Artisan Archive
Thread: Crafting: No way to automate?
Well.. there is something of a stop gap from *everyone* doing it.. namely, the resources. You need the cash first of all to buy the schematic, and the factory, as well as pay the upkeep of the facotry.
Assuming you have no surveying abilities at all, means you have to buy all your materials.. and a factory will eat them pretty fast.
So, the big gap stopping everyone from doing it, is cash, and time. As a Bounty hunter, do you REALLY want to sit within 400m of a factory while it churns out stuff? Can you afford all the upkeep and materials needed? Or would you rather just buy the gun you need from a player for thousands less then you could build it? ..heh.
And yes, right now the economy is funky, to say the least. But, that's because every Tom, **edit**, and Harry are trying to be crafters... give it time, people will tire of the grind and it will settle down a bit, the people that want to commit to it, will keep going, those that don't, will move on and improve their melee and ranged, or medical skills.. or.. whatever.
Thanks for the advice and for the link. Much appreciated!
The fastest way to speed up your crafting, if you haven't already, is to go into your options and uncheck the "Confirm crafting actions" box. You lose the safety net of getting a validation prompt every time, but it speeds things up a bit.
Philomorph wrote:
The fastest way to speed up your crafting, if you haven't already, is to go into your options and uncheck the "Confirm crafting actions" box. You lose the safety net of getting a validation prompt every time, but it speeds things up a bit.
Thank you. That does help.
I gave XUnleashed a try last night. Not perfect, but better. It doens't create "smart" macros, just records the mouse movements and keystrokes, so it will keep crafting until you have a critical failure or fill up your inventory. In practice, this means that as long as you sit and watch, everything goes fine, but if you get up to eat dinner, you come back to find a critical failure occurred two minutes after you left. Still, it is better than having to repeat all those hundreds of clicks by hand.