Shipwright Archive

Last night I made some Spacebombs that should have been good, but did not turn out that way. I used an OQ 969 steel and an OQ 927 PE 68 High Grade Polymetric. Now, I know the PE on the high-grade is awful, but the high OQs should balance it out.

I thought the experimentation cap should work out to this:

(2000/2500 * 969 + 500/2500 * (927+68)/2)/2500 = 874.7 I was expecting to cap out at 87%.

Instead, I capped out at 51%. Should I expect to cap out at 51% with these materials, or is this a classic example of the bug where a resource missing a required stat gets calculated incorrectly?

The problem is that the crafting does not count the stats the way you think it does.

If the relevant stats are 50% OQ and 50% PE, it gets an weighted average of the OQ and of the PE and then appplies the 50%. All the PE from the final number comes from the radioactive, and it's 50% of the final values:

((2000/2500 * 969 + 500/2500 * 927) + (500/500 * 68)) / 2 = 514.3

The PE in the radioactive is far more important than the OQ.

That makes so much sense, thank you. Now, if only a high PE High Grade Polymetric would spawn on Valcyn... I hate using my good stuff on missiles.

I've been experiencing a bug with the crafting where sometimes I'll be able to max out at around 50% with top quality materials, and sometimes it will go to the full 9X%. Same materials, same schematic, same success message, it just doesn't work as expected some times...

J'Asper