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Ok here is my problem.

I am a Master Architect wearing a structure crafting apron and I am having problems for the last few days making heavy harvesters with a BER-13.

I am using high quality resources and components.The BER of the harvesting mechanism components is 6.I experiment and get the experimental efficiency to 85% but still only get a BER-12.I have the same result making any type of heavy harvester.

I made harvesters last week using the same resources and components (factory crates) and only getting the experimental efficiency to 79% and using the rest of my experimentation points to increase the hopper size and got a BER-13 on those.

What gives?

Anyone else having this problem or got any suggestions?

You say the BER on the mining part is BER 6. But did you experiment it as high as you could? Its not good enough just to get to BER6 on the mining part, you want to experiment it as high as possible.

To get max BER on the harvester you need to get 176% or more when combining the experiment result on the mining part and the final combine. So if your mining part was less than 91% then that 85% wouldn't get you max BER.

Or if you're sure you've experimented the mining part up high then you might want to try making a new schematic, something might be wrong with the existing one.

Also make sure to use lub oil for your chemical, it doesn't have the stats which matter in harvesters so it doesn't count in the equation and you can use any quality.

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I too have experienced a harder than usual time getting Harvestors to BER 13. Components that previously yielded BER 13 Hvy Gas Harvs or Chem harvs now only get me to BER 12. Same resources (more or less) were used. I figured that it was a bug or that I had some how used an inferior batch of Turbo Fluidic Thing-a-ma-bobs. I wonder if something was changed making it harder to get to ber 13 with pre patch components. Hmm.

I will have to try with some new components.

Hadrian Augustus
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Naboo, Flurry Server


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If you look at the CS and In-Live boards, at least the In-Live yesterday, haven't seen if yesterdays thread has been deleted as per normal or not yet, but it sounds like with Pub 14 they tweeked crafting a bit. People are definately having some new problems with crafting. Thinking the devs are quitely playing around with crafting, perhaps trying to fix the Recycler crafting bug they introduced in Pub 13.1 but have yet to publically acknowledge???

Using new sub components (ore miners) I was able to get a run of BER 13 Hvy Harvs running in my factory. I exp'd the miner components to 96% (ber 6). The Harvs were equally exp'd though I dont remember the percentage at the moment.

Resource wise, I use steel with 989 toughness and a chem resource with no toughness quality to be measured.

I am thinking that I may just toss out my older sub components and assume that something changed making them less effective.

Hadrian Augustus
Mayor and Master Architect of Aurora
Naboo, Flurry Server


Catapultam habeo.
Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.

Translation: I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.