| LabAssistant Implant | |
|---|---|
| |
| Information | |
| Type | Implant |
| First Found | Hydroponics Deck |
| Stackable | No |
| Recycleable | Yes, 10 Nanites |
| Transmutative | No |
| Duplicative | No |
| Summon Code | labassistant |
| [Source] | |
The LabAssistantTM is one of the least popular implants that Crigon Manufactory sells, but a core market of graduate students keeps the line afloat.
Notes
- Increases Research skill by 1, burning up 1% of its charge every ten seconds.
- The higher your Maintenance skill, the more charge you can store in it at an Energy Recharging Station.
Strategic Analysis
- Not worth keeping in all the time, swap it in when you find something to research. Unlike the ExperTechTM, this implant's bonus does count towards skill minimums. With a LabAssistant, you can Research items that require a skill of 1, even if you have spent no points on Research skill at all!
- There is a really nice trick to research items even faster when having no Research skill at all. Hold off any researching until you find this implant on Hydro. When you do: plug it in, start the research, and unplug it.
The research will still continue, but with a faster speed, as thought you had Research level 2, not 1!
This is only applicable to items requiring first level of Research.