Hello Gripen,

I have noticed recently (this may or may not be a recent change) that the bonus from 'Skirmish Warfare Link - Rapid Deployment' modules takes a stacking penalty when combined with the bonus applied when overheating propulsion modules.

For example, a fully skilled cold-gas MWD with no affecting implants, affected by a fully-skilled T2 rapid deployment link on a bonused command ship with the mind link, will display 821.81% in-game and in EFT. When overheated, EFT predicts it should reach 1232.7%, but the actual in-game value is about 1195.3%, often a difference of over 100 meters per second.

Here's an actual example of an ingame test (this included a zor's hyperlink implant):

Strength of warfare link: 30.1875%
Unmodified MWD velocity bonus: 662.8125%
Overheated without links: 994.21875% (+50.0%)
Cold with links: 862.899023437% (+30.1875% over unlinked)
Overheated with links: 1255.06754311% (+89.3549% over unmodified, 26.2366% over unlinked)

This indicates that the bonus from the warfare link is only being applied at 86.912% effectiveness, which is the exact strength of an effect in the second-rank stacking penalty slot (since the warfare link of around 30% is weaker than the 50% from overheating).

These stacking penalties are already accounted for when computing optimal range for overheated webs and warp scramble modules, and there is no stacking penalty yet for the links that reduce the cycle time of repair modules. It appears that the stacking for propulsion overheating was either overlooked some time ago, or added to the game only recently.

Thanks for your work.

No, it doesn't.