Bio Engineer Archive

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Lahinn wrote:

Hey there guys, I hope this is in the right forum. Ive got a problem with my crafting macro...Ive used the same macro to level up to Tissues 3 with no problem getting the xp when I craft an item. Now that I am trying to craft Broad Spectrum Nutrients with the same macro and changing over the /sel # to the correct item, I can craft the item with no problem but get no xp for it.

Is anyone else having the same problem or am i doing something wrong. Also, I can make Broad Specturm Nutrients without the macro and get the xp next to a crafting station but cant get the same result when I use the macro. Any help would be great

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I'm not taking the high ground, nor trying to dismiss your apparent problems, but:

I'm don't keep track of macros for crafting. I don't remember the syntax for skipping crafting stages when near a crafting station. I know that the new inventory sort causes problems with macro'd schematic selection, but I'm not affected by it.



if you're having problems with crafting:

craft an item manually.

check the results.

start the macro (if that's how you're grinding to master), and check EACH STEP to see whether it differs from your manual crafting results.



macros are basic programming tools. the most frequent problems with their running stem from copy/paste (which can add commands/text that aren't displayed... like spamming chat channels) and from a lack of /pause statements to allow the client to keep sync with the server.

if you're mastering BioE with shortcuts, I advise you to learn the shortcuts on your own. you won't learn the profession, but you may learn the ingame macro system.

now that the holocron craze is over, and the game has changed, any information you might find on the OLD way to macro a profession is likely out of date. the folks in this forum (and others) generally don't look favorably on latecomers who want the easy way to mastery. many of the masters in this forum (and others) dealt with BioE in the early days, when factories were completely unusable, and when pet crafting was in the first iteration of code. call us ancient, call us elitists, call us anything you want... but we're the ones that have put our time in as novices, masters, and all the space in-between.

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Bonestein wrote:

you need to get trained, it sounds like you have reached the max xp points for your level.

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it SOUNDS like the crafting station is the problem, and there's a line or three to add to the macro that will solve it, but see above: I don't know the syntax.

you COULD skip the BSN's and use MNS's, which don't require a crafting station... or you could find the macro problem... or...

lots of options.

when in doubt, see the BioE FAFAQ stickied at the top of the forum.

specifically, your Problem Leveling Up is covered.