Artisan Archive
Thread: Factory Experience is definitely broken now
I don't know when it started, but I watched experience closely last night during some factory runs (of powerups - 10 resources, 20 exp hand crafted). Experience from factory runs is broken in odd ways.
Started factory, stood next to it with ingredients open. Saw resource counts go down and got 1, just one, point of experience. I used to get 2 for each one the factory made.
But worse, I went into my house and sat down. I was 29 feet from the factory. Experience stopped completely. I saw one more tick, then nothing at all for 20 minutes (some of it afk).
Went back out to the factory, looked at status, added some un-necessary power and maint. Eventually I got one more tick, but that is all.
On another run I stood with the ingredients window open, and watched several units get made, but only got one tick (on the first), then no more.
Something has changed! I used to get a consistent 2 ticks /minute (time approximate) anywhere within 1200m or so (max range to town and neaby harvesters).
This isn't a big deal for me, but if it is true for larger items as well it could be significant to some.
Test it yourself and /bug it and do a CSR report. The nerf to 10% was bad enough, but this wipes out factory use completely for exp..
I think you got that experience from something else. I just had my factory build 100 items and didn't get a single point standing right next to it. I built the factory, I made the schematic, I operated the machinery. 0. I used the items, I sold the items and others used them. 0.
I don't care if they never give me experience for making items, but I at least want to get the points when they are used. Looks like I'm gonna be stuck at novice weaponsmith until this is changed. It is just too sad that the only way for a novice artisan class to get decent experience is to stand around building weakitems and throwing them away.
Do the developers ever look at these boards or respond to our problems, or are we just talking to ourselves? I don't need this fixed today, but i'd like to know it has been noticed.