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John Demonsbane
Unorganized Ninja Infantry Tactics
League of Infamy
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Posted - 2014.05.21 15:06:00 -
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Unless you or someone else are going in and out of an Amarr logi suit, it's a bug. The displayed time isn't always the same as the actual spawn time and sometimes there's a lag and the counter starts late.
FYI: The Amarr logi bonus at level 5 makes a stable uplink spawn faster than a proto uplink without the bonus.
The more you know...
(<-- actual uplink expert)
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John Demonsbane
Unorganized Ninja Infantry Tactics
League of Infamy
3398
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Posted - 2014.05.21 20:51:00 -
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Duran Lex wrote:John Demonsbane wrote:Unless you or someone else are going in and out of an Amarr logi suit, it's a bug. The displayed time isn't always the same as the actual spawn time and sometimes there's a lag and the counter starts late.
FYI: The Amarr logi bonus at level 5 makes a stable uplink spawn faster than a proto uplink without the bonus.
The more you know...
(<-- actual uplink expert) He isn't talking about actual time taken to spawn, he is referring to the exact number of seconds it shows when you should spawn. These number change based on outside factors. Whether it be recency of death and/or recency of uplink usage, I'm not entirely sure myself though the aforementioned seem to make the most sense after trying to determine it's cause. Some expert  
Indeed they do change (both of them), based on the amarr logi bonus, whatever bizarre delay they helpfully coded into all the bonuses for 1.8, and of course, the aforementioned bugs. That's the main problem with this damn game, you never really know if your testing is inaccurate, or it's lag, or some intermittent bug. Drove us crazy trying to test the Amarr logi bonus when 1.8 was put in. Curse you, tacnet!
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John Demonsbane
Unorganized Ninja Infantry Tactics
League of Infamy
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Posted - 2014.05.21 23:28:00 -
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There are a lot of wild theories rolling around here. Personally I think a lot of these observations are correct but are the result of 3 factors and not this crazy complicated functionality that is being proposed:
1) issues with the Amarr logi bonus being applied (in)consistently
2) server lag
3) bugs (mostly tacnet bugs)
When I was testing the "new" (at the time) Amarr logi bonus, one constant confounder was that my observations were not always the same as my counterparts. My conclusion is that, as the uplink dropper, you may see different spawn times because the bonus does not consistently apply when you are not out on the field in an Amarr logi suit.
Others, who are spawning while you are "alive" and active in the logi suit, will see the correct times.
Just like a lot of these posts, this may be just a spurious association or observation but I will tell you it was fairly consistent that I saw different times than my assistants. Though, I will concede that I was switching suit classes at the same time in the process of testing the bonus in a specific way, and not what is being talked about here. So, as a scientist I can't claim the data to be completely applicable.
Quitting cold turkey was impossible. The forum patch is helping me kick the habit!
See you in Destiny
psn: bobswerski
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