Number of Charges

MrMatador1

I bought a couple of apparel codes on the market and they both had 12+ charges. After I decompiled and made the code for one of the items, it only gave me 1 charge. Is it linked to my decompile skill or write skill? My decompile skill is 77 and apparel crafting 69. I can make a some items to boost my decompile skill to 80+, but can't make many apparel crafting items.

MrMatador

**DelstarDotstar**

Actually what you bought was an OLD (before some apparel changes) apparel
code. A while back any clothing or other item that you made gave you around
10 or more charges. They decided that this was too many because you could
get more bits then what you had used to make the item code. So they drastically
changed it to be what it is now. I still have some of the old apparel codes left.

**weaselgrrl**

Ahhh the good old days of good recipes. Once they changed over, I went and bought out all the 12-15 charge codes I could find.

This is what I had written on the old boards regarding this...

"Think of it more like priming a pump. You are putting a small amount of water into the pump that will then allow you to pump many gallons for the small initial investment. Eventually you have to re-prime the pump but until then, you get a better return on it. The idea of coding a recipe that will work for a while until you have to recode it fits very well into the whole Matrix theme. Data streams can be tapped and superhuman abilities can be manifested and the very fabric of the Matrix can be bent to the will of the player. Why not create code that uses the very data that is flowing around us to create new items. The argument made it sound like we coders were getting something for nothing. However, that point of view does not factor in the time and effort and $Info investment we make to have those skills.

No matter how you cut it, Coding alone is not going to get you to Level 50. If you look at the $Info it takes to level up coding, and look at the Experience you get for coding things, there is no way that Coding can work as a career path. You MUST be something else. And yet the devs have chosen to 'balance' things by slowing down this secondary skill set? It seems as though the balance-point is randomly set."

I still think that the paltry couple of charges we get out of a code is a bummer. They sprang this change on the community way back when with no discussion.

**DelstarDotstar**

Yes and completely ignored the outcry from Coders. There are still some of the
"more charges" out there in the Recursion Marketplace. I still have several of them
myself