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feordilagorge
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Just thought I'd point out this longtime error in the stats of some consoles.
"Slipstream drive recharges 100% faster" means instant recharge. This should be 50%.
Example: 2 minute recharge time.
50% of this is one minute.
100% is 2 minutes.
https://i.imgur.com/iUNd7CU.png
"Slipstream drive recharges 100% faster" means instant recharge. This should be 50%.
Example: 2 minute recharge time.
50% of this is one minute.
100% is 2 minutes.
https://i.imgur.com/iUNd7CU.png
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Likely "100% faster" will result in the CD being halved (1/(1+1)) = 0.5
A 100% increase means it recharges twice as fast, and therefore needs half as much time: 60 seconds.
A further 100% increase will mean thrice as fast and therefore one third of the time: 40 seconds, and so on.
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I do not believe you can get below a 30 second recharge.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
No, it's the recharge rate that it is referring to. Wording is slightly wrong, but it makes sense.
Well, while I'm sure they're seriously concerned with your disagreement with their phrasing, it is what it is. The way they do it is pretty common in MMOs a a method of delivering diminishing returns from boosting statistics, and allowing them to churn out new sources of bonuses without worrying that the universe will implode if they don't carefully monitor the sum of those bonuses.
If you want a legitimate beef, complain about the fact that cyclical quantum slipstream drives claim to only have a 30 second cooldown, but actually have a 2 minute cooldown unless you run the drive for the full 90 seconds.
Let's forget about the equations that dictate recharge times and look at this differently.
The standard QSD recharge is 2 minutes, or 120 seconds.
Let's give the QSD a theoretical 'fuel' of 120 units which get used up during QSD usage.
When QSD finishes, the 'fuel' refills at 1 unit per second, giving a 2 minute recharge time.
The tooltip you mention reads:
This means it now recharges at 2 'fuel' units per second and this now gives a 60 second recharge time.
I hope this helps you understand the way the tooltip on the console is worded.
The wording is mathematically and logically correct. Unfortunately, our human brains don't always grasp these things as well as we'd like to think.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'