I posted this at the exact time i started a enhancement protocol development i.,e light infantry hiring.  I have my protocol enhancement development at 50%  and engaged and i am going to report here in 47 hours to prove that this bonus has no effect on reducing the time it takes for the upgrade.

On closer examination i have realised 2 facts

1., I was correct it does not speed up the protocol development

2., However it claims to speed up enhancement protocol development.

3. Currently i am developing Light infantry hiring speed which i  is enhancement protocol. 

4. However it was during an enhancement upgrade i had noticed it was having nil effect.

I  shall retest again in 2 days when i upgrade an enhancement protocol. 

Hi 

I have a question if the protocol says it has 2d to complete and when started it starts at 2d 23hr to complete,. does this in fact mean it will take 71 hours to complete,. or does the the 23hr really just the countdown for the 2d part. 

It would seem the protocol bonus either does work or simply does not work depending on how it countsdown the clock, sorry for being confusing but the protocol states 2 days to complete and yet when started it posted a time of 2d 23hr and yet today it is at 1d 1hr  after 22 hours running.

Yes but does the protocol development speed bonu bonus only apply to the encrypted protocols or does it apply to the unencrypted too. Does it apply to all protocols.

The level 6 armour hiring speed protocol- for example states that it takes 2 days to develop. I f was to develop that protocol with the 50% speed development active then i find it still takes 2 full days to develop.,

However i have discovered that when you do start the 2 day armor hiring speed protocol level  6 to upgrade to level 7,. the clock starts at 2d 23hrs

which is 3 days and not 2 days., So if you could properly explain if the time is not accurately presented in the protocols or if the bonus simply does nothing. If it is actually 2 23 hrs then the protocol does work but then the question is why there are the upgrade is so misleading to imply it is only 2 days., 

Sir...remember your UCAV will need to be active for your "bonus" to work..and will only work while UCAV is active

There i have posted the results and times so far and the protocol system simply does not work properly.

It has been ten hour and yet it has only completed 4 hours according to the system.,

I wonder if your protocol bonus increases the time it takes for the enhancement to develop rather than decreases.

Whatever this issue need to be looked at,. as i cant keep wasting a slot on protocol bonus that doesn't work..,.,.,..

Please examine and explain why it has only upgraded 4 hours when in fact it should have upgraded 10 hours

Raging Bro said:

There i have posted the results and times so far and the protocol system simply does not work properly.

It has been ten hour and yet it has only completed 4 hours according to the system.,

I wonder if your protocol bonus increases the time it takes for the enhancement to develop rather than decreases.

Whatever this issue need to be looked at,. as i cant keep wasting a slot on protocol bonus that doesn't work..,.,.,..

Please examine and explain why it has only upgraded 4 hours when in fact it should have upgraded 10 hours

Sir...Contact Support and include all screen shots you have regarding this issuw..Support has the technology at tgier level to access your game and check  that your game is operating correctly..We do not possess that ability ( technology ) at the forum level...Support will be able to correct any problems they may find

This bonus doesn't cut the time, it increases the speed. That's different. And you're right, once 3 hours expire, the speed goes back to normal. However, the total time for such a research will take less than the original time without UCAV bonus. 

this bug is still present.

My problem is the following:

- I start developing a protocol that takes 2d 21h 24m

- I activate the speed bonus

- I'm going to check the remaining time and it's still 2d 21h 24m (so nothing has changed!).

I am perfectly aware that when the 3 hours of bonus is over, the protocol development time returns to 2d 21h ... BUT WHILE THE BONUS IS ACTIVE (3h) the time should be shortened !! (As it was before it was affected by this bug!!)

Red-Terror said:

My problem is the following:

- I start developing a protocol that takes 2d 21h 24m

- I activate the speed bonus

- I'm going to check the remaining time and it's still 2d 21h 24m (so nothing has changed!).

I am perfectly aware that when the 3 hours of bonus is over, the protocol development time returns to 2d 21h ... BUT WHILE THE BONUS IS ACTIVE (3h) the time should be shortened !! (As it was before it was affected by this bug!!)

You're right. Once you activate your UCAV, time should be cut a bit. Please report it to our Support Team: https://plariumsupport.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new I could not reproduce this issue. it's working fine on my test account.

scott-817 said:

 I think there is some lag in the recalculation that only seems to show up after a hour or so.  For the first half hour I see no difference but after an hour the values change to what they should be. Maybe its some weird kind of calculation that needs to run a hour before it figures out what it should be. It does change though if yo monitor it through the entire process in my testing at least.

It should recalculate values as soon as you activate the bonus. Probably some kind of lag.

RobertShatz said:

Sir...Support has the technology to test the UCAV times..If they say that the times displayed is correct,  then I would have to bank on what Support says...Any reduction of time is only in effect as long as the UCAV is active..Once the UCAV is inactive the times revert...The trick would be to keep the UCAV active, and please bear in mind that as the time for protocol development gets less the reduction of that time decreases as well..

Please read the Post before you reply. I am just a little amazed that after a month of posting you haven't understood my position, or the content contained in this thread has covered. I guess i should not go to all the trouble of posting print screens of the active and inactive times if your not going to even look at them and understand better what the thread is about. 

I am aware the time reverts and for the hundred'th time that is not the issue. read my post, it is 2 posts up and specifically addresses the confusion your causing by not properly reading posts.  

There is a bug regardless and unless they fix it then people are not getting the bonus. 

Raging Bro said:

The reason this problem is so difficult to explain and communicate is because people think that we are looking at the reduced time when we activate the bonus and then looking at the normal time after the bonus expires. That is not the case. 

I have researched this problem, and i have refreshed cleared cache and made sure UCAV was not active and the bonus not saved. I have found that there is a bug- That after you start the protocol, you have a set time, then later after applying the protocol bonus, and after it expires for soem inexplical reason the time to completion actually increases beyond the first set time. 

Everytime i try to explain, the devs and mods always think im looking at the bonus time, and the time has simply reverted back to the orgional time. However that is not what is happening, there is a bug. 

This bug may be cancelling out any effect the protocol bonus has and in fact may make the protocol longer to research. 

I did raise it with technical but they were quite argumentative and insisted there is no problem.

So this bug is going to continue. 

Hi Robert 

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Raging Bro said:

There i have posted the results and times so far and the protocol system simply does not work properly.

It has been ten hour and yet it has only completed 4 hours according to the system.,

I wonder if your protocol bonus increases the time it takes for the enhancement to develop rather than decreases.

Whatever this issue need to be looked at,. as i cant keep wasting a slot on protocol bonus that doesn't work..,.,.,..

Please examine and explain why it has only upgraded 4 hours when in fact it should have upgraded 10 hours

Protocol doesn't decrease time, it increases speed, but only for 3 hours while UCAV is active. Let's imagine that you're driving a car. Your final destination is in 200 km from your start point. Your speed is 50 kmph.

So it would take 4 hours to reach destination, right?

But after 1 hour driving you decide to drive 100% faster. Your speed is now 100 kmph for the next hour. If you continued driving with that speed till the end of your route, it would take 2,5 hour in total. Much less than the original 4 hours, right?

But let's imagine that after 1 hour your speed goes back to 50 kmph. And you still have 50 km to go. That's 1 hour more.

So the total time will be 3 hours. Not 4 hours like it would be without that speed bonus.

It works the same with in-game bonuses. Even though the speed will go back to the original value after your bonus expires, it will still give you a significant boost.

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I am aware of that and it has been active now for 75% of time up until this point at 50% protocol development bonus