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Thread: PE the number one resource attribute?
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GCostanza
Thu Apr 22, 2004 3:02 pm
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I am a novice chef. I just purchased harvesters. I see that most of the popular food items require berries and fruit, with nutritional experimentation in pe66% and oq33%.
What runs through your minds when you look through SWGcraft? Are you looking for anything 900+ PE and 600+ oq? Talk me through how you guys gather resources. I am a noob crafter!
Start with Vasarian brandy, lets say:
would you rather have berries with 900 pe, 700 oq, 600 fl, 500 dr. or
950 pe, 900 oq, 13 fl, 200 dr
I have some harvesters getting berries on Valcyn which has 900+ stats on everything except PE, which is 450. After looking at the exp %'s for most food items, I'm beginning to think this is not such a hot item.
Please help me understand!
sciguyCO
Thu Apr 22, 2004 3:30 pm
#2
Well, here's the quick-and-easy breakdown for comparing two types of the same resource:
The 66%PE / 33% OQ determines the maximum experimentation percentage for the Nutrition category (which determines the buff size). There's also a relationship between the max percentage + assembly success = starting percentage (although I'm not sure about the exact numbers).
To figure out what resource is better for a particular category, run the stats through the given percentages, add them up, and whichever has the higher number is better.
Berries1: 900 * 0.66 + 700 * 0.33 = 825
Berries2: 950 * 0.66 + 900 * 0.33 = 924
The second one will give you better buff size. When using swgcraft's "find resources", you can punch in the experimental percentages next to the stats, and the search will do the calculation for you and sort the results with the higher rated ones first.
Now, because of the other stats of Berries2, while it will give higher buff, the duration (depends on 66% FL, 33% OQ) will be much lower. The quantity and filling will also suffer slightly.
The max nutrition using the first berries will be about 5 lower: every 100 rating = +10% to max percentage, the fruit in brandy contributes equally, so every 100 berry rating = +5% to max, buff range on brandy is +150-240,making a5% difference in nutrition = 4.5 difference in buff.
For me, having a +215 buff instead of a +220 buff is acceptable if it means that I can get the duration higher orhave the filling start at 50 or lower (so I don't have to spend a point to get it below 51). The maximum reachable percentage also may not be that big of a deal if you don't actually use up all the empty experimentation bubbles (spending 5 points in nutrition and 5 in flavor, for example), although the higher starting point is handy.
There's a lot of number crunching involved in SWG's crafting system. I'm a math geek, so I tend to run the numbers through hypothetical situations. Other people use the resources and make items in-game to get a feel for how the interaction works. Still others just scour swgcraft looking for 900+ resources in everything.
The berries you're harvesting (900+ in everything but PE) may not be the best conceivably available, but it's not bad. You should still be able to hit +200 buff with it, depending on the stats of the fruits you're using.
MuttonJedi
Thu Apr 22, 2004 6:48 pm
#3
I just made a post with what I think is the correct formula for the initial combine, if you like calculating things 
My approach is to rate everything by summing all four stats, well sometimes I do 25% DR + 35.5% PE + 22.75% OQ + 16.75% FL, but it doesn't really matter because I try to harvest anything that shows up with a good rating even if it rates a little lower than something I have. I then try different combinations to find what gives the best results - and it is often not simply the two highest rated resources.
Generally, I consider something with a 3000+ total to be good, but it depends somewhat on what I already have (I have greens with about 3500 total, so I might skip over greens that aren't at least 3200). So, yes, I would go after the berries you are getting, but if I didn't have some 900+ PE fruits to go with them, they may sit in storage for a while.
I recently bought some berries very similar to the 950 PE, 900 OQ that you mention, but only because they were 3cpu and I expect they will wind up going into some E-stims rather than any food.
Mutton
My approach is to rate everything by summing all four stats, well sometimes I do 25% DR + 35.5% PE + 22.75% OQ + 16.75% FL, but it doesn't really matter because I try to harvest anything that shows up with a good rating even if it rates a little lower than something I have. I then try different combinations to find what gives the best results - and it is often not simply the two highest rated resources.
Generally, I consider something with a 3000+ total to be good, but it depends somewhat on what I already have (I have greens with about 3500 total, so I might skip over greens that aren't at least 3200). So, yes, I would go after the berries you are getting, but if I didn't have some 900+ PE fruits to go with them, they may sit in storage for a while.
I recently bought some berries very similar to the 950 PE, 900 OQ that you mention, but only because they were 3cpu and I expect they will wind up going into some E-stims rather than any food.
Mutton
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