Using Spice Context 1 (Source)
MUONGOLD 101: HOW MUON GOLD (SPICE) WORKS by: WayneInAustin
Here is a description of how the spice named "muon gold" works. Master smugglers and some vendors sell muon gold. It is a spice: you eat it. I recommend purchasing "factory crates" which usually contain 20 or 25 units. A fair price seems to be around 10,000cr for a case of 25 (unit price 400)
The Up Side When you eat the muon gold, all three of your mind bars go up +500 each for 600 seconds (10 minutes) This has the following positive effects:
- You have more mind to use
- Special shots take less mind power away from the mind (less HAM usage per shot)
- The little bit of mind you do use regens fast.
- Unless you are Master firing every second, It is almost impossible to use up your mind bar for those 10 minutes.
So equip your T21 if you have one and spam you're highest damage shots!
The Down Side As I mentioned, the positive effect lasts for 10 minutes. I've timed it with a stop watch. Only seemed to be off by a couple of seconds.
- When the muon gold wears off, you will see a message that says "muon gold downer".
- All 3 of your mind pools suddenly dip to ONE HALF their normal value!
- Sometimes you will incap yourself because the reductions take one of your mind bars below zero!
(Many times I'm standing around after a fight when I suddenly just fall over!) Those people who are with you usually laugh their arses off and call you a druggie.
- Your character will kneel down and puke once or twice.
- During the downer, if you're not incapped, you can function normally - you just have to be extra careful because you're a half-wit.
- The downer lasts for 3 minutes (longest I timed was 3 minutes, 18 secs).
As the downer ends, you will see a message that say's "Muon downer done" and all your mind bars should return to their normal state, with normal max values.
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.
Current Bugs (May be fixed soon): It was recently reported that Double buffs can cause problems with the secondary HAM bar values. On more than one occasion lately I have eaten muon gold and seen my Focus and Willpower increase in MAX value (from 500 to 1000 each) but seen the actual value stay at 500 (so they are both 500/1000). This is a real nuisance as you are not receiving any benefit on the regen and lessened damage if the actual value of these bars is not doubled. I saw this recently when I had a full set of HA buffs from a Master Doc.
