The Total Military Strength is just that. All the forces you've collected. The Readiness Rating will ALWAYS be capped at 50% if you stick to single-player. For you to get a Readiness Rating above 50%, you have to play either multiplayer, or the iOS Infiltrator game on the iPad.
The Effective Military Strength is your "actual" rating. If the total strength is 6000, and the readiness rating is at 50%, that means that your effective strength is cut in half to 3000. The Readiness Rating is really just a multiplier.
Playing Multiplayer brings the Readiness rating up to a possible 100%. Which means if you have 6000 Total assets, the Effective strength will be brought up to match. 6000.
However, you DO NOT NEED to play multiplayer to get the best ending. but you DO need to import a ME3 character in for a New Game+ to get the best ending without using multiplayer. You just need 4000-5000 EFFECTIVE Military Strength. So 8000 total. Again, only possible on NG+ without Mulitplayer.
Modifié par Synthetic Frost, 12 mars 2012 - 02:34 .