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Thread: Power vs. Charges in ABECs for buffs
Here's a useful question i've always wanted answered, maybe you can answer it for me Angent001. For each point in charges increased on the BEC, how many charges does this count for in the buff packs? For instance my recent packs are made with: ABEC: 17/18 (10/9 without experimentation), ACDS: 60 and ASDS: 72. I use a 837 PE/923 OQ avian meat and a 920 OQ reactive gase and my packs come to 874 power 26 charges. Now, during my experiments i created a ABEC that had no experimentation to effectivess, but power, which came out to about 10/22 for them. The final packs were about 840/30 or so. My question is, with each level of experimenation for charges on the ABEC's, how many charges are added to the final pack?
Also something else confused me. Is there a base amount of charges that buff packs start from and the ABEC's just adds to that number? Because in another one of my test i did the reverse of the previous, i experimented only on effectivness and got a 22/9 for the ABEC's. When i went to craft the packs, the initual charges started at 20. What I always believed was whatever the ABEC's charges is, that is how many charges the buff pack will start with before experimenting it up further, but my test disproved this by my pack having a base of 20 charges with the ABEC having only a 9 for chragers. Is there a set base?
Dronayus wrote:Here's a useful question i've always wanted answered, maybe you can answer it for me Angent001. For each point in charges increased on the BEC, how many charges does this count for in the buff packs? For instance my recent packs are made with: ABEC: 17/18 (10/9 without experimentation), ACDS: 60 and ASDS: 72. I use a 837 PE/923 OQ avian meat and a 920 OQ reactive gase and my packs come to 874 power 26 charges. Now, during my experiments i created a ABEC that had no experimentation to effectivess, but power, which came out to about 10/22 for them. The final packs were about 840/30 or so. My question is, with each level of experimenation for charges on the ABEC's, how many charges are added to the final pack?
Also something else confused me. Is there a base amount of charges that buff packs start from and the ABEC's just adds to that number? Because in another one of my test i did the reverse of the previous, i experimented only on effectivness and got a 22/9 for the ABEC's. When i went to craft the packs, the initual charges started at 20. What I always believed was whatever the ABEC's charges is, that is how many charges the buff pack will start with before experimenting it up further, but my test disproved this by my pack having a base of 20 charges with the ABEC having only a 9 for chragers. Is there a set base?
You answered your own question in the first paragraph... all subcomponents are 1:1 ratio with the final result. Your 18C ABEC gave you 26C on the buff, the 22C ABEC gave you 30C... 1:1 result. I've also tested this myself with both charges and power and have yet to find any instance where a 1:1 ratio was not the case. When experimenting, you are only experimenting on the final resources thrown into the creation screen.
As for your second paragraph... I hadn't tested the low end of charges in the past, looks like that's something I'll have to do. Try crafting a buff pack with a regular BEC and see if you still get 20 charges, that should tell you right off hand if there is a minimum. You could also try to grab some crappy resources on the bazaar and make a new ABEC with lower charges than they one you used here. Worth taking a look at, perhaps I will myself when I get the chance.
So my question to other docs is, do you yourselves and the people who buy your buff packs prefer to have the additional charges or do they want a little extra power? Which would sell better, a 820 power/20 charges pack or a 800 power/30 charges pack? I have a few stacks of old meat and I want to make some master level packs next but I'm having trouble deciding wether I should go for power, charges, or balance in my next batch of ABECs.
Hi,
Well to the doc buffing, the additional charges is gold. The power affected in the final pack is like 1:1 from the ABECs so I would prefer a 800/30 to a 810/20 any day! in the buff itself the difference is only about 27 pts, and what is that gonna help - maybe you can take an extra headbud!
But the charges are for me far more valuable!