Droid speed and turn meter with JE

"LastJedi;580143" wrote:
Help! Something weird is going on with Speed. I don't understand TM at all, anymore.

My JE is not omega'd yet, so he gives 40% TM.
His speed in my test matches is 250+, which means he goes before other droid teams JE at speed 200. This is indeed the case,

My JE goes in tick 4, I presume. Since his adjusted speed is 256. He gives 40% TM to my droids in tick 4. My droids are still not full yet. But in tick 5, they should fill, right? Any droid with speed 120+, 5 ticks is 600 points, and 40% of TM bar is 400 points, right? 600+400 = time to act? So they should get same chance to go as the other team's JE, who also fills in tick 5. I have 3 droids with high enough speed to act in tick 5. So other teams JE should have a 25% chance of going first in tick 5, no?

In 3 matches in a row, the other team JE goes next, AND all three of his droids go before mine. Every single one, every time. I know that is possible, but the odds say that is like winning the lottery? I did this against 2 different droids teams, one with a lvl 7 recalibrat and speed 200-249, and against another team with an omega Recalibrate, speed 200-249. I don't get this TM stuff, anymore.

If anyone can explain, please help.

Also, I read someone else says that speed 128 is the magic number for a droid to fill TM (with a speed 200 JE, I assume). I have played with this number, and indeed, if one of my droids is 128 or higher, it appears (so far) they always go before a droid with 127 or lower. (I did not verify the EXACT number, but it must be this or very close). If I do the TM math, this doesn't make any sense.

When Recalibrate give 40%/45% TM, does that not equal 400/450 out of 1000 points in the toon's TM bar? Or is it giving plus 45% of whatever TM the toon already has at that time?!?!? If that's the case, it seems like you do not want to get JE's speed over 250

If your JE is too fast, and doesn't fill the droids turn meter when using recalibrate, it is allowing the enemy JE to go next. Because the enemy JE is slower, or has omegad recalibrate, his use of recalibrate is actually filling his droids turn meter, letting them go before yours do.

This is why it is important to manage the speed gap between JE and your droids. You want JE to fill turn meter completely, allowing them to go in the same round. Otherwise, the enemy JE can get in between your JE and droids. Either slow your JE down, speed your droids up, or omega JEs recalibrate.