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Thread: how did you get your crafting experience
lol actually i cant tell u anymore...
most the master Docs/CM i know leveled with the factory xp at full so afk surveying for a day next to your factory churning out 1000 becs gave u enough xp for the master crafting box...
right now i hear that churning out BECs in practice more is the best way to grind...
only uses 6 org and 6 inorg and gives 36xp with practive...
so go out and buy 3000 org and inorg of cheap quality and grind BECs...
Making and selling Stim-As through Cs and Wound As through Cs. Didn't grind at all.
Strangely enough, I accomplished Master Doc Crafting within hours of completing Med Knowledge and being a Master Doc. Big thanks to Penoc, who was there to train me on all three at once.
If you have to grind, I'd recommend Stim-Bs. They sell like hotcakes, amass xp because of the subcomponents, and can be used by everyone with Nov Medic. A set of 8 to 10 of them will net you like 1500 xp.
Grind stim B's
Don't experiement
Use 3-4 crafting tools
Make 3 of each component then 3 stims.
Rinse and repeat
Put on bazzar for 300cr when pack is full
...Boy that last 100 or so was really boring...
Enjoy.
Elenora you must not know many master docs then. The 10 masters I keep company with from the first 3 weeks on the server all grinded by hand. For me for example ... after I maxed all my med experience skill boxes on day 13 of the server - I went afk and with only 3 hours sleep per night, I did a 2-day grind all manual to go from Advanced to Master Crafting. One more bragging right - I never purchased a single material from the bazaar or another player - i hunted for all my organics and sampled for all my inorganics (did this for 3 days prior to the grind). You all have to remember back in those early days the few architects who could supply deeds for harvesters and factories were back logged severely and only folks who were rich (no doctors I know) would pay their premiums to get these deeds. Harvesters and factories were just rare back then.
However, I do agree that since the proliferation of these deeds many of the newer master docs have recieved significant buffs to CXP from factory usage.
What Kid said. Stim B's have a good xp/resource ratio. Plus, you can sell them after the grind. 
I was done hand crafting before I even had a factory. The 100% factory exp bug wasn't well known and not too many people could actually afford a factory.
Generally, stimpack B's and C's. I did experimenting on them so that they would actually prove USEFUL to someone. I used 3 tools , on the F-keys, F1 for Bio, F2 for Chem, F3 for Liquid, and grinded out enough components for 5 stimpacks. Then from there I grinded out 5 stimpacks, whichever class, and repeated. Since each 5 was a good 1K or so, repeating that process proved quite effective, just grueling. It took me about 2 days, about 7 hours of gameplay each day. =T
I find the best way to get xp is to craft Wound Pack B's.
You craft subcomponents which are easy to make, then whe nyou make the final item, you get 105 crafting xp.
It seems to go a lot faster if you mass produce, it's not so monotonous then.
I did this and crafting did not take long at all
10k roughly per 50 wound packs. 1700 per 50 BEC's, 1700 per CDRM's, 1700 per SDS's....then 5000 for the wound packs, but those are rough estimates, it depends most of the time.
I just hit master doc the other night. THANK god thats over. I was master in all boxes for a long time but the crafting. I had the last two crafting boxes for doc holding me up.
I really wanted to use the factories before to grind out the crafting side. But just as I got my factory they nerfed it. So I was stuck grinding by hand everything.
What I found out for fast grinding was the Infection Amplifier!! God I had thousands of these it seems. I grabbed must have been 12k of Aluminum and 12k or reactive gas. Just sat there with 5 chemical tools going and had the /ui macro below each one/ I would hit the macro - the tool would open and load the schematic. Then I would load the resources and bam them out.
I got fast enough that I could keep 5 going at once.
Why I picked these? They gave me 55 exp a pop. Sure they use more resources but 55 exp was better them the bio exp of what 35 I think it is. I just wanted to be done with crafting for exp!!!! No more ever again!!! EVER! I think a lot of docs that had to grind by hand agree with me. What a burn out to craft like that.
Now I took a day off and came back I can play with all the new master doc things to make. I have been having fun taking my time playing with stim E's and wound packs and all the enhance packs. Trying to see how the advanced components affect what.
Grind it out and get it done with then you can sit back and relax!
http://dynamic6.gamespy.com/~swgcraft/showschem.php?id=infamp
Just in case you wondered takes 14 Al and 14 reactive