The Pirate's Guide to Attacking Nationals in PvP

[Chawar]

Originally Posted by silent_k Reload is a diminishing returns attribute. Put on two 8.75% reload mods and you'll see that you got less than 17.5% speed bonus. I haven't figured out exactly how it works cause everytime I calculate it, it doesn't match what I think it should, but it seems to be clear that reload has diminishing returns, maybe even more than it seems like it mathematically should.

Basically 100% reload bonus would decrease your reload time in 50%, that is the cap.

[Jane Kurlander]

The way I read it, a 25% reload bonus would decrease reload time by 20%.

Reload SPEED = 125% therefore reload TIME = 80%.

Yes?

[biggus]

Originally Posted by Jane Kurlander The way I read it, a 25% reload bonus would decrease reload time by 20%. Reload SPEED = 125% therefore reload TIME = 80%. Yes?

Errrr... Huh?

This is explained elsewhere, but I'll try to do it justice.
Let's say your gundeck reloads at 20 seconds. Think of it this way... your guys are doing 1 unit of work per second, meaning you need 20 units of work to reload.
If you get 10% reload your guys do 1.1 units of work per second so 20/1.1=18.18 sec reload

If you get 100% reload your guys do 2 units of work per second so 20/2=10

Reload is capped at 100%, so the best you will ever do is cutting your base ship reload time in half.

-biggus

[Jane Kurlander]

OK I think I was right I just couldn't explain it in your concise and accurate terms. Thanks for the clarification.