Combat target data vs Research

[Cantona66]

What combat target data is affected if Tank research is increasing?

Is it Tank attack and tank defense but not Soft attack/defense?

[Bill101]

It's both soft and tank attack and defense.

[Cantona66]

So in SOE, a tank at level 5 will have Soft attack and defense at 9 and Tank attack and defense 10, right?

With no research there is 4, 4 and 5, 5.

[Hubert Cater]

I believe so and you can experiment in the Editor by setting the max research and then adjusting the properties of the applicable tank units to see how it is affected.

[GetSome]

question re research, to what factor is the speed of research increase by doubling up on research ? x2?

[wlape3]

question re research, to what factor is the speed of research increase by doubling up on research ? x2?

You can check this in the editor. Usually, probability of success is on a sliding scale. To get to level 1 might be 5%, to get to level 2 might be 4%. Probabilities of this type are usually additive so if you are at tech level zero then 2 chits would increase your probability of achieving level 1 to 9% given the previous example.

[Bill101]

Doubling up the chits will double the rate of increase, but as Wlape3 says, this rate decreases as you go up the tech levels.

Consequently once you get up to levels 3-5 it will be a good idea to invest more than 1 chit, whereas at the lower levels you will obtain success fairly quickly with only 1 chit.