Keep the exported ability and the reported anomaly separate
Sekhmet’s local Desert Empress ranks contain two work-speed lines: the base-side value grows20→40, while her own facility value grows30→60. The accompanying description identifies Anubis support and Sekhmet’s facility work. The community400% Alpha claim is not another value in that rank table and should not be relabeled as a guaranteed skill.
Run a useful A/B test
- Choose one Synthesizer recipe and a batch long enough to time reliably.
- Use one worker at a time, the same food/SAN, power, world rates and assigned station.
- Record normal Sekhmet’s completion time, then Alpha Sekhmet’s time for the identical batch.
- Repeat after save/reload, and record game/client/server build strings.
- Report the measured time ratio separately from an inferred work-speed percentage.
The patch boundary is part of the result
Pocketpair’s1.0.4 notes fix a Synthesizer work-speed multiplier after resuming the game. That does not prove it is the same Alpha issue, but it prevents an older clip from establishing current behavior. Current1.0.5 performance remains unverified here.
Invest around the dependable station
The Synthesizer recipe is level 78 with 50 Paloxite Ingots and 10 Ancient Civilization Cores in the snapshot. First solve its intended worker requirement, power and output pickup. If an Alpha outperforms the control on your build, use that measured benefit without rebuilding every production line around an undocumented multiplier.