2019.01.17 09:49 by Kano Fiera
Mantzikert Askold wrote:I'm looking at the 200mm Light Gallium Machine Gun and the 200mm Light Prototype Automatic Cannon
They seem to have identical stats, except
Gallium has an optimal range of 1100m and Damage modifier of 3.176.
Prototype has an optimal range of 1150m and Damage Modifier of 3.321.
Which to me means the Prototype is marginally better.
But it has a lower price.
Am I missing something?
The Prototype (meta 3) is better than the Gallium (meta 2) and if it's cheaper, you should just buy the Prototype. However, it's not usually cheaper -- Evepraisal says that right now the median sale price for the Prototype is over twice as expensive as for the Gallium.
Since meta items are only available via drops from destroyed NPCs, sometimes you'll find cases where inferior equipment is "more expensive" because the superior equipment is so common that it alone satisfies all demand, so the inferior equipment is practically never traded. That's not the case here overall; 200mm cannons are very commonly used, so both of these meta items are traded a lot. You must just be in a region where there are no favorable 200mm Gallium deals on offer.