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I was making stimpacks and wound kits today and something had me confused. For the inorganic ingredient I was originally using an aluminum with 964 Overall Quality and 0 Potential Energy and getting a base Experimental Effectiveness of 26% before any experimenting. Then I found a petrochemical fuel with 987 Overall Quality and 546 Potential Energy and thought it would be even better. I made one and discovered that I was only getting a 23% base. Both of these are using the same organic ingredient and looking at a great success and I have made more than one so it was not a fluke. Why is the petrochemical fuel not producing better than the aluminum?

you were using fuel in which components ?
Overall, I assume fuel petrol has less unit toughness than the alluminium. I use organic parts with good quality and potential energy while for the inorganic it's better quality and toughness.

I never saw Unit Toughness listed on the Experimental Effectiveness requirements for anything. It says Overall Quality 66% and Potential Energy 33%.

Missing ingrediant stats may be being treated as nulls, not zeros.

As in, they don't count at all, in any way.

I dunno. I'll add it to the list.

-T

I saw a report on these forums that it was only reading the PE from the organic components and only reading UT from the inorganic components. If your petro had a lower UT than your aluminum, perhaps that explains the difference.

Of course, that would be a bug if the UT is affecting the effectiveness rating since that is not part of the equation...

The only other thing I can think of is that Malleability is affecting the initial combine and not just chances of success on experimentation. What are the UT and Malleability of the two inorganics you were using?