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so im killing time waiting for the shuttle to arrive just looking around in the Skills Window and i notice in my Experience list i have 4850 pts of "Industrialist" exp. i never seen this before. anyone know if this is a legit thing or just another random weird bug brought to us by SOE.

btw, my current skill sets are NOVICE: artisan, brawler, marksman, scout . . . ELITE: armorsmith, smuggler, weaponsmith . . . and MASTER Artisan.

i checked alot of skill boxes andi didnt see anylisting for "Industrialist:XXXX points" as a requirement for learning.

I believe you get it for using medium/heavy extractors.

I run 3 medium harvestors and dont seem to have any, I was thinking maybe its for using factories (which I havnt before), and as for what the exp is used for perhaps the urban planner profession when it is implemented will use it, or maybe if it is gotten from using heavy harvestors it was left over from an old mining profession.

Factories. My industrialist xp always go up when my factories being run.. I don't have any heavy harvesters, and it doesnt go up when my mediums are going.

You been making extractors off the artisan lvls, they are not giving appropriate xp right now. it should be general crafting xp but they give the industral xp instead. that is used by architects.

The XP you get fro craftign harvesters is Structural XP.

I haven't got any industrial XP at all. I have been using both harvesters and factories so it can't be from that. Maybe it has something to do with having vendors?

It is from factories, owning and operating. I am not sure where the xp goes if you run a manufacturing run in someone else's factory.

Building harvesters gets you structure xp. Vendors give you merchant xp.

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Bermag wrote:

The XP you get fro craftign harvesters is Structural XP.

I haven't got any industrial XP at all. I have been using both harvesters and factories so it can't be from that. Maybe it has something to do with having vendors?

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Yeah, I can confirm it is solely by factories due to the fact that I can literally watch mine increase when my factory is being run, machining parts. Equipment Factory btw - not sure if maybe this is the only one? What type of factories are you running Bermag

This is probably left over from earlier versions of the code. Once upon a time, there were more production related classes; farmer, miner and industrialist. Most of them were removed/consolidated into the artisan and elite artisan skill trees before launch.

Just an FYI I run factories & med harvies and I haven't gotten any of that xp.

Does running factories give you any crafting xps, whether General or Weapon?

I'll have to check on that Industrial XP thing too.

How many times has this popped up?

There used to be an industrialist profession. SOE evidently never removed their experience code.

The industrialist used to be the only profession that could own/run factories. Crafters would go to them with schematics and pay them to run them through.

The experience doesn't do anything now, it's just there. You get it when you run your factory. I have a ton.