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Hendrick Jacobs
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.01.25 18:29:00 -
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Adam Average
Salvage Bucket
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Posted - 2013.01.25 18:34:00 -
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Believe it is rarity, or worth. I'm not fully sure, other then the higher it is, the generally better it is. So i'm going to swing and say it has something to do with worth. At least for now that is. |
Musta Tornius
BetaMax.
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Posted - 2013.01.25 18:41:00 -
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^ what he said. The higher the meta level the better the weapon in general. Sometimes they are quite different though so a higher meta weapon might not work in the same way as a lower one. This means that higher meta are not always better, just generally. |
Altina McAlterson
TRUE TEA BAGGERS
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Posted - 2013.01.25 18:42:00 -
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Adam Average wrote:Believe it is rarity, or worth. I'm not fully sure, other then the higher it is, the generally better it is. So i'm going to swing and say it has something to do with worth. At least for now that is.
Yea, it's the Item Level more or less. Anything bigger than 5 means it's officer/faction/deadspace/whatever and therefor extremely valuable. Just a quick way to check whether you got something good or something amazing without having to pull up the stats.
It also affects chance of inventing a T2 BPC in EVE. |
Cross Atu
Conspiratus Immortalis
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Posted - 2013.01.26 00:16:00 -
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+1 to the above post. |
Hendrick Jacobs
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.01.26 11:00:00 -
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Altina McAlterson wrote:Adam Average wrote:Believe it is rarity, or worth. I'm not fully sure, other then the higher it is, the generally better it is. So i'm going to swing and say it has something to do with worth. At least for now that is. Yea, it's the Item Level more or less. Anything bigger than 5 means it's officer/faction/deadspace/whatever and therefor extremely valuable. Just a quick way to check whether you got something good or something amazing without having to pull up the stats. It also affects chance of inventing a T2 BPC in EVE.
I get the T2 stands for "Tier 2", but what is BPC? |
dust badger
BetaMax.
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Posted - 2013.01.26 11:30:00 -
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T2 = Tech 2, tier 2 is something different
BPC is blue print copy, means it will run out and has a limited amount
BPO is blue print original, means it will never run out |
Scheneighnay McBob
Bojo's School of the Trades
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Posted - 2013.01.26 16:40:00 -
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In addition to what everyone above me said, I believe (not 100% sure) that meta level of you and your enemies also contributes somewhat to your earnings at the end of the battle. |
GarryKE
Omnispace Trading Company
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Posted - 2013.01.26 17:24:00 -
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Meta level one to four fall under tech one; above is tech two. In EVE you then move on to faction, deadspace, navy and pirate. Generally speaking, the higher the meta level, the more helpful the attributes become. For instance, a meta level 1 assault rifle may use more power grid and CPU than a meta level 4 and the meta level 4 will do higher damage.
Additionally, in EVE, though it may not be the same in Dust, most meta level four items will cost more than tech 2/meta level 5s, as they use less CPU/PG, however, in EVE, tech 2 equipment are often used alongside proficiency skills, giving tech 2 the upper edge but a much, much longer train time.
(For people looking for an argument or wanting to disprove me: my current train of thought is tech 2 tach lasers with scorch ammo (advanced ammo), though this can take a number of weeks to train depending on turret size (requires small laser turret 5, small laser turret specialization 1, medium turret 5, medium turret specialization 4, etc, plus things like motion prediction), so you move to meta level 4s with navy ammo until you train for the skills).
That's mostly how it works in EVE but I don't really know how it works in Dust, but I would imagine it's similar in a lot of respects.
So go with higher meta levels where possible but the majority of the trade-off is in costs and SP. |
S Park Finner
BetaMax.
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Posted - 2013.01.26 21:14:00 -
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From a post I made in another thread...
There is confusion / discussion within the EVE community about what meta level means too. You can check out
this, this and this for a sample.
The best over all answer I have is that an item's meta level is an indication of it's product generation or product line. Think of an IPhone 5 vs and IPhone IV. There are some things you might like about the V, in some ways you might like the features of the IV better. To look at it another way, compare the IPhone to Android phones. The manufacturers might come up with the next generation Android device and focus on a fancy camera -- they call it , say, Android Phone 5, but it doesn't really compare to the IPhone 5 unless you really care about that camera. The Android Phone 6 might have an even better camera, but the other things about could still be just average.
Historically in EVE, as the developers responded to the community and added new ideas of their own, they seem to have labeled later items with higher meta levels than earlier devices. It looks like DUST 514 developers have adopted a similar pattern. While CCP is fond of "hidden" or undocumented aspects of items, as far as I know higher meta level does not simply mean "better" in a simple way.
TL:DR Higher meta level means different than the base model, possibly better / specialized in some respects but also with the potential for drawbacks / the-same-specifications in others. |
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GarryKE
Omnispace Trading Company
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Posted - 2013.01.27 16:27:00 -
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Apologies for being wrong then, OP, that's honestly the way I thought it worked. While, generally, it does work like that from what I've seen, the dude above me jumped my mind back to when I salvaged some modules from a security mission in EVE. While they were Serpentis pirate faction mods, their attributes were quite bad in comparison to some I was already fitted with, and they had a meta level of around eight or so.
But does it work like that in Dust though or is it a linear upgrade thing? |
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