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Bug in research power?

Hi,

I'm wondering if there is a bug in how research power is calculated. I am level 12 and I had a CD and TD both level 11, 4.5 stars. My research power was also 4.5 stars and 64%.
A few races ago I changed my TD for a level 12, 5 star TD. My research power was still 4.5 stars, which I can understand and also still 64%.
Today I bought a new level 12, 5 star CD and as expected my research power went up to 5 stars, but still 64%.
I would have expected to see that 64% increase. Can someone explain why it didn't? If I would have known that upfront, I would not have spent money and tokens on buying new staff...

No one?

Do you remember what level the old staff was? If you do, is the new staff really of a different level? I noticed some odd results with staff as well, like research power dropping with leveling up while the star rating did not change and increasing with new staff of the same rating.
At the same time the star ratings were off, like 4.5 and 5 level staff of the same level and 4.5 star staff being different levels. I think that the level of the staff might be what really counts and thus upgrading from a 4.5 star to a 5 star makes no difference if both are the same level while replacing staff with one of the same rating can improve things if the new one is higher level. But I never put that really to a test, the team went on hiatus and this new one isn't high level enough yet.

Yes. As I wrote in my first post, the old staff was level 11, the new ones are level 12. So I would really expect a higher research power.

Hi Yunus, would be great if you can ask Jack about this. I remember having a research power of more than 70% when I was at much lower level. But maybe it then also depends on the level of your opponents.

At least it should be like that, from the ingame help:
Research gives varied rewards based on the level of the competing teams, and the staff of the team conducting research

Also it was mentioned in some older thread that the max research gets lower with the team leveling up. So it might be a cap of sorts, but that wouldn't be the best way to do it because hiring new staff just to find out afterwards it was useless isn't really motivating.

PS: Sorry about missing that you mentioned the staff levels in your post.
Edit: As comparison, with team level 10 and 4 star lvl 9 CD and 4 star lvl 8 TD I get 65%.

Exactly :-) I know better ways of spending 18 tokens than wasting it on staff that doesn't improve your research :-)