Weapon and Ammo Quality

2 questions.

1. Is upgrading more cost effective to buy low quality and upgrade to max quality or buy 330q and upgrade from there

a) For Weapon Systems.
b) For Ammo.

2. What is the rate of quality decline?
a)Is this quality decline negated while weapons and ammo is stored in space or nah?!

1. The answer to this varies depending on the cost of the weapon or ammo. The reason for this is that cost of weapon and ammo upgrades is fixed where the cost of the weapon and ammo varies. So, less expensive items like jeeps and tank shells you always purchase at 330 quality and never upgrade and more expensive items like stealth bombers and laser guided bombs you have the opportunity to save money purchasing the item at 120 and upgrading.

1. For any given item, you might want to pull out your calculator and determine the difference in the cost of each added quality in the weapon/ammo's purchase, .01 times cost, versus the cost of a single upgrade. Making this more difficult is an added twist. If you upgrade manually, the quality of the upgrade does not appear to matter. If you upgrade automatically, the quality of the upgrade is determined against the quality of the weapon/ammo it is upgrading and may consume more or less units depending. T

So in essence, to upgrade a 330q weapon, I need to use a high quality upgrade in the automatic process, to remain cost effective?

Based on what I read here, I think the real solution is to start from low q weapons/ammo and just go. I can't stand number crunching although I admit the necessity of it in this case. Where are all the real MathemaFackers when you need them? I could really use Laguna right now...

Thanks Aries.

The quality of the upgrade does not make a difference in either the speed at which the upgrade is completed or in the number of upgrades required to move up. I tested this recently using int units in 2 countries. Both units were the same quality to start. I used upgrades that were 122Q in one country and 250Q in another. Units in both countries upgraded at the same speed and used the same number of upgrades to get there.
I always buy all weapon and ammo upgrades at 120Q.

Thanks for testing this Zentrino. That bit of information is incredibly valuable. I may try to test this with two different countries too. Try 330/120 weapon and ammo units with 330/120 quality upgrades and see if this holds true as well.

Hard to prepare properly without the right info.

My understanding is that the speed of upgrades should indeed be the same. However, the difference should be, that when you use automatic upgrades, in how many upgrade products are consumed each month depending on their quality.

Please post your results, thanks.

So I've been wasting tens of trillions SC$ on 300-330q upgrades. End my life. I normally buy ammo/weapons at 330q except expensive ones at 120q. However I always buy ammo and weapon upgrades at 330q.

Please test this so I don't waste more money.

I guess it was PB unit not an int unit that I tested on. Here are the specific results:

I have been conducting an experiment to see if the quality of the products Ammo Quality Upgrades and Weapon Quality Upgrades makes a difference in either the speed of the upgrade or the number of upgrades required. I have concluded the experiment with positive results.

In country 1, I had a single PB unit with 400 PB and 48,000 PB missiles. The unit began at 254Q and I started with 10M ammo quality upgrades at 122Q. The weapon upgrades were at 122Q as well. Unfortunately, I forgot to turn off the auto-buy feature for weapon quality upgrades so I can't compare numbers here but the ammo upgrades are telling enough.

In country 2, I had a single PB unit with 400 PB and 48,000 PB missiles. The unit began at 254Q and I started with 10M ammo quality upgrades at 245Q. The weapon quality upgrades were 250Q. Again, for the reason above, I can'

This is good info Zentrino, thanks for sharing.