Chimaera's power calculated incorrectly

Product: Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
Platform:Android Phone
What type of device are you experiencing the issue with? Any
OS Version Any
Ally Code: (Find it here: http://bit.ly/AllyCode ) 529-789-915
What type of issue do you have? Gameplay
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Summarize your bug Chimaera's power calculated incorrectly
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Steps to reproduce given below
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Steps to reproduce:
1. Look at the features of my Chimaera (ally code above), and at those of Ethan Geilvta 2 (same fleet arena server, Darksaber Legacy guild).
Here is the comparison:
Feature: My Chimaera compared to Ethan's

Reinforcement slots: 3 == 3

Abilities: all maxed == all maxed
Speed: 142 < 145
Critical Damage: 150% == 150%
Potency: 33.81% < 36.08%
Special Damage: 21172 < 22352
Special Critical Chance: 10% == 10%
Resistance Penetration: 0 == 0
Special Accuracy: 0% == 0%
2. Now look at the power of both ships.

Expected behavior: as no feature in my Chimaera is more powerful than in Ethan's, so I expect that my Chimaera's power is less than the other's power.
Actual behavior:
My power: 41431 > 39571 Ethan's power
My power is 1860 greater than the other's power, despite my ship being less powerful.

Please could you fix this bug, so that the power of a less powerful of any two ships is always smaller?

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EA_HighCommand
7 years ago
Hi, @Trajector and @ChristophIV.

A ships power (Total power in the ship details screen) is the combination of Crew Power and Ship Power. The details of those two can be found under a ship's stats.

Therefore, as @ChristophIV said, the crew members gear level, zeta's etc. are influencing the total power of a ship. This appears to be working as intended.

15 Replies

ChristophIV
Hero+
7 years ago
There is a variation in how your and your opponents Thrawn is geared, modded and zeta'd then.

The closer Thrawn is to complete (all gear pieces, level 15 Mk V mods, Zeta abilities) the higher the GP of Chimaera.
Anonymous
7 years ago
Approved
Can we concentrate on the topic of the post please, which is fixing the bug, not speculating about what causes the bug to be manifested.
ChristophIV
Hero+
7 years ago
I'm telling you it's not a bug, crew members contribute to ship stats, variations in crew leads to variations in overall ship GP.
Anonymous
7 years ago
Approved
I would like to escalate this to your team lead then please for a second opinion.
Reason for escalation: you continue to explain why this "behavior" (which I think a bug, you think it is not) occurs, but I cannot understand why ship power should be used as a measure of ship's crew, when the its only conceivable purpose is to compare if one ship is more powerful than another.
ChristophIV
Hero+
7 years ago
I'm not sure EA work weekends. If you want further opinions can I recommend you post this to the official forums, where I'm sure the vast majority of the player base will tell you the same thing.

I think your extra GP comes from the zeta you have on Thrawn's Ebb and Flow. I guess your opponent doesn't have the zeta, and maybe has an extra piece of g12 equipment. Or his Thrawn is poorer equipped but his Chimaera is 6* vs your 5*. To see how a crew member contributes to ship stats, click the button showing a graph. Crew contributions are in blue brackets.

To give a further example, my 7* Chimaera has 43076 power. It's max GP is 55320. To achieve this I need two zetas on Thrawn, and three pieces of G12+ equipment, so as you can see, crew completion plays a big part in maxing a ship.

My advice is not to get too hung up on the "Power" figure, it's not a fair representation of whether one ship/character is better than another. Clone Wars Chewie can reach higher GP than Chirrut for example.
Anonymous
7 years ago
Approved
1. "I'm not sure EA work weekends." - well you clearly do, as you are responding to this thread. Or are you not an EA official representative?
2. "If you want further opinions can I recommend you post this to the official forums" - I thought this was the official bug reporting forum, if not and you can give a link - I would be grateful.
3. "I think your extra GP comes from the zeta you have on Thrawn's Ebb and Flow." - possibly, however see my answers above, I am not interested in why this bug came about, I just want EA to fix it (although your speculation may be useful for EA officials to fix the bug).
To put it in other words, Thrawn's zeta is not beneficial to Chimaera in any way other than Thrawn's power trickling into Chimaera's power, however clearly the trickle process is broken, as from my comparison above you can see that my speed and damage are all below the other Chimaera. This is precisely a bug report to adress this issue, not to dwell on it as you seem to be attempting to.
4. ""Power" figure, it's not a fair representation of whether one ship/character is better than another" - I could not agree more, this is precisely why this bug came about. Can you give me one good reason it cannot be a "fair representation"? That is a question to EA by the way.
EA_HighCommand
EA QV Team
7 years ago
Hi, @Trajector and @ChristophIV.

A ships power (Total power in the ship details screen) is the combination of Crew Power and Ship Power. The details of those two can be found under a ship's stats.

Therefore, as @ChristophIV said, the crew members gear level, zeta's etc. are influencing the total power of a ship. This appears to be working as intended.
Anonymous
7 years ago
Approved
Hi HighCommander, thanks for your response.
If it is working as intended, the next 2 questions are:
1. Can you expand on what the intention of this measure is?
Is the intention here to show some theoretical measure to the end user to say that my crew happens to be stronger than the opponent's crew, even though crew has no influence on ship battles? In this case, what is the practical intention for such a measure to be shown to end users? E.g. is it helpful in any decision making process for end users?
Or is it a practical way for a player to see that the opponent's ship is more powerful, and so it might help to influence their decision to skip this opponent in favour of one with smaller ship power?
2. If there is no practical purpose of this measure, is there a desire of EA to make an alternative measure/improve this measure that would actually have a practical use for end users, assisting them in their decision-making process?
EA_HighCommand
EA QV Team
7 years ago
Hi @Trajector and thank you for the reply.

I can't go into too many details, but a couple of things worth mentioning.

The crew members stats are influencing the ship's power (speed, potency, crit chance, etc.), and therefore have a practical use in the decision-making process. I would recommend looking at the separate numbers for crew and ship power, despite the fact that the combined power usually is giving a good indicator.
Anonymous
7 years ago
Approved
Thanks for the reply. Clearly crew member stats are not influencing ship's power correctly, if a ship can have a higher power than another ship, yet not a single stat higher.
While I accept it may be "usually" a good indicator, it clearly is not when a crew member has been zeta'ed. It appears zeta'ing a crew member only has the offect on the displayed "ship power", while affecting none of the ship's stats.
If you think it is acceptable for end users to be misled that zeta'ing a ship would make it more powerful, when only the "ship power" indicator is increased without any of the actual ship stats - perhaps I should move this post to "suggestions" section.