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I have just gotten to Eng II and was looking forward to making some of the new schematics that I now have at my disposal. Since I am gearing toward Droid Engineer I was going to make a Droid repair kit. This is the first item I have come across that has optional ingredients in the recipe to create. Of course I enjoy practicing on experments and I want to make the best items I can to hopefully build a reputation in game for creating quality products(since I put my name on all my creations). Well I look in inventory and I do not have the schematics to build the optional components, which are things like power cells, etc. I went to a droid specific crafting station and used my droid and general weapon crafting tool thinking I would get the schematics that way. Still no luck. Does this mean that I am not high enough on the Eng ladder to get the ability to make these optional components and I will have to buy or trade for them until i get higher up or am I missing something? Thx in adv for the help.

Iarwain Ben-Adar

Novice Artisan

dont bother ur rather useless till atleast 3 ithink when u can make havesters. u get more exp. points the higher u are in eng. i have 8 pnts at lvl 4 so with high quality materials my bonus is way better than wut you do and i never got any good returns in exper. at lowerlvls except fireworks i made more of em per batch. Make weapon/melee powerups and destroy them . I know its a grind but unless u can get a bunch of people to use lower use powerups not going to get exp. I've found now that i am a miner / crafter/ i had to get pistols to do kill missions for cash to keep eveything running hence build urself a few good guns and powerup and roll out on missions after u get ur harvesters going. Or just buy the raw materials surveying is too slow u can make enough money to keep 3 mills/7 harvesters going at once a few hrs a day doing missions. but u have to unequip ur pistol when u get missions or ur get the ones at lvl or expertise. gl. keep a map of your good mineral surveys in ur data pad for later reference for diff. places of high concentrations of ur materials.

The repair kits all need optional components to create, but unfortunately you won't be able to make those components until you climb the ladder into an advanced career. The Droid Storage Unit schematic is given to you when you get to the first level of Droid Engineer. As far as the other two, I'm not sure which class gets them, or what level you need to be to create them.

So in short, you won't be able to make any of the repair kits until you're in an advanced class. If you can find them in the bazaar, I'd pick them up (if they're cheap).

Thanks for the reply, I was right then, Oh well back to the grind

IarwainBen-Adar

One way to relieve the grind is to try selling the items you can make through the bazaar. You have 25 slots, and at 20cr an auction its not terribly expensive. You still need to do a lot of grinding to get through the base disciplines, but it can be fun trying to find a product, price, and location that you can sell at. Since a crafter doesnt need much money, you can meet your travel needs with even a modest income.

I never got rich selling the simple items through the bazaar, but it was interesting and fun and broke up the grind a little.

Regards,

Artuk

I am on my way to weaponsmith butI have hit a little snag and i have a question. I just made engineering III, why cant i make deeds for the harvesters. It says that i can but the only one that i have a schematic for is a wind generator. Do i have to have more surveying or something like that. Is it like a medics stimpack C that cant be used unless you have other medic skills. Someone please help.

You need to craft a structure crafting tool and use that to make the harvesters.

see i knew there would be an easy answer. Well....no one ever said i was quick right?

Thanksb

simply put NO you need to fill all the boxes first