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I made a new character on a separate account to be my crafter today. So far, he is almost master artisan, and I bought a crafting station of every type and placed in my small generic house to craft at home. I also placed a vendor in the halfway for the things I have already crafted in town at crafting stations. Then I went to craft more armor for the XP/selling and for some reason, while standing next to the right machine, it will not let me experiment on the items. I am using the specialized tool the same as the station, but it skiped the experiment stage for some reason. Anyone else ever had this problem? If you have or know how to fix it, please post here. Thanks.

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ZeusX wrote:
...I bought a crafting station of every type and placed in my small generic house...

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This may be your problem. I have heard (although not personally experienced) that crafting stations have a "zone of effect" that marks the area within which you can experiment. But if the stations are too close together, one zone overrides another. So while you may be closest to your Weapon station, the Food/Chem station next to it has overriden its zone of effect onto the spot you're standing, allowing you to experiment on food or stims, but not a CDEF pistol.

You can try picking up and re-placing the station you want to use (possibly making some other station non-operable), or spread your stations further apart. I've also read that walking to a point inside the station you want to use can allow experimentation.

Thanks for the reply....I decided you were probably correct on this, so I tried this: I picked up all the crafting stations out of my house, and tthen dropped only the one I was planning to use. I then tried to craft/experiment with it, and no luck. I could not get the experiment screen to come up still. So I though maybe my house walls are too small, and it's like I can't see the machine in game, so I picked up the one I was using, ran over to my other LG generic house, and dropped one of the machines. Still no luck in that house either. As you said, though, I for some reason am able to experiment on only one of these stations: The food/chem one. In both the small house and large, the food station seems to work for some reason.

Do u have a med droid out?

Nope, this character doesn't even own a med droid. I tried again in one of the rooms of he big house today when i got home from work.....and it still doesn't work Gonna try buying 1 more crafting station and try those in the house tonight...maybe for some strange reason these are bugged somehow or something. I'll let you all know if it works. Thanks fo all the help guys

buy a new one and place it in your freinsd house, then in your house. If it's still not fixed write a SHORT and sweet CSR ticket and someone will come help you.

Here is what I think I just discovered: The crafting station has to be bought by the charachter that is going to use it. I bought the stations with my main and traded them to the new charac, and he couldn't use those. I took them and destroyed them, then went to the market and bought a new weapon, droid....etc station, and placed that in the house. It worked when I tried to experiment with it. So I was ccrafting on that one and walked my main to the bazaar to uy te other stations I needed. Then went and traded them to the crafter, and once again, they will not work. This may be a bug or it may be that it is just my charac for some reason I guess. SO I am just going to go buy them with the crafter now and see if they will all start to work that way.

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ZeusX wrote:
Here is what I think I just discovered: The crafting station has to be bought by the charachter that is going to use it. I bought the stations with my main and traded them to the new charac, and he couldn't use those. I took them and destroyed them, then went to the market and bought a new weapon, droid....etc station, and placed that in the house. It worked when I tried to experiment with it. So I was ccrafting on that one and walked my main to the bazaar to uy te other stations I needed. Then went and traded them to the crafter, and once again, they will not work. This may be a bug or it may be that it is just my charac for some reason I guess. SO I am just going to go buy them with the crafter now and see if they will all start to work that way.

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I really don't think this is correct. I've never had a problem using any crafting station, no matter who bought it, who placed it, who's house it is in etc.

Well, you're probably right. I Bought new crafting stations of all type with the crafting charac, and they now all seem to work fine. However, I was on the bazaar looking for something and I did come across a really cheap crafting station, and in the description it said "A pre-experimentation crafting station" The ones I bought did not say this, but maybe someone delibrately left this off the description so they could sell them for the same price as the other crafting stations? I don't know, but either way, bug or rip-off lol, i got new ones that work now. Thanks everyone for helping me out