Figured some people might like to see what the steel bird challenge will end up costing them. So throwing out my data.
Steel Birds Gen 01, no elites
Setup:
Weapon: Improved Kross H400 (L) + A105 (+ ~180 ped of adjusted korss for the first 200ish)
Tagger: Opallo, just to bring them down into handgun range.
Armor: 4 pieces of thunderbird (L), 2 pieces of gremlin, 1 piece of nemesis +3B plates (its what i had in storage). I stuck tier 1 defense enhancers in the tbird pieces for some of it, none were consumed. I would have liked full tbird for this, but I didn't want to buy the other 3 pieces just for this.
FAP, combat: Hedoc SK-20 (L)
FAP, non combat: Vivo T1
Area:
For the 50 and 250 challenge some of it was N of phoenix with some defenders mixed in, and some of it S of billies with attackers mixed in.
For the 1000 challenge it was all NE of Camp Caravan, only birds nothing else.
Professions(starting):
157.08 hp
Laser Pistoleer (Hit): 52.98
Ranged Laser (Dmg): 50.56
Dodger: 24.42
Professions(ending): (1agi, 1str, 30ped combat reflexes rewards)
158.00 hp
Laser Pistoleer (Hit): 53.49
Ranged Laser (Dmg): 50.90
Dodger: 25.20
Total TT costs: 8124.95
Total TT return: 7529.89 - 92.68%
w/markup(nothing to the TT), about 5% over break even. But only because i got lucky with a 158 ped esi. Without that it would have been about 3.5% below break even.
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Breakdown data based off the kill 1000 mission. The first 300 had other types of npcs mixed in. The kill 1000 was pure steelbirds. TT return for the last 1000 was 92.44% so its representative of the total as well.
The kill 1000 was broken down into 4 hunting trips, 158, 161, 201, 480 kills. So no super short runs, but the first 3 weren't exactly long. Im not breaking down per run, but will list the TT returns for the 4 runs: 87.59%, 65.71%, 74.31%, 110.56% (I generally like to keep my hunting trips above 500 kills, but that wasnt possible with steel birds and the weapon i used, the last run took 13.5 hours).
Total time: ~27 hours for the kill 1000
Note: The term "loot event" below does not count a frag only loot.
---Cost Breakdown(kill 1000)
Total TT costs: 6139.65
Faps: 78.29 - 1.28% of total (72.6% with a vivo T1, rest with SK-20)
Armor: 72.77 - 1.19% of total
---Damage Breakdown
You Inflict(crit): 795 hits, 75175.6 damage, high:114.0, low:12.1, 94.6 avg
You Inflict: 41842 hits, 1684694.2 damage, high:57.0, low:4.0, 40.3 avg
Total hits: 42637, Total Damage: 1759869.8, crit: 1.86%
You MISS: 4879, 10.27% of total
NPC hits you(crit): 36 hits, 2047.5 damage, 56.9 average
NPC hits you: 3810 hits, 92998.9 damage, high:114.9, low:8.0, 24.4 avg
Total NPC hits: 3846 hits, 95046.4 damage
---Loot Size Breakdown(kill 1000)
No loot: 280
Frag only: 40(possibly inaccurate because it was manually tabulated)
Total no loot: 320 - 32%
tt cost/kill: 6.13965 ped
average/total kills: 5.67558
average loot/loot event: 8.34645 ped
above average loot events: 29 - 2.9% of total kills, 4.26% of loot events. 10 in the range of 31-36 ish peds, 14 in the range of 65-90 ish peds, 4 in the range of 130-190 peds, and 1 larger 468 ped
average loot/loot event excluding above average loot events(didnt record exact for the non globals so using 33 ped per for them): ~4.9ped
total above average loot events/total loot = ~43.8%
Note: the above average loot events are well within the norm for my hunting data overall. So This was normal in terms of loot events. I didnt get any special loot sizes.
---Loot(kill 1000)
Total TT loot: 5675.58 - 92.44% of costs
Total Ammo looted: 1240.91 ped - 21.86%
TT ammo looted: 957.60
Explosives looted: 283.31
Items of note looted: 384.94 ped - 6.8%
4 empty skill implants, 158.30, 19.05, 15.38, 18.11
3 hedok sk-50, 75.00, 63.94, 35.16 (note, 2 more sk-50s were looted on the first 300 kills, 75.00 and 32.16 ped)
Rest was mostly very low markup robot components, brown paint, and low markup enhancer/tier/frag components. Also a small amount of cumbriz+blaus(about 0.5% of loot).
Steel Birds Gen 01, no elites
Setup:
Weapon: Improved Kross H400 (L) + A105 (+ ~180 ped of adjusted korss for the first 200ish)
Tagger: Opallo, just to bring them down into handgun range.
Armor: 4 pieces of thunderbird (L), 2 pieces of gremlin, 1 piece of nemesis +3B plates (its what i had in storage). I stuck tier 1 defense enhancers in the tbird pieces for some of it, none were consumed. I would have liked full tbird for this, but I didn't want to buy the other 3 pieces just for this.
FAP, combat: Hedoc SK-20 (L)
FAP, non combat: Vivo T1
Area:
For the 50 and 250 challenge some of it was N of phoenix with some defenders mixed in, and some of it S of billies with attackers mixed in.
For the 1000 challenge it was all NE of Camp Caravan, only birds nothing else.
Professions(starting):
157.08 hp
Laser Pistoleer (Hit): 52.98
Ranged Laser (Dmg): 50.56
Dodger: 24.42
Professions(ending): (1agi, 1str, 30ped combat reflexes rewards)
158.00 hp
Laser Pistoleer (Hit): 53.49
Ranged Laser (Dmg): 50.90
Dodger: 25.20
Total TT costs: 8124.95
Total TT return: 7529.89 - 92.68%
w/markup(nothing to the TT), about 5% over break even. But only because i got lucky with a 158 ped esi. Without that it would have been about 3.5% below break even.
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Breakdown data based off the kill 1000 mission. The first 300 had other types of npcs mixed in. The kill 1000 was pure steelbirds. TT return for the last 1000 was 92.44% so its representative of the total as well.
The kill 1000 was broken down into 4 hunting trips, 158, 161, 201, 480 kills. So no super short runs, but the first 3 weren't exactly long. Im not breaking down per run, but will list the TT returns for the 4 runs: 87.59%, 65.71%, 74.31%, 110.56% (I generally like to keep my hunting trips above 500 kills, but that wasnt possible with steel birds and the weapon i used, the last run took 13.5 hours).
Total time: ~27 hours for the kill 1000
Note: The term "loot event" below does not count a frag only loot.
---Cost Breakdown(kill 1000)
Total TT costs: 6139.65
Faps: 78.29 - 1.28% of total (72.6% with a vivo T1, rest with SK-20)
Armor: 72.77 - 1.19% of total
---Damage Breakdown
You Inflict(crit): 795 hits, 75175.6 damage, high:114.0, low:12.1, 94.6 avg
You Inflict: 41842 hits, 1684694.2 damage, high:57.0, low:4.0, 40.3 avg
Total hits: 42637, Total Damage: 1759869.8, crit: 1.86%
You MISS: 4879, 10.27% of total
NPC hits you(crit): 36 hits, 2047.5 damage, 56.9 average
NPC hits you: 3810 hits, 92998.9 damage, high:114.9, low:8.0, 24.4 avg
Total NPC hits: 3846 hits, 95046.4 damage
---Loot Size Breakdown(kill 1000)
No loot: 280
Frag only: 40(possibly inaccurate because it was manually tabulated)
Total no loot: 320 - 32%
tt cost/kill: 6.13965 ped
average/total kills: 5.67558
average loot/loot event: 8.34645 ped
above average loot events: 29 - 2.9% of total kills, 4.26% of loot events. 10 in the range of 31-36 ish peds, 14 in the range of 65-90 ish peds, 4 in the range of 130-190 peds, and 1 larger 468 ped
average loot/loot event excluding above average loot events(didnt record exact for the non globals so using 33 ped per for them): ~4.9ped
total above average loot events/total loot = ~43.8%
Note: the above average loot events are well within the norm for my hunting data overall. So This was normal in terms of loot events. I didnt get any special loot sizes.
---Loot(kill 1000)
Total TT loot: 5675.58 - 92.44% of costs
Total Ammo looted: 1240.91 ped - 21.86%
TT ammo looted: 957.60
Explosives looted: 283.31
Items of note looted: 384.94 ped - 6.8%
4 empty skill implants, 158.30, 19.05, 15.38, 18.11
3 hedok sk-50, 75.00, 63.94, 35.16 (note, 2 more sk-50s were looted on the first 300 kills, 75.00 and 32.16 ped)
Rest was mostly very low markup robot components, brown paint, and low markup enhancer/tier/frag components. Also a small amount of cumbriz+blaus(about 0.5% of loot).
