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In the last 24 hours I've had about 20 critical failures on experimentation. I'm trying to make crafting stations. I experimented on all of the Master Artisan parts needed, and also experimented on the stations themselves. Even when the experimentation windows listed 0% Risk, I'd get failures. I don't remember it being this bad (last week, for example). The entire night I only had 1 critical failure on assembly.

Has anyone else noticed an increase in experimentation failures, or am I the victim of statistics?

-Renzer

The first thing I'd say is look at the quality of the tools and crafting stations you're using. If they are negative, that could contribute, though the 0% risk box indicates this is likely not the case.

That said, I've been experiencing more failures and 'moderate success' (failure in disguise) than usual. I think they changed how experimentation was handled some time in the past couple weeks. I used to be able to crank out 50 of any given artisan item and experiment it out to max with maybe one failure, now I would probably fail on a dozen of them.

I must say, it makes experimentation more interesting than just "success, success, success, oh hey what do you know, another success!" and I feel proud when I achieve a good result.

Anectodal experience suggests that crafting stations are broken.

It was observed on this thread:
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=architect&message.id=16938

that a better number == WORSE results (more critical failures)


However its also possible that server load and client-side lag & packet loss of all things affect crafting. It really feels like rubber-chicken science, and it just might be.


If you are getting many critical failures try these:
1) make sure if you have a droid with a crafting module that he's put away unless he's the one you're crafting on
2) leave the house and re-enter (or store/call droid)
3) stop crafting for a while and try later (might be server or database load)