Psi question about power

[mynazzaraxxsyn]

POWER

Power is the measure of mental strength as it applies to telepathic and
magical abilities. It governs the ability of the character to "channel"
its magic or telepathic powers and, in the case of the illithid and
yuan-ti races, also determines how much mental power they have.

Currently the power stat is only used by the illithid and yuan-ti races
for their telepathic abilities.

See also: "RACIAL STATS", "CLASS STATS"

What exactly does power do? According to help power it helps with psi skills. How exactly does it help? It sure isn't with mana. All illithids within about 5psp have the exact same psp. Psi with 90 power has the same as if 113 power. Can a coder please throw us a fricking bone here?

[Cirath]

Most likely it determines how effective your powers are, much like charisma doesn't do anything for bards except determing how effective their songs are.

[kiryan]

why dont you just test it out in game and figure out if power has any use. why should the gods tell you how it works? maybe they can just start posting code so we can see how everything works. I'd like to request snippets from the ress code when you guys have time.

sarcasm aside, my guess is that it has either an effect on damage or an effect on saving throws. I thought i got resisted less on high int mobs with higher power, but there really wasn't that much max power to be had when i was playing my squid. I couldnt ever discern any impact on damage domination duration of self only skills or anything like that.