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I must have missed this somewhere and I'm sorry for the stupid question. What exactly does the Practice feature do? I've seen the box but I have not used it cuz I don't know what it means.

Thanks in Advance,

Ayala (Starsider)

gives u 5% extra crafting xp but u get no actually product..i e u make nothing cuz u practiced making something notactually madeit

At lower levels its a great advantage as you dont end up with a bag full of bio enhancers, at higher levels its a huge waste of money.

Is it just me? I spent 3hours yesterday doing nothing but crafting and only got about 1.5k xp...at this rate it will take me weeks to get master doctor. I have already reached the master level in all the healing categories and all i have left is the crafting. seems a bit ridiculous that it grants so little xp for so much crafting. Anyone else have this problem?

here is what I did to grind out the last of the med crafting ep, made 23,000 in little under 4 hours. Takes some patients to set it up.

Put 4 chem and food tools in the 1st 4 quick bar slots, then make a macro that uses the first one.

I dont have the commands with me, but I set up a command that allowed me to pick the standard BE with the click of of a hot key.

then I bought the cheepest inorganic I could find in bulk about 5000, and the same for organic. Then I got away from everything that could distract me in town, and all crafting stations. I then started my first macro, added double click each item, then run it as a practice its worth about45ep each. You can grind out 4-5 every minute or so. So you are looking at some ok ep. Just need to grind for a while on it. before you know it you make the lvl!

hope that helps

Balief
Master Doctor

ive looked everywherefor the command you are speaking of... and i cant find it.. id truely appreciate it if you could dig that up for us.

Ok two things

1) If we are talking about speed, then doing the same thing whithout macros, you can actually makea BEC in 7 seconds, since crafting takes 19 seconds you need 4 tools to keep it going. You can crank out about 8-9 per minute. (put your bag with tools in it under the same place on the screen where you select your crafting resourses, and keep your other hand on the >ENTER< key. Double click the tool, and the resoures, enter for everything else )

2) spending 4 hours JUST sitting there doing the same thing over and over .... sucks.

For tediousness yes it is bad, for time spent, weeks to hit master status, pretty quick

I you can get the resources make adv BECs. I did the last box in doc crafting in about 3 hours or so. You can use 4 tools none stop but get 2 times the exp per combind.

If your mouse has some sort of programming software it goes faster if you set left click to double click and right click to enter then set up a macro that opens up your tool and selects the schematic. One left click per resource and 2 or 3right clicks to finish crafting. I'm at work but I'll try to give you the macro I have set up:

/ui action toolbarSlotXX;/selectdraftSchematic 3;/pause 7;

The XX is whatever slot on the toolbar you have your crafting tool in, numbered 00-11 left to right.

You'll have to experiment to find what the schematic number is for you, its different depending on the order you learned schematics. Also the D in draft might be capital.

Repeat thatline oncefor each crafting station you have, changing the toolbarSlot number to correspond to the next tool on your bar. The pause gives you 7 seconds to choose the resources and go through the rest of the crafting screens (if you can't set up your mouse as mentioned above you'll probably need a bit more time). BTW, to save your sanity be sure to turn off the crafting confirmation boxes in your option screen, not sure which tab it is, probably UI.

Choose a slot in the toolbar for the macro itself to sit then at the end of you macro add a /ui action toolbarSlotXX that corresponds to the macro's location. IE toolbarSlot11 if it's in the F12 box. This will make the macro call itself, essentially looping it until you stop it. To stop it you can either create a macrofor the /dump command, put it in the toolbar, and hit it to end the macro loop,or try and remove the crafting macro from the toolbar which will end it after the current run through.

So all told the macro would look like:

/ui action toolbarSlot08;/selectdraftSchematic 3;/pause 7;

/ui action toolbarSlot09;/selectdraftSchematic 3;/pause 7;

/ui action toolbarSlot10;/selectdraftSchematic 3;/pause 7;

/ui action toolbarSlot11;/selectdraftSchematic 3;/pause 7;

/ui action toolbarSlot00

This is assuming your tools are in tool bar slots F9-F12 and your macro is in F1. You'll just need to choose resources and move through 2 more screens using enter.

It's possible to make a macro that just leaves you needing to choose resources then finishes on its own, but using it makes it impossible to practice. So you lose out on the 5% xp bonus plus you have to destroy all the BECs (or whatever you craft) when your inventory fills.

This will save you a lot of clicking but it will still be extremely boring.

Whatever components or pack uses the most resources. I've experiemented all over the medical and artisan trees - every item gives 2xp per point of resource used, near as I can tell. So if the component takes 50 units of total resources, then it'll give 100 xp (110 in practice). It really boils down to which item you can craft the fastest. I got MD on stimpack Es.