Hey folks.
Hey folks. Quick question. So, our scanners show how much XM we have stored. But...the scanners don't use units. What is XM measured in, exactly? Grams? MeV? ....Newtons? When I have 10000 XM, what is that measured in? That can't be a whole lot, given it's trapped inside your phone-er, scanner.
I don't think the "units" of XM have a name yet. I would assume that the unit is defined as the smallest quantity that is currently measurable; or at least, that was measurable at the time the scanner technology was first implemented.
ReplyDeleteYeah I was wondering similar things as I looked over the new graphics. You can see where in the form the XM is contained and how much as the shiny silver bits, powercubes have that huge amount (but seemingly in the same cube size) and like turrets and some others use very little. Shields appear to use a lot.
ReplyDeleteGiven that the models appear to be the same size, perhaps XM also comes in varying density. Surely though, a single XM orb has some measurable value and likely we measure all XM by standard XM orb content...like maybe 1000xm is 100xm orbs worth (XM collected can then still be manipulated and condensed).
Was looking at the graphics trying to figure out how much of their form is physically possible or whether there may be a difference in weapons and gear that is more metaphysical and gear that would be more physically based/possible (Seeking analogies to En=Energy Re=Reality).
what's also weird: why doesn't recycling a power cube give you both the XM contained inside, AND the material the storage container is made of? does the fact that Link Amps give 80XM mean that's what it costs to constitute them? Why is the cost of hacking lower than the total XM returned by recycling what you could theoretically hack?
ReplyDeleteKrishna Hammond it could be that in converting xm into functional material ties up a certain amount of the energy and even destroying it will not release that potential. Somewhere XM was likened to oil that can create it's own engines... Perhaps the engines are like oil turned into plastic... You could melt the plastic down again and get a certain amount of energy in burning it, but never the potential you lost in converting the oil into plastic... The original raw material had more potential energy before conversion(in this case raw XM is full of easily accessible energy while hacked gear containing large volumes of converted xm will not return same raw energy. Converting it into a specific use is somewhat irreversible) .
ReplyDeleteI think they were designed that way as a safety feature. Power cubes can be dangerous. Releasing all that XM at once can be dangerous. I think the recycling mechanism is intended to defuse it safely, as an emergency failsafe.
ReplyDelete"the container or the framework of the object that is being recycled while the raw xm is lost."
ReplyDeleteLost, or converted back into its data phase to be transmitted back to the NIA server farms that support our scanner devices, to be added to the stockpile of XM we've all been harvesting for them?