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[Mr. Unpronouncea...]

Since drain is determined first by F/2, and now by +1/net hit...raising the force by 2 gets twice the result a spellcasting success does, for the same amount of drain.
And even better, resistance is relatively unimportant, as long as you get at least one more hit than the target.

So if you want to do 10 stun damage to someone, you can:

cast a force 5 stunbolt and hope for 5 successes and resist F/2-1+1/net hit = 7S drain,
or
cast a force 9 stunbolt, use one net hit, and resist 5P drain. Same damage, 2 less drain to resist.


Somehow, I don't think this is what they were going for.