Jhereg
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I wanted to present a way for people to think about efficiency that might make it easier to understand the impact of attachments and such. I've seen a few posts where people discuss increasing or decreasing efficiency when using attachments/enhancers etc, and I think the below points might help clear some things up.
1) Using attachments on your weapon does not change the efficiency of your weapon itself
To elaborate, you can consider each weapon and attachment as their own thing. You are still decaying the weapon at the same rate, at the same efficiency so that hasn't changed. What has changed is you have introduced additional decay at some different efficiency. For example, using a gun + amp is effectively the same as shooting the gun and shooting the amp separately! Extenders are sort of an exception so see below.
2) The modified efficiency value is a weighted average of all efficiencies on gun+attachments.
Efficiency weighted by Cost per use. This is what is shown as the modified efficiency in the item description.
3) Enhancers don't change the efficiency of your weapon, but instead increases cost+damage proportionally (10% per enhancer slot filled). This might appear as better or worse efficiency when you have attachments, but with no attachments you will see no efficiency change visible in item description.
4) Extenders: Decay that is given to the extender instead of the original weapon is assigned the extenders efficiency.
Bottom line: Consider your weapon and each attachment as separate buckets. If you use a gun + amp, your gun efficiency isn't changing. Rather, you've added additional cycling with an amp at some other efficiency. The effective efficiency that is shown on the weapon description is the weighted average of all the efficiencies.
1) Using attachments on your weapon does not change the efficiency of your weapon itself
To elaborate, you can consider each weapon and attachment as their own thing. You are still decaying the weapon at the same rate, at the same efficiency so that hasn't changed. What has changed is you have introduced additional decay at some different efficiency. For example, using a gun + amp is effectively the same as shooting the gun and shooting the amp separately! Extenders are sort of an exception so see below.
2) The modified efficiency value is a weighted average of all efficiencies on gun+attachments.
Weighted arithmetic mean - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
3) Enhancers don't change the efficiency of your weapon, but instead increases cost+damage proportionally (10% per enhancer slot filled). This might appear as better or worse efficiency when you have attachments, but with no attachments you will see no efficiency change visible in item description.
4) Extenders: Decay that is given to the extender instead of the original weapon is assigned the extenders efficiency.
Bottom line: Consider your weapon and each attachment as separate buckets. If you use a gun + amp, your gun efficiency isn't changing. Rather, you've added additional cycling with an amp at some other efficiency. The effective efficiency that is shown on the weapon description is the weighted average of all the efficiencies.