SirManBoy
Molon Labe.
League of Infamy
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Posted - 2013.07.18 17:01:00 -
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CCP, why you no math right? <-- IGÇÖm kidding. I donGÇÖt talk like an idiotGǪmost of the time.
All of this talk about the Caldari logi nerf motivated my interest to figure out just how bad you guys are going to jack up my suit and it led to some rather interesting discoveries, which led to some confusion on my part about your math. You see, I have what I believe to be the max shielding allowed for a Caldari logi with 679 shielding. I presume this is correct because I use 5 complex shield extenders on my proto suit and I have both dropsuit shield upgrades and shield extension at level 5. Initially, this is how I thought the math worked out:
Suit: Base shielding = 180 HP
Modules: Complex shield extender (x5) = 330 HP
Computation 1: Base shielding (180 HP) x Dropsuit shield upgrade skill @ level 5 (1.25) = 225 HP
Computation 2: Complex shield extenders (330 HP) x (1 + [Shield extension skill @ level 5 (.10) + Caldari logi extender efficacy bonus @ level 5 (.25)] = 1.35) = 445.5 HP
Computation 1 (225 HP) + Computation 2 (445.5 HP) = 670.5 HP
Seeing the discrepancy between my answer and my actual shielding of 679 HP, I quickly realized that this could not be correct. Surely, 8.5 HP must be accounted for somewhere.
This is when one of my corp mates gave me a different take on the formula and explained to me that, based on how itGÇÖs done in EVE, my shielding should be computed in the following way:
Suit: Base shielding = 180 HP
Modules: Complex shield extender (x5) = 330 HP
Computation 1: Base shielding (180 HP) + [Complex shield extenders (330 HP) x Shield extension skill @ level 5 (1.10) = 363 HP] = 543 HP
Computation 2: Computation 1 (543 HP) x Dropsuit shield upgrades (1.25) = 678.75 HP
678.75 HP rounds up to the magic number of 679 HP (my actual shielding), but this second method of calculating the shielding doesn't even include the current Caldari logi bonus of 5% shield extender efficacy per level (essentially, 25% shield extender efficacy for the proto suit).
What gives here? How are you guys calculating the shielding for the Caldari logi suit? And if the second method of calculating the shielding is correct, where is my current shield extender bonus? Shouldn't I actually have shielding far in excess of 700 HP?
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