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    • Fuel Scoop


      What's the value again?

      I was busy creating a converter for myself in Numbers (Mac's Excel) for shield, armor, deionize and fuel values in the terms of units per second recovered. However, I can't seem to find in the Nova Bible exact numbers for the fuel scoop to work from.

      From Nova Bible: "How many frames per 1 unit of fuel generated. Enter a negative value to perform the same function in “fuel sucking” mode"

      So let's say I wanted to find out what value I needed to equal 1 unit of fuel regenerated per second. That's what I'm trying to find.
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      If anyone's interested, my conversions for the other values:
      Shields = S * (1000/30) = units per second of shield regenerated
      Armor = A * (1000/30) = units per second of armor regenerated
      Deionize = D * (3000) = units per second of ionization eliminated

    • 30 frames every second (this is constant; Nova doesn't speed up the game depending on the frame rate.)

      x frames per unit

      1 unit per second

      30 frames per unit. 😉

      That would be Energy = E * (x/30)

      This post has been edited by JacaByte : 04 January 2009 - 12:01 AM

    • Thank you very much JacaByte.

      Edit: So 5 fuel units regenerated in one second equals value 150.

      This post has been edited by Trinix : 04 January 2009 - 12:16 AM

    • ...no, it's inverse, so 5 units of fuel per second would be a value of 6...

      I got the equation wrong. I'll fix it tomorrow. yawn

    • As JacaByte said, it's the number of frames to make one unit of fuel at 30 frames per second. There are 100 units in a jump, so at one frame/unit, it would take you 100 frames (3.3 seconds,) to make one jump's worth of fuel. At a value of two, we're now up to 6.6 seconds to make 100 units (30/2 gives us 15 units per second.)

      If you want it in a nice equation then, E/sec = 30/x

    • Thank you. 🙂