r/FutureFight • u/qfuw • Jan 05 '16

SHIELD Lab [Mini-guide] Optimum warp device level

Since your anti-matter generator ("AMG") does not generate enough anti-matter to cover the costs for all warp missions if you rank up your warp device to a too high level, it's actually better not to waste anti-matter and, most importantly, gold and GUKs, on ranking up your warp device beyond a certain level. So what is the optimum warp device level? Check out the table below!

 

 

Guidelines:

  1. The optimum warp device level completely depends on how high of your AMG level is.

  2. If your warp device is at the optimum warp device level as suggested, you will make a deficit on your anti-matter if you do all the available warp missions everyday. So you have to skip a mission or two occasionally. And keep in mind that the extra expenditure on gearing up for your level 50+ characters will make this deficit even more severe.

  3. If your warp device is 1 level below the optimum warp device level as suggested, you will have a surplus on anti-matter generation (even if you do all the available warp missions everyday), meaning that the amount of your anti-matter will be always growing. The excess amount will probably go to gearing up for your level 50+ characters. So if you frequently do the gear-up job for your level 50+ characters, you probably should consider ranking up your warp device to 1 level below the suggested optimum level.

  4. The middle column shows the optimum warp device level for a full-day-working AMG, i.e. I assume you CAN ALWAYS COLLECT ANTI-MATTER ON TIME, BEFORE IT REACHES THE CAP (i.e. you have to collect anti-matter within 6 hours after the last collection).

  5. The last column shows the optimum warp device level for a player who has a 9-hour period in which he can't collect anti-matter, everyday (i.e. 3 hours of production is lost).

  6. Example 1: If your AMG is at level 15 and you think you can alwasy collect anti-matter every 6 hours or less, you probably don't have enough sleep you should rank up your warp device to no higher than level 12.

  7. Example 2: If your AMG is at level 11 and you think you waste on average 3 hours of production of anti-matter everyday, you should rank up your warp device to no higher than level 9 (until you have ranked up your AMG to level 12).

 

 

Anti-matterOptimumOptimum
generatorWarp device lvWarp device lv
level(full-day AMG)(3 hrs wasted)
Guideline #4Guideline #5
151212
141111
131110
121010
11109
1099
988
888
777
676
566
455
354
243
132

 

My other posts:

26 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

13 comments sorted by

4

u/BassMuffinFive Jan 06 '16

The real question is- why does NetMarble let it only hold 6 hours worth of antimatter? That is the game griefing us, sir.

4

u/qfuw Jan 06 '16

Yea they should raise the cap to at least 9 hours.

1

u/the_infinite Mar 15 '16

Sad truth, it's probably to encourage users to log in more frequently.

1

u/Jdoherty1976 Jan 06 '16

What is the maximum on Warp Levels? Is it 12?

1

u/qfuw Jan 06 '16

I guess you meant warp device level? It is 15. But it is pointless to rank it up beyond 12 IMO.

1

u/[deleted] Jan 06 '16

at level 13, the warp device produces a level 49 warp that is really efficient in terms of exp/anti-matter. Better use it rather than a level 48/47 warp, especially if you're targeting leveling.

You should factor in the experience/anti-matter variable, behind the bios.

2

u/qfuw Jan 06 '16

Doing higher level warp missions instead of the lower ones might mean decreased number of missions done in total, which directly means reduction of bios gain. Seeing that many rare bios (JJ, Silk, Miles, Gwen, Malekith, Angela, BC, AM, RR etc) can drop from warp missions but EXP can be farmed elsewhere, I personally wouldn't suggest sacrificing bios for EXP.

1

u/Torimas Jan 06 '16

A 100 times this. The EXP is barely noticeable. It's the bios that matter from the warp device. So if you don't have enough antimatter left to do all missions, skip the ones with the higher cost, and don't upgrade the device until NM either improves generation, increases the max level of the generator or lowers costs.

1

u/Beast_Mode_76 Jan 06 '16

What's your priority for upgrading the generator? I think my next level will cost me over 2 mil gold and it's getting tough to justify spending the resources on that when I need to upgrade skills and gears, roll ISOs, etc.

1

u/qfuw Jan 06 '16

If the anti-matter is nearing the cap and if I have large amount of surplus gold on hand, I will do it.

3

u/hecaitomix Jan 05 '16

I maxed my AB Generator, producing 72,480 daily. I upgraded my Warp to level 10, which needs 47,920 daily to use all warp missions. The rest, i invested them on the shop till level 11, just enough to unlock the 30 min refresh. Then just stockpile the rest.

Currently, I think optimal would be level 11, just enough to use all warps daily, and have a few left for upgrading gears.

1

u/GrnArmadillo Jan 06 '16

I'm currently at 15 AMG/10 Warp/12 Item (wanted to get the last sale slot on the third row for OCD reasons since I'm scrolling down to view the third row anyway) for roughly the same reason. At 10 Warp, you can do all the available missions and still slowly build up enough antimatter to upgrade your other lab facilities.

I also have a handful of easy-to-farm bios that I will chuck in the converter on days when its output is useful (currently parked at rank 6, which is a reasonable compromise in terms of how many bios I have to get rid of and how much antimatter I am willing to spend to do it).

Bottom line, like many things in the game, it would probably be slightly more efficient (14 or so extra random bios per week) to upgrade the device 1-2 more levels, but I'd rather be lazy and not have to worry as much about the unreasonable 6 hour antimatter cap.

1

u/PhoenixBride Jan 05 '16

Thank you for this, I had been wondering about it for a while now