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Ok, quick question on experimentation that I hope someone can explain...

When something says experimental extraction for example, and lists 50% unit toughness, 25% shock resistance, and 25% heat resistance, does it hurt your experimentation chances to have these much higher? Or should you shoot for as close as you can (i.e: 500 UT, 250 SR, and 250 HR)? I'm still very new and am trying to learn...

KoalaKnight (aka: Calix)

You might want to go to www.swgcraft.com and look for a basic guide to crafting.

You want your final result as close to 100% as possible. If a schematic says that 100% of the final result is dependent on "conductivity" (for example), then that says that your upper limit is determined soley by the conductivity of the resources you use. If you use a resource with 750 conductivty, the *best* you'll ever do is 75%.

So for architecture stuff (top-rated harvesters), when it says 25% HR, 25% SR, and 50% UT, it's telling you the key attributes that go into your final result. Essentially you take a resource, apply those "weights" to it's attributes, and then you'll know what the best it will do is.

The easiest way to calculate this is: ((2*UT)+HR+SR)/4) - this will give you a number from 0-1000. If you have 2 steels, for example, run that equation on both of them and the one with the highest number is the best for that job. And if that number is 930, for example, then the best result you can hope for using that material is 93%.

That's straightforward when you have a single resource in a single spot in a schematic. If you have a schematic with 200 units of steel and 300 units of metal, then you need to weight them according to how much of them you are using.

Ah, thanks! Kind of complex, but I'm sure it will help.

How high do you have to get these values to get BER 10 Mediums and BER 13 Heavy Harvesters?

900+ or higher?

Yes, Ackowa. Also, be sure to experiment all the way into the 90-95-ish percent range on the ore mining unit, light ore mining unit, harvesting mechnism, fluidic drilling pump (the components that have a BER rating). In the final combine for the deed, use lubricating oil if you can't find chem's with the stats in the 900 range you need (HR/SR/UT).

Actually don't even bother to use chems with 900+ unless you haveto, use anything that has NONE of the stats that effect the build (UT, HR, SR) such as liquid petchems or lub oil, if you don't have the stat it doesn't count against the build. Using lub oil with none of the specified stats will in fact give a better result than using 980 chems.

Can I ask how lube oil makes the difference instead of normal chems?

It doesn't have to be lube oil, any chem that has NONE of HR/SR/UT is better that any that has one or more, I mention lube oil because it is quite common and never has these stats. You can read any number of threads that explain why, but putin it's simplest form the stats are only counted in the calculation if they exist. So a 980 UTstat chem would give a 98% effect, or minus 2 pct, whereas a chem without UT would give no effect, or minus zero %. It sounds stupid, but it is true.