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How much crafting exp or what time of exp do I receive when a item I made is used by someone else? I have asked around and have received no definate answer.

good question... i've alwys heard of usage XP... and i've even seen my little yellow xp bars go up a notch for no reason... but i dont know how it's calculated.

I got usage xp while I was running around and qualified for new profesions

Well after a week of playing I think I finally found the best thing to use for crafting. At first I was grinding out a bunch of junk to raise my exp. Then for some reason I chose to grab the scout profession. I then stareted to create traps. Well I went up two slots in no time at all. I use alot of traps so I dont really consider it grinding. Ill make about 20 traps then go out and hunt for a while taking missions to pay for my extractors.

It has been my observation that you make XP = Resources X 2

IE: If it takes 10 Hide and 10 Fiberplast to make a shirt, you get 40 XP for it (20 resources X 2)

I am told that you can double that XP (over time) if someone other than you uses your shirt. (total 80XP from the shirt) I am not sure about that however, and I have no idea what the time is on getting that XP, but I DO know that I get XP dribbeling in while I am sitting doing nothing, and even when I am offline, and I assume that it is because of the Items that I have sold to others.

From what I've read and seen a little myself you get a fraction of the xp it took to make a item if someone uses it. I'm not sure if that is on every item that can be made or not. I know for stuff like weapons and armor the crafter gets some xp back as "usage xp". As for stimpacks, traps, etc. I'm not sure about. Stimpacks may give a little organic chem xp. I seemed to have went through the first 3 organic chem professions quickly just from general use of stimpacks and selling them on the market. I suspect the usage xp goes into the general xp category.

T

think I just made the water more muddy instead of clear

An example would be

150 xp to make a item and then you also get up to 100 xp when the item is used. I read that somewhere on one of the boards.