Jack flagrantfool
Doomheim
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Posted - 2012.12.28 22:52:00 -
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So, I have the standard passive booster activated on my main character (the booster you have to select from the character screen). over the past three week I have also purchased the passive booster augmentation for this character and today I just bought my fourth. Today, after buying my booster and before equipping it, I decided to time the speed difference in passive skill point accrual before and after activating the passive booster augmentation on my main character. The following were the results:
Before applying the passive booster augmentation: 3.4 seconds per skill point
After applying the passive booster augmentation: 3.4 seconds-áper skill point
The passive booster (as stated in its description) is supposed to give you a plus 50% passive "skill gain bonus", which I translated to mean that if I apply the passive booster to my main character it should drop the time to accru a single skill point from 3.4 second to 1.7 seconds, hence 50%, but it does not.
So I am forced to draw either one of two conclusions:
1. Either there is a bug and the passive booster is not functioning properly
2. Or (and much more likely) the passive booster augmentation is not stackable with the selectable passive booster from the character select screen.
In the description for the passive booster augmentation, it states the following:
"NOTE: passive boosters will continue to work on non-primary clones as a factor of the base skill point accrual rate. (non-primary clones without a passive skill booster do not accrue skill points at all.)"
Nowhere in the above quote does it state that the passive booster augmentation -áis not stackable with the selectable passive booster from the character screen, and, since a 50% increase (as stated in the passive booster description) to zero is still zero, upon initially evaluating the passive booster augmentations I just assumed that the 50% was in reference to a reduction in skill point accrual time, and, I further assumed that it would function with the selectable passive booster from the character select screen. Well, apparently, I couldn't have been more wrong.
So, now I have wasted 28,000 AUR (real money) on nonfunctional passive boosters, due to the fact that CCP did not properly describe their function. The description for the passive booster augmentation should read something along the lines of:
"the passive booster augmentation is not stackable with the selectable passive booster from the character select screen."
As to avoid any confusion at all.
So, was the description for the passive booster augmentation purposefully left very vague, in order to dupe people into buying something they don't need (tell you what I'm feeling pretty cheated right now) or was this an honest mistake?
Regardless, I would like a 28,000 AUR refund CCP, because I see this as being your fault. |