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Spices

Overview

When to Use Spice, and What to Expect:

Spice Basics:

Spices are portable buffs that can be used on demand. Using a different spice will enhance certain stats (anywhere from 1 to 6) for a specific time, followed by a downer period. You may only take one spice at a time. Spices are created by smugglers.

Effects of Spice:

Each spice has a list of attributes that are enhanced and a duration. For example, say you have a spice that increases Health by +100 for 400 seconds. When you take the spice, your current and maximum Health both increase by 100 points, and will remain that way for 400 seconds. Some spices actually cause negative effects or reduce certain stats while raising others.

The Downer:

After the spice has run its course, the downer kicks in. The effect of this is to REDUCE the stat that was buffed by the same amount that it was increased. So, in the last example, your maximum and current Health will decrease by 100. Downers last for one-third of the active time. Spice downer seems to behave like the effect on buffs and teras kasi power boost as it wanes. There is a time period of which the player's buffs drop down to the designated amount. The downer is not an instantaneous drop in the stat. When the spice effect begins to wane, there is a 50 second interval between that and when the player begins to "Puke." Once the player pukes, they have then lost the spice bonus and are now on the negative effects of the downer. After the stat hits the floor, it begins raising again incrementally based upon the duration of the downer. The affected stat will be totally regenerated come the end of the downer. The amount of times a player pukes during a down seems to be random. Perhaps 1-4 over a random interval during the downer period.

Example of spice downer:

[Spatial] 01:05:27 The Muon Gold fades, leaves your mind feeling weak and slow.
[Spatial] 01:06:18 You puke.

[Spatial] 18:29:15 The mind enhancement of the Thruster Head leaves you wracked with nausea.
[Spatial] 18:29:58 You puke.
[Spatial] 18:30:40 You puke.
[Spatial] 18:31:25 You puke.
[Spatial] 18:31:28 The intense nausea seems to have left.

Secondary Stat Spice Usage:

The spice downer only effects the stats that are initially effected by the spice itself. Therefore, if your spice only effects secondary stats, you will NEVER be incapped by the spice directly.

Doctor and Chef Buffs as Related to Spice:

Spice does stack with any and all Doctor or Chef food buffs as well.

Monitoring the Spice timers:

There is now a buff window as of Publish 6. In here you can monitor the Active Time remaining on your spice, as well as the time remaining for your downer to go away, when it comes to that. A very useful addition, so please keep an eye on it.

Example:

-- I am Twi'lek (bad choice for a rifleman!) and my mind bars are migrated to max 1100 500 500.
-- I eat muon gold and they quickly become 1600 1000 1000.
-- lets say 10 minutes later, after some heaving shooting, and immediately before the downer, my main mind bar value is 400/1600 (i.e., my mind bar is at about 25% full)
-- BOOM! muon downer hits
-- my mind bar Max value becomes 1/2 its normal 1100, so dips to 550
-- my mind bar Actual value becomes (current value - 500), so 400 - 500 = -100
-- I am INCAPPED!
-- I lie around and/or sit quietly for 3 minutes, and they return to max of 1100/500/500.

Using Spices

Spice Downer 1	Spice Downer 2	Spice Downer 3
Spice Downer 4	Spice Downer 5	Spice Downer 6	Spice Downer 7

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