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Thread: How do I use schematics?
I figured out how to make a schematic the other night. I made 2, one for a CDEF Pistol that does 25-46 damage and one for a CDEF Rifel that does something like 21-50 damage.
When I experimented, it asked how many I wanted to make (or something like that) and it had a slidebar that went up to 100. Since I did not have that much material left, I set it to 10 for the CDEF Pistol and 20 for the CDEF Rifle. However, neither time did the public crafting place automatically start producing these items for me. Did I do something wrong?
The schematics are in my Datapad, on the Data Tab(where my Waypoints are stored, rather than where the rest of the Schematics are stored). What do I do with them now? I can only examine them from here. It won't let me move them or access them. When I load up my Crafting Tool, I just get the "standard" CDEF Pistol/Rifle schematics, it doesn't load the new ones.
How do I use the schematics?
You need a factory. The number of how many to make (that slider bar 1-100) will not be a factor until you place your schematic into a factory you own or have admin rights with. Sorry looks like you’re going to be crafting each gun by hand until you get a factory.
You need to use one of the Public Crafting Stations... For example, let's say you want to make a CDEF Pistol...
1) Make sure you have the "Weapons, Droid, General Items" crafting tool (NOT the "Generic Crafting Tool" you start out with). This tool is created with the "Generic Crafting Tool" however...
2) Once you have the new crafting tool, find one of the Public Crafting stations of the same name.
3) Once you find a Public Crafting station, simply stand right next to it and use the "Weapons, Droid, General Items" crafting tool in your inventory (just like you normally do).
4) Begin crafting that CDEF Pistol. Eventually a new screen will pop up asking if you want to Experiment on the item. Make your changes (such as increased damage or range) and hit "Run Experiement". It will tell you if you fail or succeed, and how much you succeed by.
5) At this point there will be another option to either make a prototype of the weapon (just like normal) with the "new and improved stats" OR make a Schematic. If you choose Schematic, it doesn't make the item for you, but instead puts the plans for the item (with new and improved stats) into your Datapad. You also need to select how many items (up to 100) this Schematic will be capable of creating.
That's it...
Now as far as what to do with this Schematic, well that is new to me too. From the post above you need to build an appropriate factory and feed the Schematic into that.
Good luck!