excellent job ! a thoroughly compelling dissertation ! +1 should be standard reading lol
i'm posting a link to this on my legion's facebook group page

Base xp for npc hit is 2.1 per energy not 2.2
Range 8-13 flat distribution.

Lol close enough for me though, Im no maths genius.

And that was a write up for our fb group when I started up Torment.

At one point, when explaining the xp ratio of a particular NPC, you say that 3 attacks=10 energy and that
60= 4
10

I think you meant:

60= 4
15

'Cause I'm a maths grinch.

I did say 3 hits = 10 energy, so yeah it should have said 15.

no, but we have a Mento...

for the most part you just want to get below 200 scan... while this doesn't affect the chance of whether or not a rare or extremely rare appears, it will affect which ones appear

Meanas the aim is just to get to rank 150 (or further, if I can), would 30 (short) ranks of terraformer/toxic purifier/PDOlessness be worth while, to avoid assassins/RTC aswell?

I can manage 20x my attack with my current set up, easy. It's the energy that's going to stop me doing this...

So... basically, I either have to:
Wait until I have gained enough rank points which have been put into engineers that I can achive the auto rank OR research Intra-D colliders, which I can't afford.
Once I have managed the autorank, I need to put all my rank up points into engineers so that I can sustain it, and keep my attack up via. prisoners etc.

Well, this should be fun. When I finish Dark Energy, it will be time to try and see how far off I come.