Quickhack crafting

[id795078477]

Does it make any sense to craft any quickhacks? It seems utterly pointless to me, because:

-- It's impossible to craft higher tier quickhack components out of the lower tier (or I didn't find how to do that)
-- All that's required is to upgrade OS as soon as possible. Takes a lot of components, but it's totally worth it: basic tier 5 OS extracts tier 5 quickhack components and $4000 out of every joint.
-- Quickhacks crafting has a very narrow window of "making sense" - because there's very little time between obtaining enough tier 5 quickhack components and when the quickhacks will be extracted out of joints whole

TL;DR: by the time I can craft tier 5 quickhacks, very little time remains till they will be extracted whole outright. So there's no point in crafting them when I can just get them. Assuming the priority given to the OS upgrades of course.

[valium]

You can use the crafting tab to upgrade lower components into higher ones.

You are correct in your realizations you dont even need to craft them, unless you are insanely unlucky and just never get the ones you want. Even with a non-netrunner build and using the base int available nodes, I have every quickhack available. At least purple and above, maybe missed some green and blues leveling up so quickly.

[id795078477]

Originally posted by valium:

You can use the crafting tab to upgrade lower components into higher ones.

You are correct in your realizations you dont even need to craft them, unless you are insanely unlucky and just never get the ones you want. Even with a non-netrunner build and using the base int available nodes, I have every quickhack available. At least purple and above, maybe missed some green and blues leveling up so quickly.

Can I? I can do it with regular components, but not quickhack components. If conversion from lower tiers to higher ones was possible then it would at least severely widen the time window - i.e. I could be getting my tier 5 quickhacks way earlier, so have more time before they are just extracted whole, potentially making it worth in the "interim" at least.

[Mei]

Pretty sure you need to buy the crafting specs for upgrading quickhack components from a netrunner vendor.

After you have the ones you need, quickhacks are great for selling. They are worth quite a lot.

[grouchpotatodjb]

Before this latest patch the quickhacks sold for silly money, but current patch not so much, still they train abit of netrunner and technical exp.