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Is there anything i can do to improve my crafting, like food?

Fonas

I haven't personally tried it yet, but am planning on buying some of the brandy that gives + experimentation. I saw someone say they got several amazings during experimentation while eating it. I'll try to give you an update if I can find some.

The drawback is that I'm thinking it will take a bit more time to do your schematics, since if you want to keep eating the food you'll have to wait for your stomach to empty. I can't remember the approx filling on the food offhand.

There is also food that gives you + assembly, but generally the experimentation is more important. Assembly will just help you avoid critical fails, maybe give you better chance at an amazing result on the actual craft. I've already bought some of this, but haven't tried it yet. Probably will tonight.

There's some debate on the effect of crafting stations or tools with a high rating. I use my droid because I haven't found a nice station for sale yet, but it couldn't hurt to have one, so I'll buy one when I find one. The highest rating for a station is around 43.0.

One last thing you could try would be crafting in a city with the Research Center (I think that's right) title. You get bonuses to experimentation while in the city. But there's debate on this also, some people say they get more criticals while in the city. Can't hurt to try, though.

I hope I'm right on this...but doing the math... taking into account the maximum stat #'s you'll see on the Adv Segment and the actual Composite resources (as far as OQ+SR go), the Base Effectiveness, with NO layers, maxes out at 60%. That's 60% with the absolute best resourcesfor the advanced segments and the actual piece of armor with full experimentation for base effectiveness. Again, this is without layers... toss the leftover points into the encumbrance and you'll increase the electricity a little and lower the ham of course.

So that should give you an idea of how your unlayered stacks up. Right now, on Tempest, with the best resources for quite a few months, I can hit 55% Base Effectiveness without layers...toss in 3 Electrical layers (which seem to give the best % increase on Base Effectiveness, while maxing out the Electricity Special Protection), I can hit 68% and still have a point or two leftover for encumbrance experimentation.

Again, that's Tempest...and what I'm experiencing with the best resources that we've seen in a while (based on historical resource statistics kept by a guildmate). This is with no experimentation tapes, Bespin Port or any other kind of enhancement, just straight up vanilla Master Armorsmith.

Tecar hit it on the nose from my experiences with the Port also...I've had awesome success without the Port multiple times in a row so I can't really make a really good judgement on how well it really works. Rooyal, you're also in a Research Center testing the Port...now without the Port and being in a Research Center as opposed to the middle of nowhere with my awesome Clothing/Armor droid, I never really saw a difference with the Research bonus either, but maybe I just didn't test it enough.

But if the Research Center is making avisible difference each time, throwing the Port on top of it, isn't going to be a very good test of the Port alone.

Guys, great information, lets keep this coming!

Thanks alot for all those who contributed.

How about someone get to work on some pricing guidelines?

Fonas Darkmoon