Cities and Buffs

[StepoKedur]

Hi all

In general chat tonight we had a little discussion, and we hoped to continue it here.

The theme of the discussion was how do player city specialisations and buildings affect medical and entertainer buffs?

There are as you know a few permutations...

Medical Centre (10% healing for docs)
Entertainment District (10% healing for ents)
Scientific Society (10% healing for ents and docs)

Then there are buff venues.

Cantina (ents can /register there - and get bonus?)
Faction base (ents and docs can /register here and get bonus)
Hospital (docs can /register there (only if a med centre or scientific society city status?)and get bonus?)

Then there are tapes and 'extras'...(in a vanilla setting)
Ent:
Am I right in thinking the tapes affect strength and the flourishes affect duration?

Doc:
Am I right in thinking bivoli increases strength, and doc tapes increase duration? (or is it vice versa)?

Pop your thoughts here and I'll make a chart soon enough to put all these permutations in a sensible readable manner

[jonnyfurious]

Tapes, biv, and med center/scientific society bonus all increase Doctor buff strength. Duration is set when the buff packs are crafted and it does not change with the bonuses.

Entertainment district/scientific society increases the duration of Entertainer buffs and mind enhancement tapes increase their strength.

[MikeMike]

Faction base have it's own bonus that is added to the city specialization.

[StepoKedur]

So far so good. Took those statements and added them to my wee chart Of course we can add up the bonuses after.

https://i.imgur.com/kkatT9t.jpg

What are the blanks gonna be then?

[tmyers1065]

To the best of my Knowledge Entertainers DO NOT get a buff Effectiveness Bonus, they get a Duration Bonus from City Specialization.
Ents buffing in a base do get +25% to Effectiveness, which is "less" then a taped one (A Base Ent cant over buff a taped 125% Buff)
Ent Buffing cap would be 150% then, +25 tapes +25% Buffs, for 3 Hours in Ent District (Science Same I think)

Doctors get Effectiveness From Bivloi, Clothing, Droid, Base & City Spec.
Best Doctor Buff I have seen is 3415 or so in Base in Medical City (Science Same I think)

[StepoKedur]

Hope I got what you are saying right here:

To the best of my Knowledge Entertainers DO NOT get a buff Effectiveness Bonus, they get a Duration Bonus from City Specialization.
Ents buffing in a base do get +25% to Effectiveness, which is "less" then a taped one (A Base Ent cant over buff a taped 125% Buff)
Ent Buffing cap would be 150% then, +25 tapes +25% Buffs, for 3 Hours in Ent District (Science Same I think)

Doctors get Effectiveness From Bivloi, Clothing, Droid, Base & City Spec.
Best Doctor Buff I have seen is 3415 or so in Base in Medical City (Science Same I think)

So a fully taped ent would not benefit from a base, but a none taped ent in a base would give the equivalent effectiveness to a fully taped ent elsewhere?

In an ent district or a scientific society, an ent would increase the buff's duration by a further 25% taking it to 125% of the recipient's mind stats, right?

Would there be an extended cap on the 125 at all? We know that is defences et al food overrides caps to boost the normal top end limit. Could this be the case here?

It's all very complex and wonderful this!

[StepoKedur]

Some things seem amiss from what they were on SOE here...