probag Bear
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.07.18 00:07:00 -
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I gather from the blog that material requirements for T2 items are still being increased by 1.5*1/0.9? I thought that number was changed?
The problem:
Quote:T2 items have been increased by 50% to balance this out as it means weGÇÖre no longer adding +50% materials due to negative ME
This justification from the dev blog is false if T2 material requirements are in fact increased by 1.5*1/0.9, rather than just 1.5.
To summarize:
A 1.5x T2 multiplier on top of the 1/0.9x modifier to all blueprints means that decryptor-less invention will take up 9% more raw materials. More significantly, it means that Symmetry, the most popular decryptor by far, results in a 15% increase in raw materials.
A 1.375x additional T2 multiplier (which is almost 1.5*(1/0.9); makes perfect sense since that's where the problem lies) means that decryptor-less invention will take up the same amount of raw materials as now, and invention using the most popular decryptor only needs 6% more raw materials. 6% is quite a bit lower than 15%.
And to copy-paste:
Quote:While 1.5 is an awfully nice and round number, I feel it is too large in this context.
I can understand dismissing the fact, which others have mentioned, that this raises material requirements of decryptor-less invention by ~9%, and that a better multiplier for that would be 37.5%. 9% is a small price to pay for such a round number. But on top of that, most T2 items are optimally invented with decryptors. And looking only at the measly +1 ME bonus of Symmetry, easily the most popular decryptor, you end up with ~15% extra material requirements post-Crius. ~23% for Accelerant and Parity, and obviously even worse for Process.
Yes a 1.5 multiplier means that you get almost no change at -6 ME (Augmentation; currently the lowest). But I don't think that justifies raising prices of all other T2 items across the board.
Quote:With a 1.5x factor, material requirements modifiers are {0.98,1.03,1.09,1.15,1.23,1.32} (spanning the invention ME range, with Augmentation 0.98, decryptor-less at 1.09, and such). A 1.375x factor turns that to {0.9,0.95,1.00,1.06,1.13,1.21}. Which is still "bad", sure, just a different flavor of it. |