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If the CSR said that then the CSR needs some education.

ALL crafting stations (even public ones) provide for experimentation.

Some things to look for:
1. You must be using a Food/Chem Tool with the Food/Chem station.
2. You must be "close" (whatever that means ) to the station.
3. Your schematic must allow for experimentation. Not all schematics provide the ability to experiment.

The ONLY effect of the "optional" components when we make crafting stations is to (potentially) get higher Functionality Ratings. The "basic" station without any optional components can go from -15 to +15. Adding the optional components can take it (in theory) as high as +45 (or as low as -45).

great...thanks!

If you are in a city with one of the specializations (e.g., Research Center) that impacts experimentation, then it *may* impact the *quality* of your results. There is NOTHING that being in or out of a city will do that will impact your basic ability to do experimentation at all.

Let's help out here. Rather than give you background information, lets just walk through some trouble-shooting:

1. Are you using a Food/Chem *tool* to craft with?

2. Are you standing right next to a Food/Chem *station* in a player house / PA Hall / City Hall / etc (player built structure)?

3. Exactly *what* schematic are you trying that does not give you the ability to experiment?

4. Have you tried other schematics with the same tool and station? If so, what were they?

thanks mikka...

Im using a Food/Chem Crafting tool and standing next to or even inside a Food/Chem station...

...no experimentation on even a stim A...only Stim A & B schematics are allowed...

I ran 400 meters away to use a different station..and can use my same Food/ Chem tool kits and craft stim Ds..and experiment

...I tried 2 accts, 2 character .niether can use this station ...Ive relocated the station to 2 different houses..same error...(only thing that is the same is that both houses are located inside the same town and the station I used successfully isnt..)

....go figure

Don't know what to tell you. Someone else had a similar problem and I think they picked up their station and moved it around in the house and had it work. Also, perhaps pick up any other crafting stations close to that one.

If not, then put in another ticket and/or edit the one you have and hope that you get a smarter CSR.

Here's some food for thought. Do you have more than one crafting station in the room? Crafting stations that overlap cause irritation to crafters. The good rule of thumb is one station per room, and as far as possible from one another (Also, no bags or resources near the station). Do you have a droid with a crafting station customization out? The droid crafting guy doesn't have a problem, but the crafting station is as useful as standing on your front porch. Is the crafting station in a wall? If you move the station to another part of your house, will it work? Have you tried your kit (I'm very glad you confirmed that it is the specialized Food/Chem crafting tool, rather than the generic, or GP,W&D (specialized) tools), on a city station, or one at a house that you have access to?

If you cannot make -That- kit work after going through all of this, get another one, or have a friend use your kit (Friend should be - Medic et al, Artisan, domestic arts branch). It might be bugged (although I honestly have not heard of this happening ... yet). And I can't think of another thing it might be right now.

I've removed everything around it..moved it around the room..into/ out of walls

I've emptied the house of everything...moved it to another house...had someone else (another medic) try to use it...they picked it up and moved it

result...borked...strange huh?...thanks for everyones help!!!..I wrote the CSR an addition to the ticket..(becuase it would suck to have to buy another)

Thanks for the help here...

I had a CSR help me in game...(great service btw...)

and it turned out that the architect that created it simply made a bugged crafting station that had to be deleted..no fault of the architect...I was paid back by the CSR for the loss

Really??? So the crafting station itself was bugged? That just seems weird to me.

Ok - glad you are all fixed up. And now you know more about crafting stations than you'd ever planned on knowing!