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I'm thinking this was one of those "it wasn't broken, but we fixed it anyway" kind of deals. I don't know how this got into the "to fix" list; my overal impression is bleh.

It is nice not to loose any more resources or components, but it was part of the crafting experience. I can't say I will miss it, but there are certainly better tweaks with higher priority.

Success is not sufficient; others must fail.

I personally think that it is a good change. Although, yes, there is not risk any more, losing all those resources got REALLY annoying. Especially when you were crafting valuable composite armor, and you counted on losing 1/4 or your resources to critical failures, even when using tapes, research center, the whole works.

Yes, there should be some risk involved, and there still is when crafting. I think that this risk was a good thing to take out, though.

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c:\>dir c:\star_w~1\charac~1\marsh\*.*
Directory of C:\star_w~1\charac~1\marsh
2/26/2003 04:02 AM 8,622 pi3.exe
6/14/2005 10:38 AM 4,604 forcession.exe
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0 Dir(s) 523,646 bytes free
c:\>pi3.exe
I am the PI3 MINISTER! Oh, and Forcession

Sekundar Lapsus

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i have done armorsmith, weaponsmith, and doctor since nearly the beginning of the game. to me, this isnt that big of an improvement for my needs.

on average, there is a minimum of 4 or 5 total crafting steps for nearly everything i make: one to assemble the ingredients, two or three more to max out one line of experimentation, and one more to use the last of my points in a different line (i am a 12 point crafter). if any of these experiments is not at least a great success, the item is a total loss. whether i lose the whole lot on a critical fail assembly, or get a single moderate success in experimenting, the item is destroyed by me. with my prefessions, the moderate success means the buff pack is now 800 power instead of 900, the armor is 65i% instead of 72%, and the weapon is 350 damage instead of 400. sure, i have the items i made, and did not lose anything, but there is no resale on it now. on occasion, i will give it to a new player, or use it myself, but more often than not, i will just destroy it. i do not like to have crafted items with my name on them in circulation, unless i am sure that they are the best that they can be. i can see the benefit for professions like de, where you have nested custom-made subcomponents that take a lot of time to make up on the spot, or architect / shipwright where you have thousands of resources riding on the assembly, but i dont see the benefit for the professions where every experiment must be perfect.

as far as things like krayt weapons, ris armor, av-21's or other high end items, i usually tell the customer that unless he is willing to suffer the chance of loss of all his parts that he should wait until i have a minute where my stomach is empty, or just before i am logging off, so that i can take whatever food i want with no problems. i then use pyollian cake and bespin port when crafting. in all the tries with food & drink, i have never had less than a great success. i also have never had complaints from the customer. the guy who holding the 125 damage krayt tissues is rather attached to them and is in no hurry to lose them. the one dose of cake & 3 or 4 port is usually offset by whatever tip i get from the customer.

i love it.. for the normal stuff i honestly dont care.. like a power up for example.. but RIS, Av-21's, krayt stuff ext.. its great and yea i have crit failed on a hand crafted R3 Gahh that sucks

as for hurting crafting.. and assmebly tapes.. no way.. you still have a bunch of exp stages to get through soo those tapes still come in handy.

Je'Cy

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Papa- is a BE now.. and when he's mixing DNA he gets crit fails.. and the resources are destroyed!!!!

sucks... everyone gets a free-for-all 'sept him !!

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What alot of people seem to be missing is that in respect of assembly tapes being rendered useless; how many degrees of sucess are between critical fail and amazing sucess? If more amazing sucesses were found would this not but a big bonus? Why do people always seem to find something to whine about?

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