[SC] Question about upgrades

As I have stated in previous threads, I have returned to the game after a very long absence. Alot is new to me. Two things in particular are the LF4's and Upgrades. Which should I pursue first? And if it is upgrades, what should I upgrade first. Should I put the upgrades to 50% and chance losing the uridium to a failure or should I just max it out to make sure? Any information would be greatly appreciated.

 

LF4's come out of booty box's and are hard to find and cannot be purchased, if you are thinking about upgrades it is best to wait till upgrade hour as a norm it is every second Friday in the evening and the next one should be on the 18 of Dec and you will need to keep checking your back page for the pop up. Most players book uri during the MHH on the sunday ready for upgrade hour were the price is reduced. I use 100% upgrade as i have lost to much uri trying to cut corners. As to what to upgrade first is a grey zone depending on what you need most drones and lasers would be my choice and shields later.

 

drones, shields then lf4's 100% each time. try to catch upgrade hours but even then u can only do so much in an hour with the slow upgrade times. Maybe get rebate if u want to upgrade without upgrade hour

 

100% isn't most efficient?

 

i do 100% so no failure

 

but you overall use up more uri

 

but if it cost 2k uri to do 50% and it failed you're rather gonna do it 100% at 4k uri or try ya luck again at 50% at another 2k uri and if that fails that 8k uri in all when you get fed up and do it at 100%.

 

i do 80 % up to lvl 10 then 100% rest of way at 80% i spend less uri even if a few fail. i also worked for apis and zues and getting at least 35 lf4s before starting upgrading. upgrading makes a diffrence but less then what you would think

 

This is exactly what I'm trying to tell most people, which they fail to realise most of the time - upgrades sure do make a difference, but it's not truly worth investing in upgrades until one becomes at least semi-ufe imo, as I personally wouldnt upgrade anything except drones and maybe rocket launcher till I fill my ship entirely with lf4s

 

I think it'd be more like 1k uri for 50% chance vs 3k uri for 100% chance.

 

Use 50% and if u can get rebate if not its fine dont listen to wallet warriors they always use 100% there wasting uri but they love doing that if u do 50% u will win 4 times then lose 2 to 3 then 4 to 5 wins losing does suck but at the end of the day you get alot done with lil amount of uri I did this for all my drones spent less then 200k.

 

I just realized that my bios aren't full to 50pp. Should I take care of that first?

 

no. Almost no one maxes that out.

 

yeah i agree with last post. about 31 gets you full shield bio, bonus pvp dam, electo opts and evasive so if going to rush to a # i would go with 31 points invested then collect over time

 

No, its 38...

 

for sure 38s better lol i was just giving bare min b4 you should even try pvp. I didnt include rocket dam and % just fats, elcto opts and shield bio but with only 1 point in repping takes only 31 those are the must need points then alot i know choose paths after this ive heard mines are better then rockets but i guess it depends on playstyle

 

what's minimum pve

 

the best advice i could give is top row maxed except repping one gets only one point also evasive is optional but every little bit of defence helps after this if you want to put points into alein hunter thats up to you i never did npcs are easy once shield bio is maxed

i say this cause a little damage is not going to help if you got to rep all the time

18 points for shield bio maxed and 21 points if you add evasive

after these elcto opts is best in my opinion 5 points increases laser hit probility by 25%

 

I was thinking about resetting it for npcs and uri loot. That will leave me with my hull and shields maxed out on bio still. I have 28 pp. I box ALOT. I am also thinking about getting salprot lvl 3 for my pet. I am thinking about doing this in order to modify and upgrade my ship and do gates with a little more ease. What do you think Venom?

 

yeah but the more you reset points the more it cost it gets huge uri to reset but you got a few cheep resets too. if you box alot that would be the route to go. i think its 8 lvl 3 salvage protocols for pet to get extra spin from them dont hold me to that # though. also works on cargo from spaceball i hear

edit i wish the prot worked with pally