Maybe asked before but..?

[Skie]

What’s better for research a group working together or everyone working apart? I’ve wondered this for some time but have never been able to truly figure it out.

[Guest JediIgor]

Who the heck knows? I know I don't . Even in real life nobody knows!

[Kellern]

In my exerience, having each character research individually has worked the best. You can group them together increasing the chance of a successful research mission, but it also slows down the amount of attempts. Rebel characters have about a 50% success rate and the same goes for the Imperials except Bevel, who gets a higher success chance.

 

Diplomacy works the same way. Take a large group of characters with bad diplomacy and group them together. Each diplomatic mission attempt will get a hidden roll to see if a character is successful. If the attempt is successful, there is a change in loyalty for the system, if not, you get a failed attempt message and the diplomat will continue the mission until you tell them to stop or continue till the system is 100%. When you group a few characters together, each character gets a hidden roll. If one is successful, the diplomacy mission is a success and the diplomacy for the system is adjusted and the character who got the successful roll will get a diplomacy adjustment to their permanent statistics. If a research mission is successful, there is not an adjustment for the character.

 

Mind you, this is all based on what I have experienced with the game. I have not delved into the code side of the game, so this is based on opinion and not fact, so take it for what it is worth.

[Eko]

Well IRL, it is my opinion that a combination works best. Liasing as a team, with individuals or pair (which I find work well) reporting back in with their findings, you can get a lot done. Thats just my opinion of real life.

 

In game I have my researchers work at the closest location they can, so they usualy end up apart anyway.

[DarthTofu]

I tend to group up my people, just because I have bad luck and get no success in such missions (It's a glitch. Just like the one where I lose the game on hard)

[Darth_Rob]

I always have my R&D team work solo missions. I never tried to team them up, so I never personally saw the difference.