Bio Engineer Archive

I just made Bio-Engin. last night and I'm totaly stoked! This proffesion is the reason why I bought this game (well this a Creat. Hand.).

My question isn't about sampling DNA (thats pretty obvious, plus I've been reading the post for a few weeks). My question is about a crafting macro...

I know that there is a way to create a macro that boots the crafting station and moves through all of the windows ending in the crafting of a particulary device. I saw this on the Droid Engin. forum and I'm curious if anyone knows of such a macro for Bio-Engineers?

Any help on this matter would leave me eternally greatfull..

Thanx, Claw Busal (Kettemoore, novice Bio-engineer, novice Medic; Scout; Pistoleer)

Yes, there is, except that you have to 'click in' the ingredients for them. There have been so many posts on how to do macros, though, that I'm not going to waste my time reiterating the info, and say to you to use the Search function.

no need to be rude...

I've only found one post on how to do them, and that was in the droid engineer forum.

Using the macro below you can create6 micronutrient supplients per minute. Put 4 crafting stations on F1-F4 quickslots. Put the macro in the F5 quickslot. You will have to figure out your own schematic number. Mine is 7. Start with 1, and then go to your datapad (don't sort it) and see which one it selects and count to the right until you get the right number. You should not count any schematics that can not be made by your food/chem tool. Do not use this with a crafting station or it will mess up. During the 6 second pause you have to double click in your own resources.

/ui action toolbarSlot00;
/selectDraftSchematic 7;
/pause 6;
/nextcraftingstage;
/nextcraftingstage;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/pause 4;
/ui action toolbarSlot01;
/selectDraftSchematic 7;
/pause 6;
/nextcraftingstage;
/nextcraftingstage;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/pause 4;
/ui action toolbarSlot02;
/selectDraftSchematic 7;
/pause 6;
/nextcraftingstage;
/nextcraftingstage;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/pause 4;
/ui action toolbarSlot03;
/selectDraftSchematic 7;
/pause 6;
/nextcraftingstage;
/nextcraftingstage;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/pause 4;
/ui action toolbarSlot04;

It wasn't rudeness, it was plain fact - this subject gets covered time and time again...

Here's my macro:

(Do this away from a craft station.)

Put each of four crafting tools in F1, F2, F3 and F4.

Start a craft tool. Type /selectDraftSchematic 000 in and see what you get. Try different numbers til you get Micronutrient Supplements.

For my macros, 007 was my Micronutrient Supplements number. Replace it with your own values.

Brab a bunch of meat and flora and park yourself in a nice quiet spot, and hit F5. When the ingredients screen comes up, hurry up and doubleclick the flora twice and the meat once, and hit ENTER. The macro will finish fore you, and hop to the next craft tool. Each run, you'll need to put in the ingredients and hit ENTER. When you want to stop, just move the F5 macro to another spot (I shift it down one). Otherwise, it'll loop indefinately.

F5 Macro:

/ui action toolbarSlot00 ;
/pause 1 ;
/selectDraftSchematic 007;
/pause 5;
/nextCraftingStage;
/pause 1;
/nextCraftingStage ;
/pause 1 ;
/createPrototype Practice no item ;
/pause 1 ;
/createPrototype Practice no item ;
/pause 2 ;
/ui action toolbarSlot05

F6 Macro:

/ui action toolbarSlot01 ;
/pause 1 ;
/selectDraftSchematic 007;
/pause 5;
/nextCraftingStage;
/pause 1;
/nextCraftingStage ;
/pause 1 ;
/createPrototype Practice no item ;
/pause 1 ;
/createPrototype Practice no item ;
/pause 2 ;
/ui action toolbarSlot06

F7 Macro:

/ui action toolbarSlot02 ;
/pause 1 ;
/selectDraftSchematic 007;
/pause 5;
/nextCraftingStage;
/pause 1;
/nextCraftingStage ;
/pause 1 ;
/createPrototype Practice no item ;
/pause 1 ;
/createPrototype Practice no item ;
/pause 2 ;
/ui action toolbarSlot07

F8 Macro:

/ui action toolbarSlot03 ;
/pause 1 ;
/selectDraftSchematic 007;
/pause 5;
/nextCraftingStage;
/pause 1;
/nextCraftingStage ;
/pause 1 ;
/createPrototype Practice no item ;
/pause 1 ;
/createPrototype Practice no item ;
/pause 2 ;
/ui action toolbarSlot04

Deja vu!

My thanks go out to the both of you...

Really, the crafting macros for any professions are pretty much the same since the process is the same. The only difference is the schematic numbers used from profession to profession.

The schematic number differs from person to person depending on which crafts they know, and whether or not you're near a crafting station of any type.

It also helps to get away to a quiet spot on a planet. I liked the beach chairs in Kedaara/Naboo (nice scenery), or in the basement of the city buildings.

The fewer things (players, pets, creatures) around you, the faster the crafting stations will load, and the shorter you can set the pause times for the macro.

For my grinding I could go to a quiet spot and be able to set the pause to 5 and have 6 crafting tools going simultaneously (making micronutrient supps). In the busy areas like coronet and anchorhead i was lucky to keep 4 running at the same time.

The 6 tools equaled 1260 xp per minute and about 75,000 per hour (you lose some to crit fails). I could never go for more than 30 mins at a time, though.

Oops, that should say 4 second pauses above. Here's my macro:

/ui action toolbarSlot12
/selectDraftSchematic 28
/pause 4
/nextCraftingStage
/nextCraftingStage
/createPrototype no item
/createPrototype no item
/pause 2
/ui action toolbarSlot13
/selectDraftSchematic 28
/pause 4
/nextCraftingStage
/nextCraftingStage
/createPrototype no item
/createPrototype no item
/pause 2
/ui action toolbarSlot14
/selectDraftSchematic 28
/pause 4
/nextCraftingStage
/nextCraftingStage
/createPrototype no item
/createPrototype no item
/pause 2
/ui action toolbarSlot15
/selectDraftSchematic 28
/pause 4
/nextCraftingStage
/nextCraftingStage
/createPrototype no item
/createPrototype no item
/pause 2
/ui action toolbarSlot16
/selectDraftSchematic 28
/pause 4
/nextCraftingStage
/nextCraftingStage
/createPrototype no item
/createPrototype no item
/pause 2
/ui action toolbarSlot17
/selectDraftSchematic 28
/pause 4
/nextCraftingStage
/nextCraftingStage
/createPrototype no item
/createPrototype no item
/pause 2
/ui action toolbarSlot11

About how many resources do you need in your inventory to do this for an hour, in order to reach the 75000 exp per hour?

75,000 xp using micronutrient supps breaks down like this:

In practice mode, each supp is 105 xp, so to reach 75k xp you neet to make 715 supps. 715 supps = 10,725 meat and 25,025 flora.

To master BE you need something like 75,000 meat and 175,000 flora.