Age of Origins Elite Equipment Facility

This is one of a building in the Age of Origins Buildings page.

Equipment

Equipment gives good boosts to your battle power and also increases your laser damage in tower defense. Unlike officers, eventually you will have all gold level 6 equipment with fully upgraded level 6 extensions. This will take a long time and there are several ways to get there. Equipment can be daunting because the different approaches have different trade-offs. If you want a quick boost in power, it’s good to start upgrading your equipment level and color. The problem comes when upgrading at the later levels because you must gamble to upgrade your color and the maximum gamble chance is 50/50. You will be throwing away thousands of white materials if you fail this gamble. Also remember not all materials are the same. Some are more rare than others. So even though I say you will need 3125 materials, you may need more than this because you may have an excess of one type and a shortage of another. Browse the charts below. I assume all material types have the same rarity to make the math easy.

A lot of people like to rush purple equipment, mostly because a purple level 4 radar gives a 31% long range attack boost. I am not against this, but I would not do this with every piece of equipment. Refer to  the chart below for my example build. Remember, this is for 1 piece of equipment and you have 8. One perfect build, winning all of your 50/50 gambles, takes 9750 materials. Using gold only takes 12500 materials. Gambling from level 4 purple to level 5 gold takes 3125 materials. One missed gamble makes it more efficient to start from gold 1 and work up. For a free player, this will take a month or longer to get your first gold materials. The beginning of the game involves a lot of territory wars and random fighting and people like to be powerful so they won’t follow this. I don’t recommend building purple materials and then gambling, I recommend a mixed approach. You can build radar level 4 purple for a nice boost but that is the only one I would do. The rest of the equipment can be built to blue or green to give some boost, but not waste too many materials. 

You can deconstruct these built materials to get some of your power ore and materials back, but you still waste some. I haven’t destroyed a bunch of equipment so I don’t have a good conversion for that process. 

Starting with a level 2 blue and working your way up takes just about the same materials if you get lucky with a 50% success rate. Making all 8 equipment types to gold 5 costs 6800 more materials than going with gold only and you get the boosts in the beginning. A 33% success rate costs 28,800 more materials. A 50% success rate converting all 8 equipment types from level 4 purple to level 4 gold costs 50,000 materials, which is the same amount of materials required to build 4 equipment types from level 1 gold to level 5 gold. Do you feel lucky, punk?

Ok

The second approach is to build all level 4 purple for the quick power boost and then to gamble everything to level 4 orange before building level 5. Since some materials are more rare than others you can try to get lucky and gamble using orange and purple pieces. When you go to the upgrade screen you will see the left side components are more common than the right side so we can take advantage of this and gamble with a lower percentage but use less rare materials. I think this is the better way to go than trying to gamble 50/50 using all orange pieces. Make sure you are not upgrading AND changing color. Only change color!! You can do this by going to the equipment facility, choosing develop, and then clicking on level 4 (the one you already have) and you can change the color without changing the level.

Extensions

Extension slots become available after you’ve leveled your equipment to Level 2. Extensions require blueprints and Extension Components to build. Although you can disassemble your equipment extensions and get some components back, I recommend not upgrading any extensions until you get superior or ultra quality. Sometimes you have to upgrade to complete a quest to use some components and you will get some of these back when you disassemble the equipment but try not to waste too many. I would also recommend upgrading your attack bonuses before your defense bonuses.