Evolution: Battle for Utopia: primary weapon ammo costs

Assault rifle ammo
Produces 40
Biofuel-50
Magmatite-100
Steel-200

Machine gun ammo
Produces 40
Magmatite-250
Steel-250
Crystalite-250

Shotgun ammo
Produces 10
Biofuel-50
Steel-100
Magmatite-200

Evolution: Battle for Utopia - Primary Weapon Discussions

There are three primary weapons types in this game:
Assault Rifle
Machine Gun
Shotgun

Assault Rifle does the least amount of damage of the three weapons (in ideal situations for each), but it makes up for that fact by having relatively cheap ammo costs and a secondary function that slows down an enemy.  This weapon can be used at all ranges, which makes it a pretty good choice for any PvE you might be doing that requires a little more power than your pistol can handle, or your armor for that matter. 

Machine Gun does the second most damage under ideal conditions.  For long range combat, it does the most damage, period.  With high damage and a very large ammo clip, this weapon is my preferred weapon of choice for PvP, as well as PvP defense (whatever weapon you have when you log out is your PvP defense weapon).  There is no secondary function to this weapon, but the sheer fire output is good enough.

Shotgun does the most damage under ideal conditions, but sucks at long range combat.  It does make up for that fact by having a grenade launcher as a secondary function.  This allows people to use their shotgun ammo to compensate for a possible lack of grenades when you need it most.

My opinions:

I have already written a little bit about each, except the shotgun, but I will write it down again.

I use an AR for whenever I am doing some PvE related activities.  Usually I don't need it, but sometimes when I rob the merchant I need that extra dps.  I also take this along when I am doing a PvP Attack (isn't very often) as the secondary function helps a considerable amount.

I use a MG for my PvP defense.  This is because the longer I keep the enemy supressed with my MG fire, the more damage they will take from my partners, as well as partial damage from my MG.  Unless then enemy uses up grenades, they cannot attack while holding up their shield, so I always consider this a win.

I currently don't have a Shotgun, but that is because I don't really see the need for it.  I have seen many PvP defense with the shotgun, and I definitely have to say that it is a force to be reckoned with, but I am always able to kill off the user before they can get too close.  Perhaps it really is a good option for PvP, but using my MG seems a better strategy imo.

Leave a comment if you think the Shotgun is a better weapon, because I want to like it, just don't want to spend the resources for a weapon I probably won't use...ever...

Evolution: Battle for Utopia - Weapon upgrading

There are three things you should think about when upgrading your weapons:

1. Pistols have a different upgrade scheme than primary weapons
2. Weapons are only useful to be upgraded if  you use them
3. Don't scrap your partially upgraded weapons.  You cannot make them again once you scrap them (learned the hard way)

Okay so, lets talk pistols.

They are your main source of damage for low level free players, and can honestly be used even for plowing through level 4 missions without needing medkits if you do it correctly.

Pistols:
max out their damage and ammo at the same time, then their crit chance

why that order?
You want your pistol's max DoT to be higher asap.  The less time you spend reloading, the more damage you are going to do in a shorter period of time.  Once you max out dmg and ammo, then crit chance just adds the icing on the cake.

Primary weapons:
max out their damage, then their crit chance, then their ammo.

why that order?
You want to max out how much damage each bullet does, so you use less of it.  The surefire way for that is to max damage first, then go for the crit damage.  Once those are both maxed, then increase that clip size so you don't have to reload as often.

Evolution: Battle for Utopia - Ammo or Medpack Kits

Since this game is very hard to play if you want to play without any money investment, it makes sense to avoid all items that have a gem cost.

These are something to look back into.  Well....at least for the AR or MG ammo.  The grenade or medkit don't seem like good choices.  Thats just my opinion though so evaluate it for yourself.

From the information I have gathered about this game from the wiki and other sources, AR ammo costs are as follows

produces 40 ammo, costs:
Biofuel - 50
Magmatite - 100
Steel - 200

With the ammo kit, you produce 100 ammo and it costs:
Biofuel - 88
Magmatite - 175
Steel - 350

If you like to burn through your AR ammo, like I often do sometimes, this may be a good solution for you.

Still though, don't buy one of these with gems unless you already have all possible turrets.  You are going to need those later.


TL;DR

Use gems to buy turrets first, then consider these and only buy if you use premium ammo a lot.