Test Discussion PC Test: R&D Gear System

Is it intended for each piece to require the same amount of materials? If so the chest require too many Fused Metalloid Scraps (15 vs 4). Also at 4 Fused Metalloid Scraps and get 2 Metalloid Scraps from each common piece, 3 pieces each run, you are looking at 4 weeks for 1 piece of gear instead of 6.

The mark cost also does not require more than 4 weeks. I am not quite sure what the intention is here and what is a bug. I can't test actual Metalloid Scraps without being able to salvage though.

Edit: You can buy the Fused Metalloid Scraps plan after you have collected it.

Edit 2: No bugs while crafting. You get an unattuned piece and that turns into the appropriate gear. You get the style and the recipe works.

Edit 3: You need 9 Matter Enhancers per recipe (5 marks each, 45 marks total). Each plan for the gear costs 75% of the vendor cost so chest & legs - 45, back - 30 and waist - 35.

Fused Metalloid Scraps cost 100 Metalloid Scraps and nothing else. The plan costs 10 marks.

You need 4 Fused Metalloid Scraps for each piece of gear except the chest which needs 15.

Overall the system is pretty fast. Too fast in my opinion based on us getting the ability to get more than 2 Metalloid Scraps per common (green) piece and being able to get 3 pieces per content run. The requirements should be upped by at least 50% when you consider the possibility of uncommon and rare salvage rates.

Actually you can buy all of the plans again if you have collected them. You shouldn't be able to do that.

Like Superskull said, please block the plans when you already collected them, similar to legends. With no confirmation window, a missclick is too prone to happen.

Yeah, the prices are wonky, but I suspect these aren't the final prices. The matter enhancer cost should vary by pieces, as should the fused scrap cost. The crafting process itself seems to work fine, though. Creates an unattuned item level 130 gear piece of the appropriate style.

Testing a fix for that right now.

Good job, devs. Good job.

I have nothing more to add to the feedback at this time other than that. Anything I've found has already been reported. So just good job. This is exactly the kind of thing I've been craving for the longest time.

Oh, interesting. So, the differentiator is just the Matter Enhancers needed? Or are the plan costs supposed to vary, as well?

Plan costs and matter enhancers vary.

When will we see the actual initial intended prices go live on the test server? I have more to say about the system but I want to make sure my feedback is relevant.

Just to clarify the cost:
When attempting to create a rare chest:
Plan = 45 MoV
Mat. Enhancers (9 pcs at 5 MoV) total of 45 MoV
Total MoV cost is 90

The legs will cost a total of 80 MoV

The waist
plan = 35 Mov
M.E. - 7 - 35
total cost is 70 Mov

The back
plan - 30 MoV
M.E. - 30
Total cost is 60Mov.
That is a lot of MoV for one piece. I propose an exchange rate to make it easier. If a player has already purchased the chest piece vendor gear and would like to create the rare gear piece, he can salvage the vendor gear and receive the appropriate number of Material Enhancers to create the piece.

Each piece requires 4 pieces of Fused materials = 400 scrap materials. If a player wants to create all 4 pieces it will be a total of 1600 scrap materials.

I didn't have any issues with crafting the gear. It was all pretty straight forward. The questions I had were answered already. It was a lot less complicated doing it, than when reading over the instructions lol.

One thing, is there a way we can have some kind of mission to find the vendor? I had no idea where in the Tech Wing to find him. He's in the Hanger, apparently. That would be my only request/complaint.

Ok after looking at your numbers i wanted to clarify something.
The Vender gear for the chest is 60 MOV. So if you wanted to buy 2 pieces it would cost you 120 MOV total.
However if you did not bother to buy them you could just craft two of the Rare chest for only 15 MOV more. 90 for the first than 45 for the second for a total of 135. Now this may not be the popular thing to say but imo I feel like people will forgo the vender gear and rely on Drops or just crafting. IMO the crafting cost should be a bit higher. Not double the cost but higher. again just my thoughts on it.

Considering they are a step above the vendor gear, I'd say those mark prices are pretty cheap.

The scraps will be more time limiting than the marks. Recall, you'll need a full set of scraps for each piece. In the time it takes to gather those, you'll have accumulated a bunch of marks.

I disagree with everyone regarding the costs. I think they're perfect. Not too expensive, not too cheap. Just right. Especially when you consider the fact that only 2 instances in the relevancy window will drop gear which can be converted in this episode, with one locking out weekly and the other having 0 Purple drops in it to salvage.

Considering that you can get up to about 200 Marks for free per week without spending a single replay, guaranteed, not taking into consideration bonus marks, prom boxes or any other non-standard mark drop, I think the Marks cost is about perfect, too.

Remember that this system is supposed to reward and benefit those who actually want to play all the content in a relevancy window, but can't luck out on the RNG system, not benefit those who want to do very little to get the best reward. Likewise, if it's too complicated and too demanding, then you can never get ahead of the curve or keep up with it and therefore you're back in the same position you were in before the system was introduced.

In other words: get the fixes in and leave it.