Armorsmith Archive

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

Canon Fodder - The former Ranger/CH now unplayed Smuggler
Down to one account and thats only because its a station pass
Currently a Droid Commander in City of Villians (really)

~ Armorsmith ~
~ Offers, in my workshop -458, 906 Naboo ~
~ Mandalorian Suit ~
~ Loot Made Armor Stock ~ Normal Armor Stock ~

Factory time seemed to more than double, just by looking at the PSG production rate now. It went from i lbelieve 260 to 528 now. Between this and the fact that they obviously rushed to add ithorian armor. 9 colors, come on. Using the same resources asits counterpartsof normal armor, even uses the same segs,also tells me they rushed to get it in, but i'm not complainin bout that. Wouldn't be surprised if that ended up changin tho eventually. Increased factory times pushed me over the edge tho. Yesterday i made my last run of PSGs and 1 ithorian suit for a friend and then i dropped AS and the rest of my crafting skills. I'm done with crafting altogether. Had to keep merchant tho so i could sell off my current stock and all my crafting stuff. Good luck to the rest of u tho.

Irato

Master Armorsmith/Novice Tailor/Pikeman 4-3-4-4

Former owner of Iraxen Armor, formerly located in Jaxian Bay, Naboo

Its ridiculous for them to "fix" something like this while things that are actually damaging to gameplay are left in. First, they totally destroyed the xp for a factory, and now I have to dump even more credits into my factories to keep them running longer. I don't know what this was damaging, but its "Not Fun" and needs reversed back to what it was. Its already bad enough that I am FORCED to use factory-created items in crafting, now I have to wait way too long before I can even craft.

I can only assume that this is to prevent a flood of Starship related items from hitting the market when JTL goes live. Perhaps there is a worry that the "non-existant database issues" will crop back up again with the influx of items sure to come with JTL, but if thats the case then once again WE are being punished for the short-sightedness of the Game Development team.

Not once, ever, since Beta, have I heard anyone say that "factory times are just too short". Never have I seen a post telling us exactly how factory times are figured. It seems safe to assume that "the Powers that Be" needed a way to reduce database space and found that increasing factory times will reduce the number of new items created in any given week EVEN THOUGH 50 ITEMS IN A CRATE TAKES 1 DATABASE SLOT, BUT 50 HANDCRAFTED ITEMS TAKE 50 SLOTS.

You can rest assured that I can far outstrip a factory when it comes to hand-crafting items, so I'm going to reserve my factories for the things I have to have identical pieces of such as armor layers and segments and advanced droid brains. I can handcraft much, much faster than even the old factory times, the new times just means I'll be able to put some factories away and stop wasting money and power on them.

Lame Dev's, really lame.

Canon Fodder,

Good point, I keep fogetting about the devs wanting to limit the items... but isn't that what the change in vendors was for?

GraySeven,

Unless the Devs have heard the crys of the guys in the JTL Beta, starshipsand their components can not be factory made. I think countermeasures and something else will be able to be factory made... but I for one wouldn't want to be a shipwright based onno factory made components... that would suck, having to spend the majority of my time making components by hand and limiting my time in other aspects of the game. But some people like doing that and they will be rolling in money, my hat off to them.

Doro - Member of the RPG Blood Guard led by Night Rouge
Master Armor Smith (RIS Certified), Master Swordsman, 4-0-1-3 Merchant, 4-0-4-4 Artisan
Come visit my vendors in Cadracet on Talus and in Crimson Valley on Naboo at 7359 -6456.

"A fool perceives the truth to encompass his reality."

I can understand major components for starships not being factory made, and it just makes sense that Chassis...(Man, can we get this changed to Hulls, I mean really, a ship has a Hull and a car has a Chassis) cannot be factory runs based on the sheer amount of resources alone. Can you imagine loading up millions of resources for a 10 or 20 ship run?

However, consumables need to be crateable. Things like missles and chaff and such that are used need to be factory able. And I don't see why smaller components couldn't be factory run.

That being said, it doesn't appear that factory times have increased for all items. The biggest time increase I see is on final combine items. Components still seem to have near the same times, depending on how or if you experiment them.

A run of PSG Mk 3's that initially took 4 days is now going to take over a week, however. Thats just absurd.

I think the manufacture time for my stun layers went down while the comp segments definately increased. I'm not looking forward to the PSG run I had planned.

My question, if the complexity of the item increased, did the experience as well?

Kesstral Mistrider - Sunrunner

-n*Ware- Armor by Desrei:
"When look is everything.. since bugs make it unwearable"
12 pt *RIS* AS
-1584, 178 SOAL Valley, Corellia

~ Armorsmith ~
~ Offers, in my workshop -458, 906 Naboo ~
~ Mandalorian Suit ~
~ Loot Made Armor Stock ~ Normal Armor Stock ~

Another lot trade? I don't think I could manage that unless I bought another account! I think most of us are more concerned with getting the resources and use our lots for harvestors... I know I do. I've already given up one more lot to a factory and that really irked me... but that was for the PSGs I started to make which required a lot of crafted components for the final product.

I think the main thing for me is that I hate transferring cost to the consumer. I try to keep my cost low by getting the resources and things like that. But I'm afraid the the entire community will be seeing a slight increase in prices, but we'll have to wait a couple of weeks to really determine that.

Doro - Member of the RPG Blood Guard led by Night Rouge
Master Armor Smith (RIS Certified), Master Swordsman, 4-0-1-3 Merchant, 4-0-4-4 Artisan
Come visit my vendors in Cadracet on Talus and in Crimson Valley on Naboo at 7359 -6456.

"A fool perceives the truth to encompass his reality."