Talk:Sydon/@comment-108.87.117.137-20160110154807/@comment-24856325-20160111013451

"I don't think "cost' of the weapon should factor into if the weapon is good or not.. by that logic, it would be "better" to shoot at people with a .22 than a .338 Lapua...

Factoring cost into the equation just seems.... lame.."

Manufacting requirements do matter especially when the weapons it's competing against happen to be far cheaper than this weapon. So let's do a bit of fun math shall we?

The Sydon's research requirements need 5 Nitain Extract, 16,500 Ferrite, 12,000 Alloy Plates, 4,650 Rubedo, 72 hours, 5,000 credits and 15,000 credits to buy the BP. The manufacturing requirements are 5 Detonite Injectors, 1,100 Circuits, 4,000 Salvage, 20,000 credits and a fully built Amphis which requires 2 Neurodes, 500 Salvage, 600 Circuits, 600 Alloy Plates, 30,000 credits and 12 hours to build and the Sydon itself needs 24 hours to fully build.

So if we combined these costs together, we will need to sink 5 Nitain Extract, 16,500 Ferrite, 12,600 Alloy Plates, 4,650 Rubedo, 5 Detonite Injectors, 1,700 Circuits, 4,500 Salvage, 2 Neurodes, 70,000 credits and 108 hours to research and fully build the Sydon.

Now let's have a look at the Serro. Its research requirements are 5 Fieldron Samples, 400 Circuits, 500 Salvage, 1 Neural Sensor, 72 hours, 5,000 Credits and 15,000 Credits to buy the BP. Its manufacturing requirements are 1 Fieldron, 400 Circuits, 1,000 Salvage, 3 Neural Sensors, 24 hours and 20,000 Credits to fully build.

Now combined the costs for the Serro together and you will need to sink 5 Fieldron Samples, 800 Circuits, 1,500 Salvage, 4 Neural Sensors, 1 Fieldron, 96 hours and 40,000 Credits to research and fully build the Serro.

As you can see from these paragraphs above, it's far cheaper to sink resourses into the Serro than the Sydon. In conclusion, I'm not stopping you from liking the Sydon. If you like the Sydon, that's fine. However all I'm saying is that when there's a similar weapon in its category that has a similar role, manufacturing costs are taken into account.