Bio Engineer Archive

I assume that this is well known (I probably knew and have forgotten) but I've been grinding xp lately and have done some experiments. While we get 150% usage xp if our items are used by someone else while we are logged in, we get NO usage xp if we are not logged in at the time. My wife is just ecstatic that I'm leaving my character logged in for hours on end as I farm out tissues to tailors to use...

Good catch, Scorus. I'm not sure how widely known this is, actually, as many don't mess too much with tissues at pre-master levels (or as in my case had hit master long before tissues were worth making).

Hopefully someone will take notice. Have you /bug'd this in-game yet?

Usage Xp (of all kinds) is supposed to show up eventually, logged in or not. Holo once mentioned it is low priority for the server and could take several hours to show up.

To my knowledge, I ahve never gotten any usage Xp out of any profession, even standing next to the person using the item... since the game went live.

Some people do seem to get it though. The problem does not seem to be profession specific.

-T

I have /bugged it but Talthazar needs to bring it up. It is the difference between getting 130 and 325 xp for the same amount of work.

Traigus: The problem may not be profession specific but I do believe it works as I described. I've very closely tracked my xp over the last week, I've worked closely with 4 different tailors where they used my items both in my presence and not, both when I was logged in and not. I always got 150% usage xp when I was logged in (even afk) and never got it when I wasn't, even belatedly. And this was in volumes that I could not have missed, each of those tailors had bags of 50 tissues to use. In one case the guy used all 50 when I was logged off and I got nothing, I wouldn't have missed that almost 10K xp if it had appeared a couple of days later. In other cases I've asked them to use 1 or 5 and I got nothing. It is possible that a tailor lied to me about using it, but highly unlikely that all four did. One used 50 Scent Camouflage in a sitting while I was afk and I got the full 9750 (which was awfully sweet, I tell you!). I have also done a couple of tests with chef components, but I only know one chef and she works in very small quantities. Those tests were consistent with what I found for the tailors, however.

At the end of beta, Holocron reformulated usage xp. Some types of items got none, some got a small percentage, some got a very large percentage. In general, it is the various components in the game that give usage xp to one degree or another.