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Projectile Weapon Officer: broken?
calintane753
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I currently use 3 "Projectile Weapon Officer" of "purple" quality with a "Particle Emission Plasma Torpedo Launcher" (8 seconds of recharge).
The info of the officers says: "20% chance: Improve recharge time by 5 sec".
It seems to me that the current chance - that should be 20% for each officer if I am right, so 60% total - is far from 60%: it is maybe 20%, but definitely not 60%.
Is there a bug or something changed some patch ago?
Thanks!
The info of the officers says: "20% chance: Improve recharge time by 5 sec".
It seems to me that the current chance - that should be 20% for each officer if I am right, so 60% total - is far from 60%: it is maybe 20%, but definitely not 60%.
Is there a bug or something changed some patch ago?
Thanks!
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Think of it like rolling a 10 sided dice. With one Projectile Officer, you must roll a 1 or 2, with three projectile officers, you still have to roll a 1 or 2, you just get to roll the die three times.
20/100 (1st officer) or 20/100 (2nd officer) or 20/100 (3rd officer)
... is...
20/100 + 20/100 + 20/100
(The "or" is "+", while the "and" is "*"; there aren't "and" here, anyway)
... that is...
60/100
0.8 x 0.8 x 0.8 = .512 chance of failure per time you fire a torpedo, or a 48.8% chance that you will reduce the cooldown every time you fire.
After all there was something broken.
^^ Is the right answer.