Coops, for the Fragment AMR's... this is the point where you don your sunglasses to protect from the blinding dazzle of my ignorance.... could a fourth "certificate" be the presence of the booster device? And feel free to whack me with your sunglasses. I'm asking this knowing the code is probably not amenable to that, and it's probably a bad idea, but I feel it should at least be asked.
I have to preface this with the fact that I don't use fragment refineries, since I don't have certificates yet. But, I thought the three certificates boosted the ground-based fragment refineries as well?
The only other kludge I can think of, and you may want to don your ignorance-blockers again, would be the device modifies the output (of the fragment AMR) from "1 unit of XX Ore" to "1 unit of XX Ore + ## units of XX Fragment", with the fragments going back into the ore store. The number ## wold not be a percentage, but a set number, say x1 or x2 the increment number of the booster unit. So, say you are running a Moolite AMR that refines 187 units of Moolite Fragments (because of your certs) into 1 unit of Moolite. You equip a S-A.I.N.T. Engine Mark 3. We are going to say for now that ## is double the increment number. That means that when your Moolite AMR consumes 187 units of Moolite Fragments, it now generates 1 unit of Moolite Ore *AND* puts 6 units of Moolite Fragments back into the orbital store. The fragment AMR makes the ore, but "has some bits left over", and those go back in the hopper. It is the *functional equivalent* of a boost in the end, but not quite (you still need the original 187 units to make the cycle start, not the effective 181 units). It would also completely separate the bonus from the certificates from the bonus from the booster device. If I were to get a similar Moolite AMR for myself, having no certifications as I said, I would need 200 units of Moolite Fragments to get the 1 unit of Moolite Ore. If I also equipped the same S-A.I.N.T Engine Mark 3, I would also get 6 Moolite Fragments back. I would still need 200 to start the cycle.
I don't know if that idea is helpful, or possible, or even well articulated. It would function as a bonus, because if you dropped a large pile of fragments, it would slowly self-replenish making more Ore units in the long-run. [EDIT: Actually, doing it like this would preserve the benefit from being certed-up. You have fewer units going in, getting the same bonus in return as someone without certs.]
For me, I would get one of these for my Staffium AMR's, but I know the fragment refineries are the in-demand thing for the high level players right now.
I also still think it should be called the The S-A.I.N.T., Sans-Alchemical Industrial Nanotech Treatment, POD, or S-A.I.N.T Engine.
Thank you for your time.