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Thread: So what exactly does this line mean in Pub 9 Patch notes?
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So what exactly does this impact ?
It means no more crafters using non-serialed items to 'extend' the limited use of some schematics. Example for WS: Some Genoshian white cubes came with no serial, if you make the schematic for say a DXR-6b rifle with those, you can use any white cube (no matter what the serial #) in that schematic. At least that is the way I have heard it working.
This also happened with control units,and crafting station schematics.
TheFish72 wrote:
It means no more crafters using non-serialed items to 'extend' the limited use of some schematics. Example for WS: Some Genoshian white cubes came with no serial, if you make the schematic for say a DXR-6b rifle with those, you can use any white cube (no matter what the serial #) in that schematic. At least that is the way I have heard it working.
This also happened with control units,and crafting station schematics.
Dvnce wrote:
This is a fix for non serialized loot that people are using to make full schematics of items..
Ah. Keyword there is "loot". Doesn't affect us then.
well I assume it will fix anything that is suppose to have Identical componants.. so our walls and and structure modules will be ok ...
Ah yes but Crafting station schematics WILL fall into this patch fix.
At present you are able to craft up a schematic for a station using the best of the best EMM's, Control Units, etc to get a high rating.At present, you can then drop the schematic for the station into the factory and use any old EMM & CU (plus the same uber high CD copper) and get the same result. Once this patch goes in, the change will mean thatyou will have to use the same EMMs and CUs as you used to make the schematic.
So yes, the way I read it, we will be affected by this.
Yes it is suppose to be addressing identical items.. I guess I never really looked at stations.. I always assumed I had to use the same subcomponants so always did.. Ill have to check my schematics.. ..
If it is a bug that Stations call for identical peices and people have been getting by with using any old ones then they should get fixed.. but if the scematic calls for similar then it shouldnt change..
In that case it could be as I said earlier that fusions will be affected, the OMU slot does not register the serial number. But this is quite a strange case, because as there is only one of these units used there is of course no NEED for that number for hand-mades,BUT then when you do a factory run the codingI am guessing checks it as for other components, i.e. if a serial number exists on the schematicthen all must be the same in the factory. I suspect this is why the bug exists in the first place.
Now the questions in the back of my mind are:
If they fix it so that fusions require a serial number in the OMU slot in future, will that then alter things so that experimentation comes back? In other words, could the coding here be tied in to experimentation and 'recognising' the OMU properly?
Or is it really eventhe OMU that is the key component? Normally I would think this was the case as this is the experimentable component, BUT a) there is only one of these in the final combine, and b) Solars do not even have a OMU (orLOMU), they do however have a Manuf Mech, of which Fusions have 2, so could the Manuf Mech be the key component?
As of today we cannot experiment the MM, but can anybody recall if these were experimentable before? If so, instead of asking when Solars and Fusions are going to be experimentable, should we actually be asking when MMs are going to be?