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When gathering items for a BE to make you additives, gather high OQ wood for the 35 (BSN) units of flora or 55 units (INN) of flora required. the default stats on these for PE and Flave are 1000, helping you get that much closer to a great additive.

I was under the impression that the PE/FL was simply negated, not counted as 1000, in schematics that have at least one other resource with PE and FL. For example, in making a light nutrient tissue, if you use:

Wood - OQ 950 (35)
Meat - OQ 900, PE 850, FL 800 (15)

it would count as

[950(70%)+900(30%)] + 850(100%) + 800(100%)

and not what you suggest, which would be

[950(70%)+900(30%)] + [1000(70%)+850(30%)] + [1000(70%)+800(30%)]

The former is what I have experienced in both BE and Chef. When no resources in the schematics contain PE/FL, then they are set to 1 - but this bug of course doesn't come up in BE tissues intended for chefs, since meat is always a component.

Edited because Numbers Are Hard.

Message Edited by CJadefire on 06-03-2004 08:27 PM

The PE and FL for the wood is considered null, not 0 and not 1000. In that case only the PE/FL from the flora and the meat is considered for that average. So if you have high PE/FL meat and low PE/FL flora, then using wood helps. Likewise if you have high PE/FL flora but low OQ flora, wood would help.

The case were using wood hurts is when you have high PE/FL flora but low PE/FL meat. In that case the meat drags down the PE/FL of the flora since the wood is not considered. Using flora instead of wood means there is more high PE/FL flora and brings that average up against the meat.

The true power of high OQ wood is that it is much easier to find than high PE/FL/OQ flora. When cut with the flora it makes that hard to get flora last longer without bringing down the addtive's power. It is really more of an economical boost than a power boost.

Yep, dat's what I said.

I might be wrong, but the stats that matter for BE addictives are FL/PE/OQ, all at 33%.

I can't assure that it works the same way for BE tissues, but when making meds, if you use an organic with PE and OQ and an inorganic with only OQ on schematics that are 66% OQ and 33% PE, the PE of the organic will count double. Meaning that, as the inorganic doesn't have PE, the PE of the organic will matter twice as much. So, I would think that using high OQ wood with other resources with high PE and FL would yield a better result than using high OQ but lower PE and FL instead of the wood.

But again, I should prolly ask this on the BE forums instead.

Ok did a little search and it is explained better here :

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=bio-engineer&message.id=71314