seawe wrote:I'm currently a focused forager and wonder what the differense between say aggressive speed and agressive rate is? Does rate relate to quality and speed quantity or is it the other way around.
This is confusing me, especially when it comes to missions.
Neither speed nor rate are related to quality works, that's a third thing. Here is how it all works:
When you are extracting, you can see the bar in the top left (below Hp etc.) fill up, as your character performs the extracting action. The bar filling up once is one "cycle". At the end of each cycle, two things happen:
- the amount of materials you have extracted jumps a bit (e.g. from 0.3 to 0.5)
- the quality of the material you have extracted rises (e.g. from 13 to 21)
The three things you can change in an extraction action are the speed, the rate and the quality.
- Speed determines the time it takes to complete one cycle, i.e. how long it takes for the bar to fill up.
- Rate determines how much the amount of materials increases by, at the end of each cycle.
- Quality determines what the maximum of the quality is, once it reaches this value it rises no further.
Some stats on the speed/rate 1 and speed/rate 2:
- Speed 1 : each cycle is about 4 seconds
- Speed 2 : each cycle is about 3.666 seconds
- Rate 1 : each cycle gives you 0.2 materials
- Rate 2 : each cycle gives you 0.25 materials
How fast the quality rises has nothing to do with speed or rate. How many cycles you need to reach the maximum quality depends on the max. quality only.
Maximum quality:
- at Q10 you need 5 or 6 cycles to reach max
- at Q25 you need 6 cycles to reach max
- at Q50 you need 7 cycles to reach max
Source time stanzas: the basic prospection action, without any source time stanzas, generates a source with source time 25 seconds. The various source time stanzas generate sources that last as long as the name of the stanza implies (30s, 35s, 45s etc.)
Example:
At lvl 1, basic prospection gives you a source that lasts 25s. With speed 1, this allows for 25/4=6.25 cycles, i.e. 6 complete cycles. Using rate 1, you need 1/0.2=5 cycles to obtain one complete material. During these 5 cycles, the quality will hopefully rise to Q10, but if it doesn't, you have one extra cycle to spare before the source runs out.
Example 2:
At lvl 20, you can get source time 35s. This allows you 35/4=8.25 cycles, even using speed 1. Provided that you use rate 2, this means 8*0.25=2 whole materials, just about. Even if you are using Q25, you can extract 2xQ25, as 8 cycles are enough to reach maximum quality.
However, this doesn't give you any spare cycles, should you spoil the quality of your material.
