After a lot of failure and tragedy of my own passing, I finally had a few events that made me renew my commitment to mining. It seems that blausarium has a liking for me, and I found a big grade XI lode of it worth 32 PED that made VinzZ a little jealous (we had both been walking over it all afternoon). After hitting that, a few big oil hits and a source of lyst, I headed back to town for some componenting and skilling. That's when I came across a conceptual problem.
Working on the basic filter BP, the formula is simple. 1 lyst ingot (3 pec) + 1 refined oil (2 pec) = some # of filters at 1 pec apiece. success means 5 or 6 filters, with 6 filters providing one pec of profit. YEAH!!! occasionally you get a pec of residue or so, but the process works real simple. Or does it?
I dumped 100 lyst ingots with 100 refined oil, and went to work. It was 5 ped of material, so if i could make over 500 filters it would be skilling for profit! (not likely) Here's the wierd part. halfway through my inventory, i had a little victory -- a baby global (a regional?) -- when my 5 pec worth of inputs provided 205 pec worth of results!!! A great bunch of value-added, but i only made 21 filters -- the other 184 was in metal residue. Does this make sense? I put in 3 pec of lyst -- Entropia's version of lead -- and it dumped out 184 pec worth of scrap metal. The formula doesn't seems to fit. Residue has less value, but more value than the ingot of lyst i put into it. Hmmm...
I think I want to develop a residue-making machine. something where i can dump in dung and fruit and all that crap, and it'll dump out priceless kilos of residue! I'll corner the residue market! Everyone will depend on me for their useless residue!!! I'll rule...very little. Sorry.
Monday, August 07, 2006
"Twist"ed logic
Posted by James Pressler at 3:58 am
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Sure it is weird, those residues... I've craft basic filters myself. But after a while I was thinking that I was using slot-machines. Sure MA should do some work here... I don't like the idea of playing Casino :(
Cheers!
About that residue, Twist. Residue can be used to boost a product I heard.
E.g. you make Basic Filters and got nothing but 10 residue. Place the residue inside the window together with the Oil and Lyst. The machine accepts that and I heard (from ex-member Coco) it will give a boost. I don't know if this really true, but the machine accepts the residue so I think it will do SOMEthing. not?
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