts), on my current level (Beams lvl 17) I get about a 21% chance to have a critical and 79% of success. Meaning I could get 15 or just 5 components from it. But when I use 2x +50 Skill catalysts, according the the chart I should get about 49% of critical and 51% of success (almost a 50/50).
Now to the bug: Before I start the assignment the R&D skill I have (Base + Doff + Catalysts) shows 170 + 130, and after the assignment is started the R&D skill shows sometimes just 170 +30 and sometimes 170 +130, also sometimes I get a critical with that mission showing just +30 and sometimes I also not get a critical but the skill shows +130. And since I craft two or three times per day (and always use 2x +50 catalysts) and seeing that my results are not even 50/50 in between critical and non-criticals this is what i believe its happening"
The systems not only rolls a dice to decide whether or not you will get a critical (which is OK and working as intended according to the numbers shown before the assignment starts), but also rolls a dice on whether or not your catalysts will intervene in the crafting (explaining why sometimes its missing the +100 in my R&D skill after i start crafting the item). I don't think its just a visual bug since I've noticed both scenarios (where my catalysts actually intervene and give me +100 skill and when they are desconsidered). And that could also explain the reason why I'm not getting 50/50 in critical and non critical results, since when the system decides my catalysts work i get the 50/50, and if they are not working i get about 20/80. On overall from the last 50 crafts I've done I've gotten about 15 criticals and 35 non-criticals.
Please fix this bug since it really makes catalysts worthless for use in the R&D system, since the system always consumes them but their effect is sometimes trashed.
Whenever I craft VR components (usually I try to craft a set of five of them to make good use of catalysts), on my current level (Beams lvl 17) I get about a 21% chance to have a critical and 79% of success. Meaning I could get 15 or just 5 components from it. But when I use 2x +50 Skill catalysts, according the the chart I should get about 49% of critical and 51% of success (almost a 50/50).
Now to the bug: Before I start the assignment the R&D skill I have (Base + Doff + Catalysts) shows 170 + 130, and after the assignment is started the R&D skill shows sometimes just 170 +30 and sometimes 170 +130, also sometimes I get a critical with that mission showing just +30 and sometimes I also not get a critical but the skill shows +130. And since I craft two or three times per day (and always use 2x +50 catalysts) and seeing that my results are not even 50/50 in between critical and non-criticals this is what i believe its happening"
The systems not only rolls a dice to decide whether or not you will get a critical (which is OK and working as intended according to the numbers shown before the assignment starts), but also rolls a dice on whether or not your catalysts will intervene in the crafting (explaining why sometimes its missing the +100 in my R&D skill after i start crafting the item). I don't think its just a visual bug since I've noticed both scenarios (where my catalysts actually intervene and give me +100 skill and when they are desconsidered). And that could also explain the reason why I'm not getting 50/50 in critical and non critical results, since when the system decides my catalysts work i get the 50/50, and if they are not working i get about 20/80. On overall from the last 50 crafts I've done I've gotten about 15 criticals and 35 non-criticals.
Please fix this bug since it really makes catalysts worthless for use in the R&D system, since the system always consumes them but their effect is sometimes trashed.
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Have you ruled out the possibility that it's just a display bug with the UI? (For an example of a current display bug, if you craft a focusing lense or something in bulk, once the project has been started the in-progress project detail will display that you're only using enough Materials to craft a single item when in fact you're using 5x that amount.)
Joined January 2009
I think I ruled that out because that display bug you are talking about is always present, while the fact that sometimes that extra +100 skill from catalysts I'm using sometimes shows and sometimes it doesn't. I haven't tested this with other kinds of catalysts than the +50 ones. But from the results I'm getting (between criticals and non criticals) I believe its far from the 50/50 chance I'm supposed to get if the catalysts were working as intended and effectively increasing my critical chance to craft 15 components to 49% as the tooltip shows before I press the begin assignment button.