Development Cycle Archive

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IlyaMasool wrote:

I heard they changed the schemetic limit back to 1000 on TC.

Still at work so can't confirm this. Anyone here who can?

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To get any decent quantity of stim b produced in a timely fashion takes at least 3 factories. If limited to 100 per schematic, it will severely limit the influx of stim b's into the economy - Stim b is the stim of choice due to the good healing with low med use skill.

With 100 use, I'll be lucky to get 30 stims out of a run. I played with a production run and it took forever. Part of it was the learning curve, but a lot of it was the speed of the factory. It's rather ironic that an automated process using schematics is slower than manually making a similar quantity. Heck I could manually create stims faster, but the quality would vary.

If you are going to limit to 100, then increase the speed of the factory. The database excuse wore thin a long time ago. Why is your database so crappy compared to Everquest's database? The database limiting the fun of the game is baaaaaaad news.

Just from the viewpoint of a Master Weaponsmith, here is why not only 100 limit schematic runs will make the game incredibly UNfun for me, but will create a database nightmare for you.

We all know that 100 schematics will,BEST case scenario, allow somebody to make 9 T21's because of the Blaster Power Handlers needed to make one. Okay, annoying, but bearable. Let's move on.

Most weaponsmiths do not just make T21's or just one of ANY gun. I consider myself a small time weaponsmith, and I just try to keep about 5 of any particular weapon on my vendor at one time, meaning I usually run a schematic of about 10 at a time. If 1 sells out, one comes out of the crate of 10 and goes on the vendor. If all 10 sell out, I run a few more on my schematic, rinse and repeat.

I will usually run 100 Blaster Pistol Barrels, 100 Blaster Rifle Barrels, 100 Projectile Feed Mechanisms, etc, for most of the components needed, because any 1 gun requires 1 of these items. That's fine. I can use one blaster pistol barrel schematic to make 10 different pistols 10 times each. That's reasonable.

Then there come Blaster Power Handlers. With the exception of a Tangle Pistol, every gun I make uses these. Most use several of these. So I run a schematic for 1000 Blaster Power Handlers and over the course of making 10 different weapons 10 times each, I will probably use up at least 500 of these. Every weapon needs a schematic, most of the time the first run doesn't work out. Themore complex the gun, the greater the chance the first attempt won't come out great.The more power handlers used in the gun, the more complex the schematic. Self-fulfilling blaster power handler comsumption nightmare. Right now though, I can still use a total of about 6 schematics to be able to sit down and craft any gun I can make (7 if you include Tangle Pistols and SR82s). Add about 10 more schematics forthe 10 firearms I'm currently making, and you have a full menu for any demands I may have using atotal of 6-7 component schematics, and 10 finished gun schematics for grand sum of 16-17 schematics. And, all it takes to replace something is a quick trip to my factory, juggling some resources, plugging in a schematic, turn it on, and go.

Now limit me to 100. I now have to make a separate schematic for blaster power handlers for every gun I decide to make. You've just doubled the amount of schematics you are storing for my character, which still have identical stats, but different serial #'s. (I don't keep the schematic unless it comes out as good as it can). You've also at least increased the time I have to spend to get the same results 10-fold.Now I have to spend time crafting a new blaster power handler schematic for each weapon, running those, now sifting through all of my schematics to figure out which power handler to run to make more for my Laser Rifles. Then after I've got the power handlers run, I craft new Laser Rifles. Additionally, now I've got leftover power handlers laying around for every different gun, because crates only hold 25, and lets face it, with 25 blaster power handlers, you're lucky to getaperfect Laser Rifle for a schematic. Great .. back to the drawing board. But instead of just being able to use the same Blaster Power Handler schematic that allows me to make basically as many as I want, I have to make a new schematic, and start from scratch .. another day spent just to make the schematics for the power handlers to make a run of a few high quality weapons.

And after spending 6 days constantly running my factory on blaster power handlers and grinding weapons out more than I did getting to Master Weaponsmith justto make 5 of a few different guns ...... the resources shift and every gun I just made is now obsolete. Rinse and repeat ad infinititum.

I'd have to agree with the crafter folks here, do NOT keep the 100 cap. I'd explain all my reasons why, but everyone in this forum has done a heck of a job explaining why to throw that 100 limit out. Kudo's to all for making a strong case. Devs would have to be completely blind to keepit in.