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Thread: Pyollian Cake Anyone done any tests with it?
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bob535
Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:40 pm
#1
Anyone know if it helps reduce criticals or increases exp size or what?
sciguyCO
Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:56 pm
#2
All it does is shift the random assembly results towards better success types (and obviously away from crit fails). Bespin Port does the same thing with experimentation: it doesn't give more experimentation points or give you a bigger experimental percentage increase for a "great success".
bob535
Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:00 pm
#3
That was a kind of flakey answer, I know that +experimentation food shifts the experimentation rolls more towards amazing ( end result is you get more greats and amazings ) but what does the +assembly do? help to prevent failed experimentation? help to prevent critical failures? Increase greats and amazings? absolutley nothing?
sciguyCO
Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:13 pm
#4
Ah, guess I left a part out.
The "assembly" referred to is the initial combine right after selecting resources. A better success on that gives you a better starting point for experimentation.The initial percentages appear to scale depending on the maximum potential with those resources: a "great success" on initial assemblystarts all categories around 20-25% of that categories maximum percentage with those resources. I can't remember where the other success types land, though.
So a better assembly roll will only help with that first step. It does this the same way that +experimentation foods helps during the experimentation step. The only real benefit I see with this is when you have a lot of resources (architect items) or using rare/expensive components (krayt tissues, BE additives, etc) that you don't want to lose to a crit fail. Once you get around 80 or 90 assembly, if you don't get a crit fail you're almost always going to get a good or great. Well, there might be more variation with items with really high complexity.
bob535
Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:18 pm
#5
and the scaleability is going to be more important after the next patch, interesting
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