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Thread: Need some help please with factories and schematics
As the title reads, I need some help. I am a Master Entertainer by day, and Smuggler by night. I have a few "products" that are in demand for my PA and I need to make a crate or 100 
for them.
Not being too familiar with the Artisan line, I figured where better place to ask for help than here. I search the boards a few pages but could not find what I was loking for. I also went to swg Craft, but alas their guides on Factories and Schematics was not done either.
Here is what I know:
- Factories can produce crates of 25 items.
- Production can be done for 100 items (4 Crates) per schematic.
- Factories have a maintence cost and utilizes power resourses.
Here is what I need to know:
- How do I make a schematic? I have heard you have to be by a crafting station to do this, but how to do this eludes me.
- How does the factory work? I mean how do you use it? (Break it down for me).
I know to most of you these are simple noob questions, however any help in this regard would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Trix
Here is what I need to know:
- How do I make a schematic? I have heard you have to be by a crafting station to do this, but how to do this eludes me.
Well If you know how to experiment on an item then your already halfway there.
You need a "Specilized Crafting Tool". Like a Droid Crafting Tool or whatever.
Then stand near the approporate crafting station and use that tool to start going through the item creation.
After any optional experimentation hit the second button instead of the first.
The first is "Create a Prototype" (puts the item in your inventory)
The second is "Create a schematic" (Puts the item in your datapad as a schematic)
The third is "Experiment".
When you finish producing the item it will ask you how big of a run you want to do. Usually 100. This is how many items the factory will create.
- How does the factory work? I mean how do you use it? (Break it down for me).
Ok after you have your schematic then you take enough resources (Has to be the same quality resources as you used to create the schematic) and put them into the "Ingredients Slot" on the factory under "Factory Options"
(Synthetic cloth for example requires 16 Fiberplast and 4 Inert Petro per. So I put 1600 Fiberplast and 400 Inert Petro into the hopper).
Now you need to upload your schematic to the "Schematic Slot" under the "Factory Options".
When you select it a window will appear with all the schematics you have listed in your datapad. (They are used up as you use them so you will have to create more if you want to make another run)
After that just make sure you have the maintenance and power in it. Then under "Factory Options" there will be "Start the Factory" or soemthing like that. Its the first option on the list.
In a few moments (Sometimes takes 30 seconds or so) it will start making the items. The only option you will have under "Factory Options" is to stop the run. You will get an E-Mail sent to you when the factory has finished producing its run.
- Where do I get a factory deed? From an architect?
- Do I need to own a structure to put up a factory? (I don't currently have one.)
- When the factory is not in use, do I still need to pay maintenance? (Like harvs.)
- Can I pick up (re-deed) a factory? (Does it have to have a minimum maint pool in it first, also like harvs?)
Thanks!
-r
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Kambakka@ahazi
- You do not have to own a structure of any sort in order to place a factory.
- When the factory is not in use, it still requires maintenance, but it does not require power.
- Factories can be re-deeded (as all structures can) provided there is a sufficienct maintenance pool.
I don't believe there's a limit to the amount of items that can be contained in a single factory crate. You may see 25 a lot (that's seems to be a magic number regarding synth-cloth sold to Armorsmiths), but I've produced a crate of 40-something building components from my structure factory.