Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Complexity?
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Fight-
Tue May 11, 2004 9:11 am
#1
Could anyone explain how complexity works for me please? is a - skill tape "of more use" thana + tape?
What does complexity actually do? thanks
Malitevv
Tue May 11, 2004 9:24 am
#2
the complexity of a schematic determines which type of crafting tool is required to craft the item.
nobody knows for sure what a complexity skill tape does but I suspect it lowers the effective complexity of your schematics, and would therefore make it so that items which are just a little bit too complex to craft away from a station, might be craftable even while away from the station.
but that is only a guess. i don't have enough complexity tapes to know if it is true.
either way, if it works like the experimentation skill tapes do, you will need a total +10 in droid complexity before you will see any difference.
Fight-
Tue May 11, 2004 9:27 am
#3
im thinking.. wouldnt lowering your complexity number actually be a better thing?
I need a DE to do an experiment for me please 
Malitevv
Tue May 11, 2004 9:35 am
#5
I did say lower. 
This topic has come up on this thread many times. Most DE's here are going to tell you it is worthless. I suspect that the truth is what I said above.
Nobody knows.
_KernMist
Tue May 11, 2004 9:40 am
#6
The complexity of an item determines how long it takes to actually craft once you press the final button on the create item page of the crafting wizard. I *think* it's :
time to complete craft = (complexityx 2)
Or something like that. Whilst this may not be very handy for one off items, it is an absolute Godsend for manufactured goods. If you are crafting 1000 items and can drop the complexity by 3, thats saving you 6 factory seconds per item. Thats a saving of 1 hour and 40 minutes factory production time. It may not sound like a lot, but when you're running between three and five factories like most DE's do....it's handy.
Malitevv
Tue May 11, 2004 9:40 am
#7
Either way, even if it works the way I described, it still has no meaningful value, because all you have to do is put a crafting station in your droid and you immediately have access to all your schematics anyway.
this is probably why nobody has bothered wasting their clothing slots on complexity tapes. Even if it works, it is very likely not to be useful.
I eluded to it, but didn't explain in detail: most skill tapes give you an in game bonus (whatever that bonus is) of +N / 10, where N is the skill tape bonus. So you'd likely need +10 worth of complexity tapes to test anything.
I've got +3 complexity, and can tell you that +3 all by itself doesn't do anything. If I had another +7 I could test further.
Malitevv
Tue May 11, 2004 9:43 am
#8
_KernMist wrote:
The complexity of an item determines how long it takes to actually craft once you press the final button on the create item page of the crafting wizard. I *think* it's :
time to complete craft = (complexityx 2)
Or something like that. Whilst this may not be very handy for one off items, it is an absolute Godsend for manufactured goods. If you are crafting 1000 items and can drop the complexity by 3, thats saving you 6 factory seconds per item. Thats a saving of 1 hour and 40 minutes factory production time. It may not sound like a lot, but when you're running between three and five factories like most DE's do....it's handy.
that too, but are you sure that it is 1:1? for most skill tapes, the in-game bonus is 10:1 (i.e., 10 points of skill tape bonus for 1 point of in game effect). If it works like experimentation skill tapes, you would need +30 droid complexity to get a 3 point reduction (assuming that they really do reduce the complexity of the schematics).
_KernMist
Tue May 11, 2004 9:46 am
#9
I don't know what the relationship between complexity tapes and final build complexity is. I would also assume that you would need a +10 tape in order to reduce final build complexity by 1 point.
But assuming you can somehow get a final reduction of 3 points to your build complexity, you would see a good chunk of time off your factory runs
Fight-
Tue May 11, 2004 9:51 am
#10
the reason I ask is because this has bugged me for a little while heh. As silly as that sounds. And I recently.. few days or so agao looted a driod complexity -28 skill tape. What better tape to test +'s and -'s on?
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