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As a mon cal I have a racial benefit of Structure Assembly +10. Now I cannot test this obviously (cant get rid of that, hehe) BUT, I have noticed many posts complaining about the frequency of Critical Failures either on assemby, or on experimentation. I have to say, I don't seem to have anything like the number of crits others are reporting, in fact last night, just for the heck of it I hand made 7 heavies and experimented each of them all the way (10 exp points in each). I did not get a crit once, and if I recall correctly I had about 5 amazings. I can only guess that Structure Assembly Bonus had something to do with it.

hehe, must just be that I'm using better components and resources than others then

looking through Allakhazam I came across the following regarding 'Skill Modifiers' :

Structure Assembly
Skills Giving this Mod:
Furniture I: Modest +10
Furniture II: Stylish +20
Furniture III: Advanced +20
Furniture IV: Tech +20
Novice Architect +20
Master Architect +10

Notes:
Increases your success rate at crafting structures.

Structure Complexity
Notes:
Increases the complexity of the structures you can craft.

Structure Experimentation
Skills Giving this Mod:
Construction I: Intermediate +10
Construction II: Advanced +20
Construction III: Expert +20
Construction IV: Master +20
Novice Architect +20
Master Architect +10

Notes:
Improves your ability to experiment with crafting structures.

Now at first sight this doesn't appear to tell us much, but if we think about it then maybe it tells us all we need to know.

As we already know, structure experimentation tapes give us additional experimentation points, and if we look into the skills tree and see that each time we get a +structure experimentation we get more experimentation points to use (by climbing the 'Construction' branch). So Structure experimentation +25 gives us 2 additional experimentation points (need 10+ for each extra). - in which case this would be useful to have.

Now following this through, it would follow that structure assembly +25 would give us the same as we get from climbing the 'furniture' branch. So what was that ? Well the above states that it "Increases your success rate at crafting structures", so I would take this to mean less failures. - again, this would make this a useful addition.

So what do we get from structure complexity +25, according to the above it "Increases the complexity of the structures you can craft". What exactly does that mean ? Does it mean, as I believe, that you can make an item with a complexity level somewhat higher than you have so far reached? Strange if it does, but if this is the case then this could only be useful incertain circumstances, e.g. to be able to make'installations 4' harrvesters before you have trained that far up the skill tree (orif you want to drop a skill such as installations 4, but still want to be able to make the structures that skill gave you, in order to get back some skill points).

Bandola this is interesting. I'd like to see what the affects of the +25 structure assembly tape would be. I think its possible that structure assembly might be more valuable to us than structure experimentation.

+XX to struct complexity won't be useful to a master architect. But it may potentally be useful to an architect lower than master.

+XX struct assembly should improve experimentation results, particularly when experimenting on items with low malleability. Steel, almost always has sub-500 mall, so adding to struct assembly should help you significantly with harvs.

+XX struct xp well that might help you overcome a crit fail during experimentation. I usually experiment 2 pts at a time on a harv. If I fail BER 9/12 are all that's possible. With 2 xtra points, it seems like BER 10/13 may still be possible with a fail. That, my friend, would be awesome!

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Pawlin wrote:
Bandola this is interesting. I'd like to see what the affects of the +25 structure assembly tape would be. I think its possible that structure assembly might be more valuable to us than structure experimentation.

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That's my feeling too, I'm hoping to give some full tests this week and upcoming week, the Force willing (and also my ore suppliers providing me a million k of ore).

Padre

I am speculating wildly that Complexity may reduce the effective Complexity of an item during crafting. Which could mean lower failure rate because it's effective Complexity is lower, it produces faster in create stage, or makes the schematic factory production time lower (please let this be the case--sorry did I type that out loud).

Padre

I would like to comment that it was relatively easy to get this triple 25 because so few architects had any interest in these and one of the ones that do has guildmates/city residents that specialize in skill tapes so is getting them that way. I got around +20 in each within the last 3 days. No buyers mean that prices should be lower.

Padre

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PadreBook wrote:
I am speculating wildly that Complexity may reduce the effective Complexity of an item during crafting. Which could mean lower failure rate because it's effective Complexity is lower, it produces faster in create stage, or makes the schematic factory production time lower (please let this be the case--sorry did I type that out loud).

Padre

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Well it doesn't lower the complexity as show on screen during experimentation, but it might effectively lower the complexity for the calulations behind the interface, can't say i've noticed my factory times being reduced, nice thought though.