Architect Archive
Thread: Some 8/13 Changes you may or may not have noticed, both good and bad
Second: Tools have Quality Ratings Now!!! OMG! If you look at your crafting tools, personal crafting stations, and (I think) survey tools, they now have some sort of "effectiveness" rating. (Not home to check on the exact wording. I was tipped off to this by my medic neighbor who wanted me to make him a new food crafting tool and crafting station and experiment on them to get the rating up. His was at a dismal negative 12. My structure kit and my personal station (both of which I experimented up and used good materials) had ratings around positive 4. Unfortunately, with the the personal stations borked, I was unable to experiment up better ones for him, as Fluffy could only do structure stuff. However I plan to make all new tools, survey kits, and stations for myself once this bug is fixed and see how high up I can get those numbers. I am guessing they will have something to do with our crit rates.
Third: There's a new lower limit on the output hoppers for the factory. It used to hold a lot, but mine only went to 100 last night. Not sure if that's just me, or....
Fourth: You undoubtedly saw the house item storage limit changes. However, allegedly Holo claims that after this morning's patch items on your vendors won't count against it. If that's the case, then I can still pretty much go on as before. Otherwise I was out of business for all practical purposes. Need to confirm that when the servers come back up.
And last, something that *didn't* change.... still no letter to the architect forum from the devs with answers to our lists of correspondent issues.
Thanks devs!
:-)
I had that same problem with stations not working, so I crafted a new station and didn't change the name of it.
It seems that if the name isn't the original name it won't work... because my structure station, which was unchanged, worked fine.
Crystalis_Jedi wrote:
I had that same problem with stations not working, so I crafted a new station and didn't change the name of it.
It seems that if the name isn't the original name it won't work... because my structure station, which was unchanged, worked fine.
Yes this is correct. Any new stations created work fine.
Also, admins can now drop and pickup items from the house or shop and admins can now use factories.
Anybody noticed that they also Fixed the admin bug for houses? I am not sure about factories, but apparently house admins now -CAN- pick up stuff, drop stuff, and create vendors now!!!
i am all excited now. 
admin functions working!!!!
tell me its not a joke!!!!
I have noticed that your char has to be look right at the crafting station in order to use it. When I put my crafting station in my old house i could be anywhere in the house and use it now i have to be in the same room and facing it. I also have a question for EVERYONE, Has anyone had problems with this........ When you craft a bunch of things in your house and then walk to town and then you go LD and when you finally get your char back on not only is the char back in your house but everything you crafted and all the xp is missing? What about this problem.... you walk into someone's house click on the personal vendor and the game glitches and buys everything in the vendor twice? Well i have had the vendor one only happen once, but the missing items three times in the past week. I never get a responce from a CSR but I do get my items back the next day. I also loose allot of customers over that. It is not my computer cause it does it on every computer but only with my char. Someone please help me and say I am not the only one having these problems. I am really not happy with the "responce time" of these in game CSR's, I was under the concept that there will always be 2 or more CSR's watching every server/planet. Am I wrong about that?
Wappa
Scylla (almost Master architect)
First a bug: Apparently no crafting stations work to allow you to make advanced items except the ones installed in droids.
I crafted 20-30 things using a crafting station in town, as well as the one in my house. It works like it always did before the patch.
Second: Tools have Quality Ratings Now!!!
I noticed this too. Since they fixed it so we could experiment up to 100% on our items now, I remade all my tools and stations. I was able to craft them to 99% effectiveness, which gave them a +14.76 tool effectiveness as opposed to the -4.44 they had before. Now, if only we knew what this affected, hehe.
I checked to see if hopefully they fixed the "Harvesting Mechanism" but no luck there. You'd think this would be the most major issue we have at the moment, next to not having experimentation affect harvesters/buildings/structures.
Make sure your trouble with stations isn't the distance. Pre patch i could "use" it even by being not too near, even from another room of the house. After patch it works BUT i have to be basically touching it, and near facing it too. If i'm just a couple meters far, it won't work any longer.
I believe you will find Survey tools made fromextreamly conductive metals and experimented on for effectiveness reduce the action cost of sampling tremendously. This is not new, it has been true since day 2, just not well known.
JazzmanianDevil wrote:
First a bug: Apparently no crafting stations work to allow you to make advanced items except the ones installed in droids. With my faithful Fluffy by my side (Fluffy is an R2 droid with a structure and furniture crafting module installed) I was able to craft anything. However, standing by my personal crafting station in my house did not work last night. Likewise, my personal Weapon, Droid, and General crafting station didn't work either. I tried using a public one in Dearic with the same lack of results. This tied into the next item:
This doesn't make any sense to me. On the 13th and 14th, I crafted a couple advanced items just fine sitting in my house by my old crafting station that is renamed different than default.
However, on the 13th I tried using my R2 with a general and a structure crafter, and the structure STILL does not work!Why would I see exactly the opposite of Jazz?