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Thread: Question on sub components in buff packs.
The Adv Chemical Release Duration Mechanisms (ACRDM's) as well as the Adv Solid Delivery Shells (ASDS's) only add Power.
The Adv Biological Effect Controllers (ABEC's) add Charges and Power. The general consensus is to experiment the ABECs to full charges because they are the only component that can affect that. With a good ABEC you can take a 20 charge pack to 28-30 charges and only lose 10-20 points of buff strength.
Power: Comes from the Solid Delivery Shell and Chem Release Duration Mech. These add power in a 1:1 ratio. I.e. If you make a buff pack with an ASDS with a power of 70 and a pack with a SDS power 20, than the one made with the ASDS will be 50 points more powerfull. Same with ACRDMs and CRDMs. The base power rating will be based off of the Avian Meat and Reactive Gas OQ/PE ratings.
Charges: Come from the Bio Effect Controllers. Similarly to above, your Buff pack will be increased in the number of charges depending on how many charges your BEC has. Power from BECs is negligable. The base charge rating will be based off of the Avian Meat and Reactive Gas OQ/PE ratings.
Duration: Is primarily an effect based on the Decay Resistance rating of your Avian Meat and Reactive Gas. Subcomponents really dont effect it noticably.
Also, the duration comes mainly from the Decay Resistance of the avian/reactive you are using.
Good luck.
Some numbers to shoot for on the subcomponents are:
ABEC: 14-15 power - 21 charges.
ACRM: 60 power
SDS: 70 power
If you can reach at least these marks or higher you will have a good chance to hit high power/charges packs every time. Meeting these numbers will obviously depend on what resources you have on your server. Tarquinas is notorious for having low end Doc resource spawns. We've only had a few decent Doc resources spawns since launch.
The other posters are right tho. The Avian and Reactive are the most important resources to hunt for. If you can track down avian with at least 1500 avg OQ/PE you should be able to make 800+ packs. The only good avian we have seen is 1850 avg. But that was 5 months ago and at that time not many were collecting it. I offer 300cpu on the Trade Forums and get NO takers. Puts my 240k price tag for a set of 920+ power buffs in perspective. 
Ok, this helps me a lot.
Based on this information, If I want buffs for power rather than duration or charges then Chemical release Duration and Solid Delivery components are what I should be concerned with.
Avian Meat and Reactive Gas OQ/PE ratings will be the determining factor in making good buffs.
If you have the VERY BEST advanced subcomponents, the most improvement in power you will see is about 120 power.
However, the difference between good Avian Meat and Gas and poor avian meat and gas acn be as much as 400 power.
The meat and gas are the key things you need to keep an eye on.