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I had my master shipwright friend make me one of the new Elite Rail Guns from some asteroid resources i gathered for him. I don't really understand what the point is.. its max dmg was about equal to a looted level 10 gun.. but yet has a mass 5x of the lvl 10 gun. Is there something wrong with the crafting? Does the weapon get some extra dmg multiplier? Just was wondering if these "elite" weapons/components were worth crafting.. I don't want to waste time mining if not.

Does anyone have any stats for other elite crafted items.. shields, engines, etc.

Thanks for any input.

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Aeniepo wrote:
I had my master shipwright friend make me one of the new Elite Rail Guns from some asteroid resources i gathered for him. I don't really understand what the point is.. its max dmg was about equal to a looted level 10 gun.. but yet has a mass 5x of the lvl 10 gun. Is there something wrong with the crafting? Does the weapon get some extra dmg multiplier? Just was wondering if these "elite" weapons/components were worth crafting.. I don't want to waste time mining if not.

Does anyone have any stats for other elite crafted items.. shields, engines, etc.

Thanks for any input.

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thanks for the inquiry.

At the moment everything that is 'elite' for the POB ships and the Y-8 with only a couple exceptions are comming in very close to the already craftable MarkV (aka experimental, aka level 9).Not only is the mass insane to guarantee it wont fit on a smaller ship, but it requires a large amount of time harvesting asteroid resources. I spent a couple hours getting the resources togeather to make a elite engine and its stats were the same or only marginally higher than a markV experimented in the exact same way.

now the reactor did come out with 30k power and the shield (someone else posted the stats) but i remember it came out 3300 front/back but I think the recharge was a bit low still. Other than that, they do need some work .

There is nothing about these new asteroid resource schematics that produce results in a way to justify the painstaking hours of mining asteroids. Not to mention, if you were a crafter, how much would you charge for 2 hours of harvesting asteroids plus the other good resources that have to go into these items? If a level 9 is running 50-150k for regular resources that can be harvested while the shipwright is off doing something else.. how much would 2 hours out of your time be worth? I am guessing quite a bit. Possibly 5x or even 10x the cost.

Message Edited by EEMAN on 05-11-2005 01:53 PM

The main difference is that *elite* components have relatively simple ressource attributes: steel, alluminium + 2 types of asteroids. Asteroids have a perfect overall quality and finding good steel and alluminium is not that hard. So overall the finished product is easier to make. Of course if you have a stack of some previous good ressources that are about the same then there's not much of a point of making those.

Make them fast. 0.250 speed for the win.