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With the upcoming addition of the Looter professions which have a large possibility of including skills gained in the currently existing "Investigator" professions (Animal Investigator, Mutant Investigator, Robot Investigator), I've decided to revisit testing Scanning skillgain as discussed here:
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?301242-Scanning-skills-info-ES500-vs-LS-V
I suspected that, despite skill gain sizes being identical between the two scanners, one having 4.39x as much decay as the other, that the difference would only be seen in the average frequency of skill gains between the two scanners, and thus only be visible in testing the raw quantity of skills gained in a large sample size.
So, I bought a LifeScanner IV which has 3.96x as much decay as my Chikara InvestaFoe ES500 and killed 1000 fouls, scanning each and every single one of them before killing them, recording my skill quantities in all related skills before and after the 1000 scans, once with the Chikara InvestaFoe ES500 and once with the LifeScanner IV
Note: I was also using 10% Skill Bonus pill during these tests for every scan minus around 10-20 scans for each, I also did not include Intelligence skillgain as it can't be measured in PED and would be interfered with from my healing tool, and Perception skillgain since there would be a major interference there with the hunting activity.
Chikara InvestaFoe ES500 TEST:
BEGIN
FOULS: 2150/5000
Scan Animal: 133.6
Probing: 43.1
Analysis: 82.3
Biology: 40.1
Botany: 30.5
Computer: 516.3
Zoology: 10.4
END
FOULS: 3150/5000
Scan Animal: 226.6 (~0.158PED)
Probing: 63.1 (~0.025PED)
Analysis: 108.5 (~0.038PED)
Biology: 62.6 (~0.033PED)
Botany: 50.9 (~0.028PED)
Computer: 516.9 (~0.005PED)
Zoology: 15.9 (~0.01PED)
Total excluding Perception: ~0.297PED
Cost: 8.20PED
LifeScanner-IV TEST:
BEGIN
FOULS: 3150/5000
Scan Animal: 226.6
Probing: 63.1
Analysis: 108.5
Biology: 62.6
Botany: 50.9
Computer: 516.9
Zoology: 15.9
END
FOULS: 4150/5000
Scan Animal: 296.7 (~0.144PED)
Probing: 79.6 (~0.025PED)
Analysis: 133.7 (~0.041PED)
Biology: 82.9 (~0.03PED)
Botany: 69.6 (~0.026PED)
Computer: 517.9 (~0.008PED)
Zoology: 25.3 (~0.015PED)
Total excluding Perception: ~0.289PED
Cost: 32.5PED
My conclusion is that these two numbers fall within the standard deviation of each other, and that including Perception (but excluding 10% Bonus Skill pill) the average skill value in PED from 1000 scans, regardless of scanner, is likely around 0.30PED of the various skills involved in that Investigator profession.
So, basically, don't ever use the LifeScanners ever no matter what, anything else is better, and ES500 is still currently the best scanner in the game.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?301242-Scanning-skills-info-ES500-vs-LS-V
I suspected that, despite skill gain sizes being identical between the two scanners, one having 4.39x as much decay as the other, that the difference would only be seen in the average frequency of skill gains between the two scanners, and thus only be visible in testing the raw quantity of skills gained in a large sample size.
So, I bought a LifeScanner IV which has 3.96x as much decay as my Chikara InvestaFoe ES500 and killed 1000 fouls, scanning each and every single one of them before killing them, recording my skill quantities in all related skills before and after the 1000 scans, once with the Chikara InvestaFoe ES500 and once with the LifeScanner IV
Note: I was also using 10% Skill Bonus pill during these tests for every scan minus around 10-20 scans for each, I also did not include Intelligence skillgain as it can't be measured in PED and would be interfered with from my healing tool, and Perception skillgain since there would be a major interference there with the hunting activity.
Chikara InvestaFoe ES500 TEST:
BEGIN
FOULS: 2150/5000
Scan Animal: 133.6
Probing: 43.1
Analysis: 82.3
Biology: 40.1
Botany: 30.5
Computer: 516.3
Zoology: 10.4
END
FOULS: 3150/5000
Scan Animal: 226.6 (~0.158PED)
Probing: 63.1 (~0.025PED)
Analysis: 108.5 (~0.038PED)
Biology: 62.6 (~0.033PED)
Botany: 50.9 (~0.028PED)
Computer: 516.9 (~0.005PED)
Zoology: 15.9 (~0.01PED)
Total excluding Perception: ~0.297PED
Cost: 8.20PED
LifeScanner-IV TEST:
BEGIN
FOULS: 3150/5000
Scan Animal: 226.6
Probing: 63.1
Analysis: 108.5
Biology: 62.6
Botany: 50.9
Computer: 516.9
Zoology: 15.9
END
FOULS: 4150/5000
Scan Animal: 296.7 (~0.144PED)
Probing: 79.6 (~0.025PED)
Analysis: 133.7 (~0.041PED)
Biology: 82.9 (~0.03PED)
Botany: 69.6 (~0.026PED)
Computer: 517.9 (~0.008PED)
Zoology: 25.3 (~0.015PED)
Total excluding Perception: ~0.289PED
Cost: 32.5PED
My conclusion is that these two numbers fall within the standard deviation of each other, and that including Perception (but excluding 10% Bonus Skill pill) the average skill value in PED from 1000 scans, regardless of scanner, is likely around 0.30PED of the various skills involved in that Investigator profession.
So, basically, don't ever use the LifeScanners ever no matter what, anything else is better, and ES500 is still currently the best scanner in the game.
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