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Hello, dear Doc colleagues.

I have here a posting for those of you who like to use only the best of the best resources.
As you will know your resources all have different quality modifiers, but sometimes it is hard to say which resource will give the better experimentation results. I have developed a simple formula that can give you a quality rating of your material. It will give you a number between 0 and 10 with decimals, which you can use for comparing two different resources. I sincerely hope that those calculations are exact, at least I am sure they will provide you good and useful info.

I use this formula in a short Basic Program for my Sharp PC-1403H (a basic programmable calculator) to have it always quickly available when I am surveying. It is also easy to apply it to an Excel Sheet (I did it, but the Sharp is more comfortable)

First an example.

Say we have two kinds of berries. We want to craft the best power health wound medpacks. The best power you will get when you experiment. Your experiment points are in a relation to the resources attributes (and also the components..) Overall Quality (66% atm) and Potential Energy (33%)

Berry Hisuv has OQ of 567 and PE of 988 7.07
Berry Disowaieesone has OQ of 723 and a PE of 395 6.14

It is not easy to say from the first look, which of those two will provide you more experimentation points. They will be somewhere near each other, that is obvious, but if you are out in the wild with your survey tool in your hand, you might want to be sureabout where to get the best out of your harvesters.

So here is the formula:

Eval = (66.7*OQ/999 + 33.3*PE/999)/10

If we calculate our little example, we will find out that Hisuv, even though it has the lower overall quality, is the winner. It gets 7.07 points of 10, while Diso... just gets a 6.14

Moreover, if you apply this formula a second time you can simulate something like your crafting station. You first calculate the value of your organic, then the one of your inorganic component. You sum them and divide the result by 2. The result you will get will help you get an idea, how many experimentation points you will receive. ( usually you must round UP, so a 6.14 should provide you 7 points) But remember that the shell/delivery...components might also influence the result quite a bit!

Useful or not, I like to have speaking numbers, try it, if you like to!

Squirghal of Gorath