Talk:Research Technical Details

Research Time Bugs?

It seems odd to me that all the research projects are evenly divisible by 10 except for the live aliens (everything except for the Sectoid Commander) and the Power Suit. The Sectoid Commander has a time of 190 man-days which is probably the value that the programmers wanted for all the other aliens (currently 192 man-days). As for the Power Suit, it has a time of 205 man-days. I was at a loss to explain this until I wondered what the average time was between Personal Armor and the Flying Suit. Those have research times of 180 and 430 man-days respectively for an average of 305 man-days for the Power Suit (compare this to the current value of 205). This kinda throws up some red-flags to me indicating a possible typo or data entry problem. Just wondering what you guys think of this? --Zombie 17:45, 11 November 2009 (EST)

Edit: Nevermind about the Power Suit being off by 100. Seems I used 174,1 (430 decimal) instead of 74,1 (330 decimal) for the Flying Suit time. Thus the anticipated average for the Power Suit would be 255 (which is now off by 50). Still, it has a 5 at the end and could have been a mistype. Coincidence? --Zombie 22:21, 12 November 2009 (EST)

It makes sense to me. Notice that the progress ratings are almost twice as much as the previous one (8%, 14%, 26%) ... then notice that 330 is almost twice 180. Mid-way between this would be 255... but 250 would be almost halfway between. I think that the 205 is probably a typo of 250.

Also, it doesn't make any sense to have the Sectoid Commander (the second highest-ranking alien) lower than all other aliens, which are all at some incongruous value. It seems pretty clear that some screw-up was copied to all aliens, but probably caught and corrected for the Sectoid Commander... they probably all should've been 190. Compare how all terrorists are 170, and all corpses are 180.

So, agreed. Good points, Zombie. -MikeTheRed 11:17, 3 September 2012 (EDT)