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ET429 wrote:

But the key was if the light or unit was at a lower percent, lets say 90% instead of 97% with the same rating, The final assembly % will increase in order to achieve the rate 10 result. Example would be you may need to hit 80+% in final assembly instead of 77%. I used lower quality resources in the fluid pump once and had to hit at least 90% to get a rate 13 even though the pump was still a rate 6.

The higher quality the mining units or pumps used in assembly will result in lowering the percentage needed in final assembly to reach the max rate.

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I can confirm your findings.

Background - scoring resources the usual way: Score = (0.25 * HR + 0.25 * SR + 0.5 * UT)

Got a contract for 13-rate floras. Pulled out some 80something% 6BER HHMs made from "cheap stuff". Experimented the flora up to 93%, and it was still rate 12. This is with pretty uber steel 950, polymer 900, and ore 900.

Note: Polymer 900 had no heat resistance. Score it that way, you get 680. Final assembly works out to 86.5% if you score the polymer at 680, but if you score it "my way", you get 93.1%, which matches what I got on assembly. And yet, it was rate 12.

"Fine!", says I. I throw some 95% steel into the HHMs and get 'em to 93%. I then use some of my precious UberSteel(tm) that spawned in the first month of release, which scores 977. And I buy some UberIron(tm) for "metal" that scores 968.

Before: 8?% Good-HHM6, 950 Steel, 900 Poly, 900 Ore, 93% experimentation = 12 BER

After: 93% Uber-HHM6, 977 Steel/968 Metal, 900 Poly, 900 Ore, 84% experimentation = 13 BER with two points left over.

Theoretically, I could have taken that harvester up to 94.8%, but after throwing away four (!) heavies that night, I stopped experimenting and made the schematic. No way was I gonna critfail on an experimentation and lose another heavy.

Now that I've seen this thread, it looks like I could have easily done 13% using my 950-score steel the first time around, (rather than digging into the Private Special Reserve Steel), had I used the 950-steel in the HHM.

Conclusion: Not all BER6 subcomponents are alike. An expensive lesson.