Sacred 2:Faster Increase of Survival Bonus

This modifier has gone through a journey of a lot of myths for what it does:

Contrary to the name of this modifier, it does not increase the rate the player gains their Survival Bonus. In the days of CM-Patch, it was believed that this modifier directly increases your survival bonus, so in the Community Patch, the name of this modifier is changed to "Survival Bonus" +X% to more accurately describe what it does, but the numbers don't fit with the numbers you're seeing ingame when equipping an item with this modifier.

It has been suspected that this Bonus might directly multiply your ingame combat time. Since the formula for your Survival Bonus is S=T/(T+6), where T is your ingame combat time measured in hours, from there we could calculate that the formula for what this modifier actually does would be:

S_2=((1+B)6S)/((1+B)6S+6(1-S))  where S is your Survival Bonus without the modifier, S_2 is your Survival Bonus with the modifier and B is the modifier bonus.

And indeed that would fit the numbers we're seeing ingame. However there is one problem: Your survival bonus directly adds to your Chance to find valuables. Since all instances of this bonus are added together, one can calculate the amount of Ctfv your Survival Bonus currently adds by subtracting the amount you get from armor/weapons equipped from the total amount visible when clicking on the sigma sign in your inventory. Here's the catch: "Survival Bonus" +X% has absolutely zero impact on that.

Currently it is believed that your Survival Bonus as visible ingame is not really your Survival Bonus but a "dummy"-number as given by above formula, and that "Survival Bonus" +X% just increases your character's attributes so that it fits this "dummy" Survival Bonus.