best way to get ores?

[VirulenceQuietus]

so i have been curious for a while now... and looking at it from my point of view farming Scalar (green ore) is one of the fastest ways to get the higher ores in the game.

please hear me out!
i make on average 100K+ in papers/game
average at 500+ of the following:
Vector (dark blue ore) tier 2 mat
Matrix (purple ore), tier 3 mat
Tensor (Orange ore) tier 4 mat
and finally Infiar (Teal / Light blue ore)

but im getting 10k+ of Scalar.....

now for the math part!
1 paper + 3 Scalar = 1 Vector
2 papers and 3 Vector = 1 Matrix (or 9 Scalar)
3 papers and 3 Matrix for 1 Tensor (or 27 Scalar)
4 papers and 3 Tensor for 1 Infiar (or 81 Scalar)

so the end cost for making 100 infiar would be 810 scalar+ 220 papers
my math may not be 100% accurate sorry!

point being!
if i can make over 17K+ of scalar and over 100k of papers in 20-30 minutes (if i put on ALL my Scalar nodes) is it worth grinding out Infiar or just farming as much Scalar as i can and using it to get other mats?


btw my highest Infiar node has 180 ore in it, and my highest Scalar node has 500 ore in it!


edit i get over 1k of each ore per game, i know it is not insane but it feels nice for custom games! and that is roughly 8 ore deposits per resource

[Cinex]

Way off, buddy - crafting 100 infiar from scalar would cost you 8100 scalar and 5800 papers. Super inefficient, even with maxed crafting discount.

Farming resources on custom maps is never optimal, because of limited resources and the need to rebuild miners. It's better to play story levels with good sources and upgrade miners as much as possible.

[VirulenceQuietus]

never had any luck with getting more mats from campaign levels than i ever do from custom games.

but i do get your point about crafting, thank you!

[bug]

overload stack as hard as you can, they stack both in duration and multiplicative effect. drop another ability like poison cloud or lightning ball periodically to run the whole timer out. give rumble a try, even if you can't kill them - stalling with venom/snowball/stun can give you valuable seconds. you don't have to win to get the resources afterall.

do it early (when you have a good MDPS value to do so) then quitout and start the process again. you'll get a lot more ores that way instead of finishing the map.

[VirulenceQuietus]

Originally posted by bugz:

overload stack as hard as you can, they stack both in duration and multiplicative effect. drop another ability like poison cloud or lightning ball periodically to run the whole timer out. give rumble a try, even if you can't kill them - stalling with venom/snowball/stun can give you valuable seconds. you don't have to win to get the resources afterall.

do it early (when you have a good MDPS value to do so) then quitout and start the process again. you'll get a lot more ores that way instead of finishing the map.

this makes sense actually! i shall have to try this next time i play!
do you have a map suggestion to do it on?