Mabey reduce pg usage by 1 per level or reduced pg usage by 10% a level?

The problem they are facing here is the way the fitting uses whole numbers, but the %reduction skills end up being doubles most of the time, coupled with the small (ish) numbers.

Take the mass driver PG reduction. If it needs 7 pg in fitting, and the reduction is say, 10%, you get a 0.7 reduction. Thanks to rounding thats either 1, or 0. And there in lies the problem, the rounding is way stronger than the actual skill. More than that, people don't know which way it will round, so you're left with this feeling of uncertainty.

If i bump this skill from level 4 to 5 will that extra 3% round it up to the next integer? or do nothing? Who knows!

The reason we haven't heard anything about this is because ccp has no good solutions here. They can either increase the numbers by say, a factor of ten to minimise the effect of rounding (rounding say a 6.5 down to 6 is far better than rounding .65 down to 0), or they need to switch the bonuses over to whole numbers and not percents.

The first option requires changing almost every fitting number in the game, very time consuming and potentially error prone. The second leaves skills with wildy fluctuating strengths, all for the same costs.

If the mass driver was -1 pg per level, that 7pg turns into 2pg, a ~70% reduction in pg cost. If some other weapon was pg heavy and took say, 15pg, then a 5 reduction is only a ~33% reduction.

Not sure how they are going to solve this one.

And vehicles get modules to increase their pg, so odds are even lol.

This should turn into a tank vs dropsuit thread.

It could do with some kind of balancing as well as multiplier dropping a bit. its far too high for the benefit you're supposed to get. seeing as the skill is seperate for each weapon type then ccp could just have it affect them differently. those weapons with low pg it does 1pg per level. those that are high pg it knocks 2 per level.

I mostly have to worry about CPU not PG so meh.

Every thing is in this game that is rounded is is rounded up at 6 or higher and down at 5 or less.

I'm guessing he means that everything 0.6 and higher gets rounded up to 1.0 and everything below 0.6 is rounded down.

I remember reading somewhere, fairly recently, that they were going to change the Engineering skill to 1 point per Level.
I'd guess it'll roll out with the other Racial Dropsuits.