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Message Edited by Arcus on 03-09-2004 06:09 AM

Message Edited by Arcus on 03-11-2004 06:41 AM

Very nice post, congratulations.

I like the term 'gated'.I used to speak from natural resource stat caps up till now.

Yes very nice post. I only just recently realised thatnamed resources have caps on their range for certain stats. I can't say how dissapointed I was when I realized my Kiirium was never going to get to even 100 for mall .

Usefull info for starting armorsmiths to know. That way they can realize that Mall 339, OQ 965, Shock 797, UT 680 Colat Iron is actually about as good as it gets . Or that there's no point in waiting for Kiirium that doesn't have abysmal mall. Or that 600ish/950ish/400ish is the best they can hope for in Beyrllius.

Makes ya realize there's no point in holding out for signifigantly better resources when mining. If a named resources spawns that even slightly better then your existing you might as well mine the hell out of it cause small incremental increases are the best you can hope for.

Kinda disheartening ain't it .

Please add it to the guide. If you add the resource numbers, you may want to edit them as we get more data.

-Wicca

AWESOME POST!!! Now I just feel like an idiot for passing on some named resources..... oh well. Just a game right?

Ebim

Awesome Post!

Perhaps its important to further break down the non-named resources....

I.e. Katrium intrusive ore is the only intrusive ore that has its cap at 1000 for Shock Resistance (I think Ionite caps at 950 SR)

Phrik Aluminum is the only aluminum that can achieve 900 Shock resistance (Link Steel caps at 850? SR)

Bal'ta'ran Amorphous Gemstone is the only Amorphous gemstone that can achieve the 1000 Shock resistance

Tertian Siliclastic ore is the only Siliclastic ore that can achieve575 Shock resist.

Zinsiam Carbonate ore is the only Carbonate that can achieve 700 Shock resist

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Riftmeister wrote:
They are scaling resources in Publish 7 right? Like my Beyrillius with 440 SR (near max) will work just as well as my 850 OQ Aluminum?

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Uhh... thats kind of apples to oranges, unless I am misunderstanding your question.

To get the resource "effectiveness rating" for your 440 SR copper, you would add the OQ and divide that by 2. Then use the result as a percentage of the "gated max" which if you look at the chart above seems to be 737.5 (but I can verify that I have a beyrillius copper with Shock Resistance 482, so I put the "gate" at 500 for SR or the "gated max at 1500/2 = 750 )

So for instance on Starsider, I have a beyrillius copper that is 482 SR and 891 OQ. (Add numbers)/2 you get 686.5Take that as a percentage of the 750 max, and that copper is 91.53% of the maximum for that resource.

Then you take another function (if your not snoozing by now) and "weight" how much beyrillius copper is figured in to your final assembly (it counts as 12.5% of a piece of composite) and you can judge which resources you can "cut corners with"

In summary:

Solid Petro Fuel and Intrusive ore are the most important minerals in Composite armor... they have NO gate, and account for exactly 50% of the effectiveness value in the final assembly of composite armor.