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Attributes, Skill Points, and Fractions
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Dornier Pfeil
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#1 - 2015-12-04 19:42:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Dornier Pfeil
Your Primary Attribute contributes its whole value to your Skill Point rate. Your Secondary Attribute only contributes half of its value to your Skill Point rate. What becomes of the fractional 1/2 Attribute if your Secondary happens to be an odd number?
Tipa Riot
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2015-12-04 19:59:18 UTC
Dornier Pfeil wrote:
Your Primary Attribute contributes its whole value to your Skill Point rate. Your Secondary Attribute only contributes half of its value to your Skill Point rate. What becomes of the fractional 1/2 Attribute if your Secondary happens to be an odd number?

What should happen? The attributes define the speed of training not the skillpoint gain number.

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Paranoid Loyd
#3 - 2015-12-04 21:40:21 UTC
Heh, was going to make fun of "Fraction" turns out that's actually what you meant. This has to be a first. Blink

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ergherhdfgh
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2015-12-04 22:33:00 UTC
I pride myself on know a decent amount about skill points and skill training and I do not know the answer to this question. This sounds like a good question. If you come across the answer post it here for the rest of us.

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Paranoid Loyd
#5 - 2015-12-04 22:46:33 UTC
I really don't care enough to find out, but it seems to me for those who do, Evemon can be used to determine the answer....

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Memphis Baas
#6 - 2015-12-04 23:05:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Memphis Baas
Nothing happens to it.

If you get 34.5 skill points per minute (let's assume attributes 24 and 21), that's simply 2070 skillpoints per hour.

However, there isn't a counter that keeps running. Whenever you log in, EVE checks how many points you should have based on the math and how much time has passed, and displays whatever number is calculated, rounded to the nearest integer. If you don't log in, there's no check.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#7 - 2015-12-05 01:00:18 UTC
I once read that EVE calculates to four places, and displays to two.
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#8 - 2015-12-05 01:10:59 UTC
Tau Cabalander wrote:
I once read that EVE calculates to four places, and displays to two.

Then divide by zero.

How did you Veterans start?
Paranoid Loyd
#9 - 2015-12-05 01:27:01 UTC
ShahFluffers wrote:
Tau Cabalander wrote:
I once read that EVE calculates to four places, and displays to two.

Then divide by zero.

#DIV/0!

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Dornier Pfeil
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#10 - 2015-12-08 19:46:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Dornier Pfeil
I didn't know how pedantic to be because I didn't know if this was a thing or not. I wanted to know if the fraction was rounded before the math or after. If after it's an irrelevant trifle. If before then it could amount to about 2% of training time gained or lost. Anyway, the support ticket finally gained an answer and it's after. My confusion arose because the formula uses minutes and if a minute was indivisible, rounding, or truncating, before the math, suggested I should take care to manipulate the fraction in the direction most beneficial. But of course a minute is not an indivisible unit. It is more properly ((P+S/2)/60)/sec. My concern was misplaced.
Kaska Iskalar
Doomheim
#11 - 2015-12-09 05:02:37 UTC
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
Heh, was going to make fun of "Fraction" turns out that's actually what you meant. This has to be a first. Blink

That's why I'm here too. I don't know whether to be annoyed or pleasantly surprised.