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Thread: Droid Motive Systems and ADV Droid Motive Systems (Effectiveness or Durability?)
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IDLAB
Mon Jul 05, 2004 9:39 pm
#1
I've been experimenting on droid motive systems and ADV Droid Motive Systems for high level effectiveness simply because I've convinced myself that increasing the actual mechanism quality is the way to go. I've hit 99 percent effectiveness quite a few times.
However, I'm looking for instances or applications of Droid Motive Systems that do not have very high quality and instead have higher experimentation rates for durability. I want to know the difference... if any at all. Do higher quality experimentally effective droid motive systems help a droid navigate better than higherlevel experimental durablity ones?
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Kellisanth
Mon Jul 05, 2004 9:43 pm
#2
I have yet to see any effective changes in speed myself...
Personally, I don't think so. /shrug
TheRealTK421
Mon Jul 05, 2004 9:46 pm
#3
These shouldn't have a practical effect on the droid's speed.
I see the Quality as having an effect, however, on the likeliehood of a critical failure when the part is used later on.
If you need 5 parts of a build, and 4 have low negative numbered Quality ratings, I believe you can see a higher chance of a lower success rate on the Assembly roll of what you're building.......or a critical.
Not sure if that makes sense, but basically from what I can tell the Quality of subcomponents really comes into play later when they are used in crafting...whatever they go into...
/bow
Respectfully,
I see the Quality as having an effect, however, on the likeliehood of a critical failure when the part is used later on.
If you need 5 parts of a build, and 4 have low negative numbered Quality ratings, I believe you can see a higher chance of a lower success rate on the Assembly roll of what you're building.......or a critical.
Not sure if that makes sense, but basically from what I can tell the Quality of subcomponents really comes into play later when they are used in crafting...whatever they go into...
/bow
Respectfully,
Drashk
Mon Jul 05, 2004 9:50 pm
#4
IDLAB wrote:
I've been experimenting on droid motive systems and ADV Droid Motive Systems for high level effectiveness simply because I've convinced myself that increasing the actual mechanism quality is the way to go. I've hit 99 percent effectiveness quite a few times.
However, I'm looking for instances or applications of Droid Motive Systems that do not have very high quality and instead have higher experimentation rates for durability. I want to know the difference... if any at all. Do higher quality experimentally effective droid motive systems help a droid navigate better than higherlevel experimental durablity ones?
None of the droid subcomponents appear to have any effect on a droid, reguardless of what is experimented. Only droid modules and the end droid deed are effected by experimentation. Take a look at an old post that I made months back, titled Mechanism Quality Experiment (Night of 200 LEs). The testing that I did looks to show that experimentation of subcomponents could be part of why there is a large number of crafting failures for our profession, since experimentation increases the Complexity rating of each part.
Buzz1096
Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:48 am
#5
Personally, I just try to get the mechanism quality rating into the positive range to help on assembly rolls like TK said. There was a time when I was absolutely convinced that maxing the quality made a better droid, but now I see that my droids are just as good with lower 'quality' subcomponents as my older ones.
Now I just concentrate on the module items where quality does matter. When you get those maxed or near maxed you can start to see how fantastic a droid stim D you can make. Then, if you get really bored, go for making those 5 charge batteries.
Just get decent schematics together of those things like motive systems, sensor packages, manipulator arms and so on - mass produce them by the crate with mediocre materials and you'll never know the difference.
Buzz1096
Tue Jul 06, 2004 5:03 am
#6
Hey Drashk,
That was excellent work on the analysis. I had not seen that before. There is one question that I had after reading it and that is, why did you not take into account the amazing successes and only the great successes? As far as I can tell from your data, the highly experimented set seemed to have a little higher amazing success rate, even though it did not bump the number of great & amazing successes higher than the non-experimented set.
Does it come down to the fact that MDEs dont really need amazing successes on final droid assembly? just 2 great ones? That makes me sad.
As pointless as it may be, that information could be useful to the non-master DE (if there is such a thing) selling droids, who might like and/or need a greater rate of amazing successes.
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