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You know how when you are crafting an item it says something like

Chages

10% conductivity

22% flavor

68% quality

That tells you how important each one of those qualities of the supplies is when determining how good the item is going to be (for the charges of the item or whatever the bold part is). So here is a formula for figuring out which material is going to be the best.

Lets say you have 2 minerals

Mineral 1

967 conductivity

704 flavor

182 quality

Mineral 2

422 conductivity

318 flavor

899 quality

Ok, so quick mineral should you use to get the most charges(or any other stat) on the item. Do

( Percentage of importance / 100 ) * (the stat on the mineral) for each one and then add those 3 up. The higher number is the better mineral.

Example

Mineral 1

( 0.10 * 967 ) + ( 0.22 * 704 ) + ( 0.68 * 182 ) =375.34

Mineral 2

( 0.10 * 422 ) + ( 0.22 * 318 ) + ( 0.68 * 899 ) = 723.48

So by this we find out that Mineral 2 is ALOT better than mineral 1.

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If any of you mathematicians find anything wrong please tell me but I think its perfect. And please tell me if you think it helped you because it took me a while to write. Enjoy

Raius Apiryv, Friendly Medic of Lowca =)

Divide the final number by the total number of ingredients (in this case 3) and that's what we mathematicians call a weighted average. You hit it on the nose.

http://www.swgcenter.com/resource_tree/resources.asp

Very glad soemone brought this up. We should have a search field available within the next week that let's you specify the type of resource you are looking for and the percentages of the fields of importnace. The script will then do all the math for you and list of the resources of choice from best to worse.

WOW! You rock! That will help a lot. Sometimes the resources are so different that it's hard to tell. Thank you!

Nice job man, Glad to see someones helping to make it a little easier to try and craft some quality stuff.

I don't know about other people, but to me that was very obvious.

'Course, I did advanced math, calculus in college, and I work in statistics. So.

Yeah, dividing by the number of resources would give you a weighted average, but it doesn't mean much in this situation. Skip that step and the numbers signify the same thing and help you just as much.

Ok, about that site DarthEditor posted. Well, it seems to me that it is from beta because I don't see any of the resources I can find in the game on there. I see Ofimoa, but I can survey it. I am Surveying IV and Im not sure what I have to do to be able to get Ofimoa where I can survey it. Is there something I must do to be able to survey more resources or is the site from beta?

Could someone repost this in noobese real quick please? I've reread and reread but I still can't get it. Where exactly can these, 'conductivity, flavor, quality' figures for each item be located? I look at teh crafting screen in the GCT andI see the resourse attributes on the left. ANd some on the right for the item. But they're not lined up or add up to 100%. I'm confused...

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