Architect Archive
Thread: Questions about crafting stations
Page 1 of 1
RabidMS
Fri Oct 15, 2004 8:34 am
#1
Hey everyone,
I just hit master architect last weekend on an alt and started gathering resources to build a new shop for a friend last night. I successfully made the shop, but when it came to the crafting stations I ran into some issues. I was trying to build a high FR F/C station for him and I have read that the optional components really increase this, but for the first one I wanted to do just the base for comparison purposes. I was not exceptional quality, but decent quality resources and still I only made a very low FR station (+9 I think it was) -- I was expecting something a bit higher then this, maybe something near +20.
My questions are (some from him):
1) Is it necessary to have a high FR crafting station and what FR should I be shooting for?
2) From the FAQ I gathered that FR had to do with assembly and failures, but with the crap I made I also noticed that some of the most complex schematics that require a private station were not available, is this because of the FR also?
3) Is the droid storage compartment a big increase to FR? I can make the other optional components because I am also master artisan so I plan on including those.
4) Are there any tricks to getting a high FR that you could share with me?
Thanks for your time, I am really enjoying Architect so far although I am very in the dark about some of the tricks to it at this point 
*Sorry for the double post, was accident
Message Edited by RabidMS on 10-15-2004 08:37 AM
RabidMS
Fri Oct 15, 2004 8:35 am
#2
Hey everyone,
I just hit master architect last weekend on an alt and started gathering resources to build a new shop for a friend last night. I successfully made the shop, but when it came to the crafting stations I ran into some issues. I was trying to build a high FR F/C station for him and I have read that the optional components really increase this, but for the first one I wanted to do just the base for comparison purposes. I was not exceptional quality, but decent quality resources and still I only made a very low FR station (+9 I think it was) -- I was expecting something a bit higher then this, maybe something near +20.
My questions are (some from him):
1) Is it necessary to have a high FR crafting station and what FR should I be shooting for?
2) From the FAQ I gathered that FR had to do with assembly and failures, but with the crap I made I also noticed that some of the most complex schematics that require a private station were not available, is this because of the FR also?
3) Is the droid storage compartment a big increase to FR? I can make the other optional components because I am also master artisan so I plan on including those.
4) Are there any tricks to getting a high FR that you could share with me?
Thanks for your time, I am really enjoying Architect so far although I am very in the dark about some of the tricks to it at this point
HalloranElder
Fri Oct 15, 2004 8:47 am
#3
To make the best Crafting station you can, you need to add all the optional components, and they all have to be top quality.
Pawlin
Fri Oct 15, 2004 9:42 am
#4
From the FAQ:
Q-5.5: How do I make a good crafting station? How do I get above 14.xx rating?
A-5.5: To make a crafting station with a high functional rating in the 40's you need to use all the optional components and everything has to be highly experimented with high quality materials. Currently crafting stations use artisan experimentation rather than architect experimentation so you need to have all the artisan experimentation points to get a max rating. The crafting station itself should use 400 of very high conductivity metal (usually copper has high cond.) say around 990 or better. The other 50 units of mineral can be an ore which does not have conductivity and therefore does not count in the formula. All the control unit and micro sensor suite parts use high overall quality and it should be as high as you can get. The droid storage components have to be made by a droid engineer and highly experimented using material with high OQ and conductivity. The control units and micro sensors are master artisan items. So you'll either need to find master artisan and master DE suppliers or attain those skills yourself.
RabidMS wrote:
Hey everyone,
I just hit master architect last weekend on an alt and started gathering resources to build a new shop for a friend last night. I successfully made the shop, but when it came to the crafting stations I ran into some issues. I was trying to build a high FR F/C station for him and I have read that the optional components really increase this, but for the first one I wanted to do just the base for comparison purposes. I was not exceptional quality, but decent quality resources and still I only made a very low FR station (+9 I think it was) -- I was expecting something a bit higher then this, maybe something near +20.
The base station without any components will range from -15 to +15. You can't hit the ideal 15 though and I think that 14.97 is probably the real maximum. The quality of the base station is entirely dependent on the conductivity you use. So if you use 999 conductivity then you can get +14.97 but you probably had 800 conductivity to get that +9 rating.
My questions are (some from him):
1) Is it necessary to have a high FR crafting station and what FR should I be shooting for?
"Necessary?" is up to the user. We don't have a good answer about the impact of the quality rating. You can use one with -14 rating just fine as far as I can see but a +45 might give you better experimentation. SOE says it should impact it, but we just can't see any difference in any testing anyone has done.
The "good" stations are in the +40 range. Above 40 is the generally where the target is for high rating stations. +43 level is very good. Some folks have +45 but we can't make those any more.
2) From the FAQ I gathered that FR had to do with assembly and failures, but with the crap I made I also noticed that some of the most complex schematics that require a private station were not available, is this because of the FR also?
You should be able to see all schematics you have available with any private crafting station. The rating of the station does not impact this at all.
3) Is the droid storage compartment a big increase to FR? I can make the other optional components because I am also master artisan so I plan on including those.
Yes it is important, I believe it accounts for +/- 5 points to the rating.
4) Are there any tricks to getting a high FR that you could share with me?
FAQ entry from top
RabidMS
Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:28 pm
#5
Thanks for the reply, that answers all my questions. You know, I did read the FAQ, but somehow I missed that part or didn't remember it lol.
Page 1 of 1