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thanks..

one more question

when i do factory runs of armour do i use a wearables factory or an equiptment factory ?

also does the level of experimentation on the fiber panels / synth cloth affect the overall quality of the finished product ?

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WILDMAN_SOLO wrote:

thanks..

one more question

when i do factory runs of armour do i use a wearables factory or an equiptment factory ?

also does the level of experimentation on the fiber panels / synth cloth affect the overall quality of the finished product ?

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Wearables for the SynthCloth, RFP's, & Fiberplast panels.

Equipment for the Master Artisan componets that go into PSG's. (Energy Distributors & Power Conditioners).

Overall quality on the items not made by Master Armorsmiths do not factor into the armor's quality. As a matter of fact, you can't experiment on any of the Tailor Items. Master Artisan components can be experimented on, but it's pretty much proven to have no affect on the PSG's at all.

I wouldn't expect too much help from the people here. Most are elistist pigs that don't want anyone else to be able to craft armour, especially if you've only been one for 3 weeks. They'll flame you to death here for trying to make armour after only being one for such a short time in comparison to the l337 crew that live here (or be really nice to try and make me look bad). Either way, I will try and help, though my help is going to be merely a guess.

IF he is managing to reach 80% kinetic from less than 3 layers hes not doing too badly, however the ham cost alone from 2 layers that are fully experimented in special resistance IMHO is not worth it.

i.e. each layer will prolly have a ham cost of 15/15/15 or worse, so a final segement with this layer would already have 30/30/30+ cost, however if you can experiment on the HAM first you could get a layer of about 5/5/5+, with enough resistance to hit 80% in the end product with 3 layers, however rather than having 2 layers with a cost of 30/30/30 you would now have 3 layers at a cost of 15/15/15 and still hit the same end resistance. granted this is dependant on your current resources but the maths dosnt lie.

Ya Papos, definitely sounds like a time consuming process to test it. It was only a guess that thats how he was achieving it, I could not say for sure as I don't even have the ability to make any. I hear gloves are the way to test though.

Make some gloves with no layers in the segment. What is your base? Subtract that from 80. The remainder is what you need to have in total of base+specials in the kinetic layers. So if your unlayered comp is 50% then you need 30% base + kinetic in your layers. If you make layers that add up to more than 80 you are wasting points. I did this when I first started and sure, I made 80% kinetic comp but it was heavier than it needed to be.

Now that you have your target (30 in this example) you have to play with it. Make a layer and and see if you can get to 8% kin, 2% base and still lowering the ham. Remember while you will probably use 3 layers they don't all have to be the same.

Also (if you have resources) experiment, experiment, expleriment. Even in a research city and with foods I still may make 10-20 layer schems before I get a keeper.

Yep, Gloves are your best friend as they only take 1 armour segment you dont need to do any factory runs, although creating lots sets of layers + the segement can be quite tedious, i also finds that when you start using new resources you have to do it all over agian, although if you write down the OQ/SR and the results at the end of each point you can get a feel for what resources will give you so in the long run you can have a better idea how to achive the desired results