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I know that you can experiment on items for xp???? But, what does this mean? CAn someone please explain the details of this in a way that is understandable to somebody with very little artisan knowledge??

Thanks, Anor

ps I know that

http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/content.jsp?page=Advanced%20Guide%20Crafting

One of the best guides, written by the guy who designed it all. :-)

That guide will get you through how to experiment and what it does. But if you're under the impression that experimentation gets you more xp, that's not right. You get the same xp for an unexperimented item made from bantha poodoo as one you build from top-quality resources and use all your experimentation points.

Actually isnt the xp determined by the complexity of the item?

In which case an experimented item _will_ give more xp because experimentation increases the complexity

I think it used to be based on complexity byt nowdays it is dependent on resource use.
For the fastest artisan xp you should therefore make personal harvesters

I don't think exp has ever been based on complexity, but I ahve only been playing since July 5th. It is now based on the units ofresources used.

When using the practice button, your exp is increased by approx 5%.

Experimenting has nothing whatsoever to do with experience.

Experimenting is all about making the best items you can with the materials you're working with. Basically, as you experiment, you can make the item better and better, at a cost of complexity and the chance of failure (making the item worse).

The best place to go is the 'Advanced Guides' section of the official website. There's an article there about crafting and experimentation that's really quite detailed.