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I think I need a surveyor as far as equipment goes, correct? Where do I get this?Once I get my minerals I need, do I craft something at those crafting machines I see around town? Also, are there any specific missions for crafters? I suppose not so I'm trying to scratch up money doing some destroy missions to afford some crafting equipment. Sorry for the very basic questions.

theres a post by sabermaster_69 that answers a lot of questions you might have. I'd copy and past my post there, but im lazy. :-)

title is : A bit of advise please...

When you get down to your starter planet you get 2 surveying devices (mineral and flora) and a general crafting tool. No messages or anything, it just appears in your inventory.

My suggestion is to go tooling around with the mineral surveyor and get enough to build a chemical surveyor first. Much of what you'll want to build will need chemicals, so it's a very good thing to get early. After making one of those, you can get the necessary parts for CDEF weapons.

The only money you'll actually need starting off is for insurance/cloning/tipping for training (if that's what you do). Everything you need to craft items you can go into the world and get, no need to buy it. This definitely lends itself to the theory of poor and struggling artist, but hey, it works.

I recommend making guns in a loaction with a lot of hunter types, then sell them off like hotcakes. You get extra exp up to 150% MORE than you got just for crafting it when the item is used, so the more items of yours being used, the more you get out of it. Just my suggestions after a whole 1 total day of playing.

Kordak

Ahazi

Thanks guys. I didn't even realize I had this equipment in my pack starting out. By the names of them, I thought they were food not equipment, haha. How stupid is that? Well, now if only the servers would come back up so I can get going on this. Early morning is my time to play(before wife wakes up) so I'm pretty bummed right now.

how / what kind of xp do your receive when people use your weapons/items. I hadn't heard of this or noticed it before in beta.

well, upto 150% would mean 10-20 more xp. which adds up as people use items you've sold them. I've gone over the requirment for crafting when i was hunting. so it does come in a little bit at a time.

Hey wait. I take that back. It IS food. I did not start off with any equipment at all. Could this be a bug? What should I do? Maybe try and restart another character?

If you are on Tarquinas and Tatooine, I think I have an extra set of tools (depends on rollback or not). I will be more than happy to give them to you n/c, if you do not want to start over.

if you are new and don't have the crafting tool and survey devices, go to the bank. they are in the safety deposit box.

i think this only happens if you do the new player tutorial. otherwise they should be in your inventory.

what if oy ustarted out as a marksman, and then bought the novice artisan skill, how do you get your first crafting items?

If you didn't start out as an artisan, then you need to get your hands on a mineral survey device and maybe a general crafting tool, depending on which profession you started out as. The mineral survey device will allow you to get minerals which you can then use to make more survey devices with your general crafting tool. You probably can get someone to make these for free, especially if they are starting out as well.