Turret material change

[bnsfc]

Is its at all possible to change a turrets material? I don't think it is but I'm just checking. reason being I got a purple salvaging turret with 1400 DPS and 90% efficiency form a research station, but its nanolite. :/

[gussmed]

No, not really. The closest you can come is use the turret at a research station with some better material turrets. If 2 of the 3 turrets are a better material, you have a 2/3rds chance of the output being that material, and a 1/3rd chance of getting nanolite again.

[KaneNOD]

You have 5 slots. Every slot give to you 20%.

Slot 1: iron turret
Slot 2: iron turret
Slot 3: iron turret
Slot 4: Trinium turret
Slot 5: Trinium turret

60% chance to come an Iron turret
40% chance to come a Trinium one.

[rickcarson]

I've been wondering whether it would be possible to write a mod to make an add-on to a station which allows turret material upgrades. But I don't know if this example would run afoul of the legendary turrets are special thing.

In any case you should feel lucky to have one in naonite. Most of my uber mining turrets drop in iron. :-(

I typically have a stack of miners somewhere in the naonite/titanium area, and they'd be delighted to get such a turret.

(I keep the miners back because I find that the miners in the xanion area won't produce large amounts of lesser materials anyway. So to maintain a balanced portfolio I need some iron and titanium coming in)

[Bobucles]

If anything, the lower tier ores are an upgrade for weapons. Avorion guns need avorion armor and that's expensive, but iron guns can go on anything.

Mining and salvage lasers obviously need to be the highest tier or they're useless. This is upsetting because it means you need to completely replace all your lasers every 2 tiers, in a game where typical enemies don't actually drop mining equipment. It's pretty messed up.

[gussmed]

I wouldn’t say it’s “messed up.” Replacing your mining turrets isn’t that difficult, because mining turrets are pretty simple, and don’t vary much beyond R or P type and material. Generally you can find what you need at equipment stations, so you shouldn’t care whether enemies drop them or not.

[rickcarson]

I just don't bother (as a general rule) moving the mining ships up to higher tiers.

So I have several small stacks of miners pre-barrier. You can pretty easily get ~20 ships pre barrier and you only need 8 to breach it (which might include dedicated scavengers which follow your fleet (as compared to doing scavenging missions)d, so that leaves 12 for 'economics', which means even if you spend ~8 on mining there's plenty of overhead.

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Umop-aparns (sp??) (sorry) makes a fairly compelling case for having a large stack of miners pre-barrier.

I think if you're going to slap mining fighters on them then it makes sense to invest in making those ships as good as possible, but for me neglect works well too.

and if you get a lot of passive income from stations, then the game is effectively 'paying' you to invest a couple of extra hours pimping out your mining stack.

[David6768]

I generally go to 0,1 and built multiple turret factories. Check what kinds of turrets I can build and keep building more until RNGesus shines upon me. make one turret that is my favorite into a bluprint so i can make more if that factory somehow gets blown up.

[rickcarson]

Originally posted by David6768:

I generally go to 0,1 and built multiple turret factories. Check what kinds of turrets I can build and keep building more until RNGesus shines upon me. make one turret that is my favorite into a bluprint so i can make more if that factory somehow gets blown up.

They have a reroll button now, so you don't need to do this.

Arguably I think the reroll button is a bad thing, because once you can pwnage everything in the centre and build your own station chains it's not like you _need_ to save money.

So spending a couple of billion on dozens of turret factories sounds like a perfectly reasonable (late game) activity to me.

:D

[David6768]

oh ill have to look into this been spending my billions OOF
thx for the tip

not sure what else to spend money on tho really can only make so many factories before you crash sectors and only have so many active sectors


Edit:
I did about 30 rerolls, can you even make the 30k damage weapons anymore? The max I am seeing is 6k on teslas so far.