Thread:Kitahara/@comment-25283969-20150509185711/@comment-25832576-20150524234118

Yeah its pretty silly, but thats how it is (it is also written in wikiwiki). I gave 35 and 36 a try with 5 sparkles when I first read that because I didn't believe it either, but both expeditions returned with normal success.

From a programming perspective, I'm fairly certain the game checks if all the ships are sparkled first before applying the formula. To give a super-simplified example, something like this: IF all ships sparkled = true THEN call GS formula; ELSE success = normal success; In case that didn't make sense (my pseudocode/programming is rusty now), what I mean is it instantly defaults to a normal success without even considering the formula if the game sees an unsparkled ship included in the team, thus it doesn't directly mess up the formula.