Talk:Engineering Lab/@comment-70.176.108.146-20120831074840/@comment-4557698-20120905222000

Ah, I see where I was wrong. I knew that those numbers weren't percentages. The mistake I made is comparing the old table to this one. The old L1's numerical value (at least, in the revision I checked) was that unused number, so everything was shifted by one place. That made me think that the 8 was both a 7-bar and a 6-bar, making me think that numbers are actually related to chance, but in a different way. I.e. 2^n= % of success or something like that.

As for the actual chance, I might be closing in on what is the actual chance. With a new account I made (just in case Kabam later bans who exploited the bug) I tried that multiple-click thing. ASSUMING that L5+ upgrades have the same chance, I'd say it's somewhere below 1%. I took a dozen parts to L6, and I needed to try between 50ish and 150ish times, give or take 15-20. So it MAY be around 1%.

Funniest part is, I took 3 of them to L7, and it was easier than upgrading them to L6. Don't know if I was just lucky or if the calculation is even more messed up than what we think.

I'll keep testing and update everything I find out!