Kel's Discription and Proc

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So I have Kel the Retributor, one of the ultra rares, equipped on my ship to boost my boarding parties and her description says something along the lines of "33% chance of sending an additional 4 level 3 boarding parties". Now, forgive me if that's not 100% correct, I'm not looking at her in game at the moment, but what I've seen in game is one additional t3 boarding party.

I use boarding party 2, not 3, so that could effect the skill, and I'm honestly happy with even 1 additional shuttle, but I was wondering is it her skill that's messed up or just her description?

Anyone know?

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To me it looks like it is 33% chance to proc per shuttle. It seems like I get a random number each time.

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I believe the bonus shuttles are always level 3 shuttles, regardless of the Boarding Party power, but I don't have the power up in front of me right now.

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Yes, they're always T3 shuttles when the power procs, I don't have an issue with that, but I'm confused about exactly what should happen when the ability activates.

Based on Kel's description I would expect that 1 out of every 3 boarding party actions should launch twice the shuttles. I haven't seen this at all. What I see is that approximately 30% of the time I'll launch a single T3 shuttle along with my T2 wave.

Since I've never seen more then 4 shuttles launch, I'm not sure if I've misunderstood the description or if the ability acts differently at the different tiers. Could you clarify what exactly I SHOULD see?

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When the power procs, it launches an additional set of shuttles, however there is a caveat, which is that the additional shuttles still need enough crew on your ship, so that can result in cases where every possible additional shuttle is not in fact launched.

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When the power procs, it launches an additional set of shuttles, however there is a caveat, which is that the additional shuttles still need enough crew on your ship, so that can result in cases where every possible additional shuttle is not in fact launched.

Perhaps a mention could be made of this? Or even just "up to 4" would work, I think.

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Hmmmm... I may be suffering heavy injuries and casualties early in the fights because of the aggro, but I find it hard to believe I'm always suffering low crew levels. I'll do more testing over the next few days and see if I can get the full 6 shuttles to launch. Thanks.

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Depends on the vessel. Most escorts dont have enough crew to push that many shuttles IIRC, for example.

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Hmmmm... I may be suffering heavy injuries and casualties early in the fights because of the aggro, but I find it hard to believe I'm always suffering low crew levels. I'll do more testing over the next few days and see if I can get the full 6 shuttles to launch. Thanks.

It's not impossible there's another (or new) issue, but last time I tested (which, admittedly, was way back when I put the power together) it seemed to be launching all shuttles when it proc'd.

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Just did another round of testing and I'm getting the same issue, even with 799/800 crew on the assault cruiser. Not sure why it's happening, but I'm only using boarding party 2.

Hopefully that helps in some way. Thanks for the help.

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I tested this last night, and at the most I saw only two extra shuttles, this is with a full crew of 750.

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After 3 days of observing this skill, I have only seen it proc 3 shuttles once. Maybe it procs per shuttle (or a graphics glitch)?

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At the moment, it is on my list of things to check into.