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Balance: Agile Racial Trait should probably give flat bonuses

Posted on Monday, May 25, 2015

Accurate trait gives flat bonuses, so they work right out of the box.  Agile gives percentage bonuses.  The problem is the bonus is a multiplier, so this racial trait does absolutely nothing unless and until you manage to research Jamming technology and mount some on your ship.  Then it takes your 10% Jammer and makes it a 12.5% Jammer.  Not exactly blowing the doors off in terms of wonderfulness.

Agile looks like this:

<RaceTrait>
<InternalName>Agile1</InternalName>
<DisplayName>Agile1_Name</DisplayName>
<Description>Agile1_Desc</Description>
<Mod>
<EffectType>Jamming</EffectType>
<Scope>Global</Scope>
<Target>
<TargetType>Ship</TargetType>
</Target>
<BonusType>Multiplier</BonusType>
<Value>0.25</Value>
</Mod>
</RaceTrait>

The fix looks like this:

<BonusType>Flat</BonusType>