Droid Engineer Archive

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  Any item with a * at the end ofthe entrydenotes that anyparts used in its creation can be of any quality. This would include the Electonic Chips for the Adv Droid Brain, ofa ControlUnit of an Adv Droid Motive System.


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  Any item with a ** at the end of the entry denotes that only the modules, not the components used, must be of quality, where dictated by this this section. IE - The Droid Brain, used in the creation of Combat-Capable Socket Cluster does not have to be of quality, however the Stimpack Dispensor Module does require that it be of quality, since it is listed as such in this Section.

Part1 - Mechanism Quality

Mechanism Quality is the rating associated with all droid components. Mechanism Quaility can range from -15 to +15 and is dependent upon the Experimental Effectiveness line for almost all of the Droid Components. Mechanism Quality is theorized to effect the success rate of a droid build, however with a higher Mechanism Quaility also comes a higher Complexity rating. No definative answer can be found as to what effect the Mechanism Quaility rating does for a Droid Engineer.

Personally, I normally will not bother with the Mechanism Quality rating of a component, unless it also effects another quality, such as the case of the Level based modules. When making factory runs, I will experiment on the schematic item until it has a rating above 0.

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  Adv Droid Brain*


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  Adv Droid Frame Unit


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  Adv Droid Motive System*


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  Droid Brain


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  Droid Motive


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  Droid Sensor


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  Manipulator Arm


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  Manipulator Arm Package Set

All Components have a Mechanism Quality rating listed in the information screen.The Mechanism Quality rating is believed to increase the success rate of a droids crafting process, however I personally have not found this to be the case. The Mechanism Quality rating does not have an effect on how a droid performs, nor does it effect the HAM, damage, or other values listed on the final deed of a droid.

Experimentation on all Droid Components is done on one of two lines - Durability & Effectiveness. All components require 50% CD and 50% OQ materials to aquire the highest quality. Durability currently appears to be a useless line of experimentation and has not shown to have an impact on any aspect of the crafting process. If you are going to experiment on the components, which is not a requirement to produce the 'best droid' Effectiveness is the line to put your points into.

Personally, I tend to avoid experimenting on hand crafted components and use the above mentioned 3 step macro to craft a few parts. When I create factory runs on components, I will experiment on the part until it has a Mechanism Quality rating of 0 or slightly higher. I suggest that you use Bulk resources when producing all components

Part3 - Droid Chassis'

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  Binary Load Lifter ADV Chassis*


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  LE Repair ADV Droid Chassis*


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  Surgical ADV Droid Chassis*


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  R4 ADV Droid Chassis*


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  R3 ADV Droid Chassis*


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  R2 ADV Droid Chassis*


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  Probot ADV Droid Chassis*

Droid Chassis'have three lines of experimentation - Durability, Effectiveness, and Quality. Both Durability and Quality require 50% SR and 50% UT. Effectiveness is listed as being 50% SR and 50% UT, however this is a typo and should be listed as 100% OQforall 7 chassis types. Experimentation of all chasiss types does not appear to have any effect on the overall crafting process, nor does it directly effect the quality of the final build of a droid.

Personally, I tend to not experiment onhand madeChassis', but tend to use as many points asI can on factory run Chassis'. I suggest that you use Bulk resources when producing all droid Chassis'.

Part4 - Personality Chips

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  Prissy Droid Personality Chip*


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  Geeky Droid Personaloity Chip*


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  Stupid Droid Personality Chip*


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  Sarcastic Droid Personality Chip*


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  Slang Droid Personality Chip*


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  Worshipful Droid Personality Chip*

Each of the Personality Chips have two lines of experimentation, Durability and Effectiveness. Durability and Effectivenessepxerimentationare dependent on 50% OQ and 50% CD. Experimentation on either line does not appear to effect any of thePersonality Chips, since the only attribute that is effected is the Mechanism Quality. The quality of the Electronics modules does not appear to matter.

Part 5a - Droid Modules (Non-quality)

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  Category 1 - Cluster Modules




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  Combat-Capable Socket Cluster**


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  General Droid Module Socket Cluster


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  Category 2 - Stardard Modules




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  Droid Repair Module*


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  Effects Module


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  Merchant Barker Module


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  Playback Module*


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  Category 3 - Crafting Station Modules




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  Clothing Droid Crafting Station Module


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  Food Droid Crafting Station Module


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  Structure Droid Crafting Station Module


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  Weapon Droid Crafting Station Module

I broke this area down into 3 parts for ease of explaining. Each of these modules have two lines of experimentation, Durability and Effectiveness. Durability epxerimentation is dependent on 50% OQ and 50% CD for Category 1 and 2 items, where as 50% SR and 50% UT effects it on Category 3 items. 50% OQ and 50% CD effects the experimentation values on Effectiveness for all three Categories. Experimentation on either line does not appear to effect any of the modules in this list, since the only attribute that is effected is the Mechanism Quality.

Personally, I tend to avoid experimenting on hand crafted components and use the above mentioned 3 step macro to craft a few parts. When I create factory runs on these modules, I will experiment on the part until it has a Mechanism Quality rating of 0 or slightly higher. I suggest that you use Bulk resources when producing all components

Part 5b - Droid Modules (Level based)

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  Droid Armor Module*


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  Droid Data Module*


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  Droid Item Storage Module*


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  Droid Medical Module*


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  Droid Structure Maintenance Module*

Each of the Level based modules has a rating that is unique to each module type. Armor has an Armor Module Rating, Item Storage has an Item Storage Rating and so on. This rating is based upon 2 factors - the Level of the module and the success of the Experimentation. Each module has a certain rating range that is dependent on the level. I will go over the level to rating ratio and how each module can be stacked in the next section of this guide.

Experimentation consists of 2 lines for each of these modules - Effectiveness and Durability. As usual, Durability does not appear to have an effect on the modules abilities, or any other factor. Durability experimentation is dependent on 50% OQ and 50% CD for all of the listed modules except for the Armor Modules, which are dependent on 50%UT and 50%SR.50% OQ and 50% CD is the determining factor in Effectiveness experimentation. Experimentation on this line will increase the Mechanism Quality and the module rating.

Generally, experimentation on these modules is only suggested if you are going to stack 2 lower level modules to gain the rating of a higher level module. Once you are able to produce Level 6 modules, or Level 3 Structure Maintenance Modules, there is little benefit of experimentation.

Personally, I tend to avoid experimenting on hand crafted components and use the above mentioned 3 step macro to craft a few parts. When I create factory runs on these modules, I will experiment on the part until it has a Mechanism Quality rating of 0 or slightly higher. I suggest only experimenting on modules that will be stacked.

Part 5c - Droid Modules (High Quality)

• Single Line




• Auto-Repair Module


• Creature Harvester Module


• Detonation Module


• Droid Combat Module*


• Scout Trap Projectile Module


• Double Line




• Stimpack Dispensor Module

Each of these modules are completely dependent on experimentation and the resources used to produce the highest rating possible. All of these modules list 50% OQ and 50% CD as the requirements for both Effectiveness and Durability experimentation. I've broken this list down into Single and Double line experimentation, even though all of the modules have 2 experimentation values, with the exception of the Droid Combat Module which has Misc as a listed experimentation value that is not present in the experimentation window. All of the Single Line entries are 100% dependent on Effectiveness experimentation. All of these parts require the very best resources you can find, in hopes of producig the highest valued droid. All of these modules can also be stacked, in a linear fashion, to produce the maximum rating in a droid. Auto-Repair, Creature Harvester, and Scout Projectile Modules all have a maximum rating of 20 per module. Detonation modules have a max rating of 10 and Combat modules have a max rating of 110.

Stimpack Dispensor Modules are one of the few products that a Droid Engineer can craft that being a 12 point crafter is recommended. Experimentation on both the Effectiveness and Durability lines are needed to produce the best overall rating. Experimentation on the Durablity will result in an increase in the Stim Capacity, with a cap of 100 per module. Experimentation on the Effectiveness will result in an increase in the Stimpack Delivery time, with a maximum rating of 10 per module.

Part6 - Droid Deeds

• Combat Rated




• DZ70 Droid**


• ADV DZ70 Droid**


• LE Repair Droid**


• ADV LE Repair Droid**


• Probot Droid**


• ADV Probot Droid**


• R2 Droid**


• ADV R2 Droid**


• R3 Droid**


• ADV R3 Droid**


• R4 Droid**


• ADV R4 Droid**


• R5 Droid**


• ADV R5 Droid**


• Non-Combat Rated




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  Binary Load Lifter Droid**


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  ADV Binary Load Lifter Droid**


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  MSE Droid**


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  ADV MSE Droid**


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  Power Droid**


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  ADV Power Droid**


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  Protocol Droid**


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  ADV Protocol Droid**


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  Surgical Droid**


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  ADV Surgical Droid**


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  Treadwell Droid**


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  ADV Treadwell Droid**

Droid Deeds have three lines of experimentation - Durability, Effectiveness, and Quality. Both Durability and Quality require 50% SR and 50% UT. Effectiveness requires 100% OQ and appears to be the only experimenation value that will effect a droid. Effectiveness Experimentation is linked to the HAM value of a droid. The above list is broken down into two seperate groups - Combat and non-Combat rated droids.

It is recommended that you use the highest OQ resources when building any of the Combat rated droids. Non-Combat droids have a very small difference between 0% and 100% Effectiveness, so it is suggested that you only use high OQ materials where requested, or if you have a high abundance of materials.

Part7 - Kits

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  Droid Customization Kit*


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  Droid Repair Kit


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  Droid Reconstruction Kit

Droid Customization Kits require 50% OQ and 50% CD for the highest rating, with a maximum of 10 uses. The main crafting window lists Quality as an experimentation value, however Durability is still listed as an experimentation field, during the experimentation process. This field was removed from code, but still shows up in the experimentation window. The quality of the Control Unit and Droid Storage Compartment does not have an effect on the number of charges that a Customization Kit can have.

Droid Repair Kits A-D and Droid Reconstruction Kits A-D require 66% OQ and 33% UT for the Experimental Chargefield and 40% OQ, 20% MA, and 40% CD for Experimental Effectiveness field. Both items benefit from being a 12 point crafter, and require the best resources that you can find. The kit components. listed below, have a major impact on the overall quality of each tool. The advanced components produce the best overall results, even with low quality resources.

Part8 - Kit Components

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  Single Line




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  Capacitor Discharge Unit


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  Adv Capacitor Discharge Unit


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  Redundant Power Supply


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  Adv Redundant Power Supply


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  Repair Unit Casing


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  Adv Repair Unit Casing


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  Unit Delivery Cartridge


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  Adv Unit Delivery Cartridge


• Double Line




• Diagnostic Circuit


• Adv Diagnostic Circuit

Part9 -Misc Items

• Non-Quality Items




• Arakyd Probe Droid*


• Seeker Droid*


• Quality Items




• Droid Storage Compartment


• Interplanetary Survey Droid*

The Arakyd Probe Droid, Seeker Droid, and Interplanetary Survey droid all require resources with 33% OQ, 33% UT, and 33% SR. The Arakyd Probe Droid and Seeker Droids have Durability and Quality listed as experimentation fields, however neither field appears to have an effect on the end result. Interplanetary Survey Droids have Durability, Quality, and Count as the listed experimentation fields. Only Count and Quality appear to effect the final product. Quality experimentation reduces the amount of time that it takes for the droid to report back and the Charge experimentation increases the number of uses of the ISD. ISDs benfit highly from being a 12 point crafter.

Part10 -Non-Droid Engineer Crafted subcomponents

• Artisan Crafted Items - Master Artisan




• Control Unit


• Electronics GP Module


• Electronics Memory Module


• Micro Sensor Suite


• Armorsmith Crafted Items - Personal Armor IV




• Composite Armor Segment


• Musican Crafted Items - Novice Musician




• Dual Wave Synthesizer


• Architect Crafted Items - Buildings 1




• Power Core Unit

This is a list of the non-DE crafted items that you will need to complete your droid crafting process. None of these subcomponents require quality parts, but I'll list the prerequites regaurdless.

The Master Artisan parts, which are required formajority of the Master Level Droids and modules, have two fields of experimentation - Durability and Effectiveness. All of the subcomponents, with the exception of the Micro Sendor Suite, require 100% OQ for Effectiveness and 100% UT for Durability. The Micro Sensor Suite requires 100% UT for Durability and 50% OQ and 50% CD for Effectiveness. Effectiveness experimentation appears to be the only field that seems to have an effect, but only on non-droid components. It isrecommended using bulk resources on all Master Artisan crafted subcomponents.

The Composite Armor Segments, crafted by an Armorsmith with at least Personal Armor IV, are used in Level 5 and 6 Armor modules. Experimentation and Resource qualities do not appear to effect the quality of the Droid Armor modules. It is recommended that you use bulk resources to produce the segments. Don't bother wasting Krayt Segements, or Advanced Composite Segments on these modules.

The Dual Wave Synthesizer is used in the Playback Module. Experimentation and resource qualities do not appear to effect the quality of the Playback Module. It is recommended that you use bulk resources to produce theDual Wave Synthesizer.

The Power Core Unit is used the the Power Droid and Adv Power Droid. Experimentation and Resource qualities do not appear to effect the abilities of the Power Droid. It is recommended that you use bulk resources to produce the Power Cores.

Message Edited by Drashk on 09-19-2004 05:41 AM

This thread is dedicated to Gorantoth for the countless hours that he has devoted to keeping this thread alive.

This list is updated as needed and is meant to supplement the work done by the current correspondant and provide an idea of where this profession currently stands. Please read it over and provide any information you have regarding any of these issues, or any new issues you may have discovered.

In order to keep this thread accurate and up-to-date, please post any comments on matters of concern. I have tried to personally varify each of the bugs or uncertainties on the previous list, but I may have missed something. Many thanks to everyone that has posted on pervious versions of this thread.

With the latest version of this thread, I have decided to completely change how things are listed, in order to give the DEV team a complete run down of every single known issue. The Issues thread will be broken down into seperate sections that deal all aspects of the process.

Section1 deals with all known Droid User issues. These issues include all known droid use issues, from the stand point of a droid owner and the Droid Engineer. This section includes a number of 'improvements' that should be added in order to make the use of droids more intuitive.

Section2 deals with Droid Engineer Schematic Issues. I have broken listed each and every schematic, in order, that a Master Droid Engineer has access to.

Section3 deals with General Droid Engineer Crafting Issues. These Issues include all known Droid Engineer related issues including Mandolorian armor crafting and other droid related schematics.

Section 4 deals with community suggestions and recommendations to help fine tune the DE profession.

• Light Blue signifies all section headings.


• Yellow signifies all sub headings.


• Red signifies all issues entries.


• Violet signifies all Examples.


• Green signifes all items that appear to be working as intended.

Message Edited by Drashk on 07-05-2005 05:31 PM

Message Edited by Drashk on 07-05-2005 01:00 AM

Message Edited by Drashk on 07-05-2005 01:01 AM

Section 5 - The Grind

The following section is included to help assist you with the crafting process and the all mighty grind. Majority of this section was taken from here. And is a good place to look, if you have any questions about the macro.

Reference Link = http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=droid_engineer&message.id=48718

I don't recommend that you simply grind your way through to Master, unless you have done your homework on all of the known issues, or have a Master Droid Engineer around that is willing to show you the ropes. I highly recommend that you take your time and learn about the ins and outs of each box and branch that you gain.

Part1 - Trainer Locations

The following is a list of all known Droid Engineer Trainers. Don't forget that many Player Cities will also have a DE trainer, so ask around your galaxy to find one that may be closer to you.

Naboo
Keren 1627, 2439
Keren 1798, 2578
Keren 1966, 2419
Theed -5463, 3983
Moenia 4654, -4692
Moenia 4794, -5013
Kaadara 5191, 6695
Kaadara 5191, 6695
Kaadara 5128, 6822
Dee'ja Peak 4742, -1260

Corellia
Tyrena -5535, -2669
Tyrena -5661, -2600
Kor Vella -3704, 3059
Coronet City 55, -4451
Bela Vistal 6872, -5416
Doaba Guerfel 3118, 5302

Tatooine
Bestine -1259, -3496
Mos Entha 1420, 3431
Mos Entha 1288, 3391
Mos Espa -3064, 2044
Mos Eisley 3333, -4686

Talus
Dearic 612, -3078
Dearic 612, -3078
Nashal 4290, 5451
Nashal 4290, 5100

Rori
Restuss 5374, 5593
Restuss 5186, 5720
Narmle -5021, -2432

Part2 - The Commands

/ui action toolbarSlotXX; This command calls upon what ever is in the designated toolbar slot. The first row on the tool bar is number 00 to 11. The second row of the tool bar is numbered 12 to 23. You will want to replace XX with the corresponding position on the tool bar. For example if you placed the crafting tool into the top left tool bar slot your first line would read/ui action toolbarSlot00;

/selectDraftSchematic XXX; This command calls upon what ever schematic that you wish to craft. In order to chose the schematic, you must open your datapad and find the tab for draft schematics. Start in the top left corner and begin counting from left to right starting with the number 00. If you are standing near a crafting station, will need to skip all schematics that have a complexity of 21 or higher when making your count, and only include schematics that can be crafted with a W/G/D crafting tool. If you are standing near a Private or Droid crafting station, count each and every schematic that is craftable by a W/G/D crafting tool. Each time that you gain a new level, you will need to recount the draft schematic and enter the new schematic number into the marco

/nextCraftingStage; This command advances the crafting process to the next step. Make sure that you include this command three times or you will lose the resources without gaining any experience.

/createPrototype Practice noitem; This command completes the crafting process. This command also needs to be entered twice for the marco to function correctly. The Practice noitem addition to the command will create the product in practice mode, which gives a slight crafting experience bonus. If you remove Practice noitem from both commands in the macro the item will be placed in your inventory, but you will not recieve the bonus experience.

/pause X; This command sets the amount of time that you need to manually insert the resources to be used in the schematic. The easiest way to enter the resources into the schematic is to double click them. You will want to set the timer according to how many resources are needed. I suggest a /pause 3; for everyone 2 resources. I personally use /pause 2; , but I have some mad double clicking skills.

/pause X; This command places a pause between the end of the crafting session and the next command. Typically, the above listed macro will follow after this command, with the /ui action toolbarSlotXX; altered to advance to the next crafting tool. (Take note of the different color used in this listing.)

Part 3a - Recursive Crafting Macro

Something that you need to keep in mind about this part of the guide - Recursive Macros are going to be changed in the not so distant future. When Recursive Macros are changed, I will be updating this section.
/ui action toolbarSlotXX;
/selectDraftSchematic XXX;
/pause X;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/pause X;

This is the basic crafting macro that is used in for your standard recursive crafting macro. To make this macro recursive, you would need to do one of the following...

• Create more then 1 crafting macro. You could create an indefinte loop with this marco that will keep you crafting for as long as you can double click, by adding additional macros. Here is an example of what you would need to do.

Crafting Macro 1 - Placed in toolbar slot 12
/ui action toolbarSlot00; Calls the 1st crafting tool in your toolbar slot
/selectDraftSchematic 092; Calls the specified schematic (This is only an example schematic number)
/pause 2; Time needed to double click on each resource needed in the schematic. (This is only an example /pause time.)
/nextCraftingStage; Advances the crafting processes automatically after the resources are manually entered into the crafting screen
/nextCraftingStage; See above entry
/nextCraftingStage; See above entry
/createPrototype Practice noitem; This will not produce a crafted item, but will give the XP bonus for crafting.
/createPrototype Practice noitem; If you remove Practice noitem from both lines, you will produce an unexperimented item.
/pause 1; This is added to ensure that each crafting session has time to close before the next session opens. (This is only an example /pause time.)
/ui action toolbarSlot13; This entry will call upon the next crafting macro - Crafting Macro 2

Crafting Macro 2 - Placed in toolbar slot 13
/ui action toolbarSlot01; Calls the 2nd crafting tool in your toolbar slot
/selectDraftSchematic 092;
/pause 2;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/pause 1;
/ui action toolbarSlot14; This entry will call upon the next crafting macro - Crafting Macro 3

Crafting Macro 3 - Placed in toolbar slot 14
/ui action toolbarSlot01; Calls the 3rd crafting tool in your toolbar slot
/selectDraftSchematic 092;
/pause 2;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/pause 1;
/ui action toolbarSlot12; This entry will call upon the next crafting macro - Crafting Macro 1

• Cut and Paste a long line macro each time that you log into your client

/ui action toolbarSlot00; Calls the 1st crafting tool in your toolbar slot
/selectDraftSchematic 092; Calls the specified schematic (This is only an example schematic number)
/pause 2; Time needed to double click on each resource needed in the schematic. (This is only an example /pause time.)
/nextCraftingStage; Advances the crafting processes automatically after the resources are manually entered into the crafting screen
/nextCraftingStage; See above entry
/nextCraftingStage; See above entry
/createPrototype Practice noitem; This will not produce a crafted item, but will give the XP bonus for crafting.
/createPrototype Practice noitem; If you remove Practice noitem from both lines, you will produce an unexperimented item.
/pause 1; This is added to ensure that each crafting session has time to close before the next session opens. (This is only an example /pause time.)

/ui action toolbarSlot01; Calls the 2nd crafting tool in your toolbar slot
/selectDraftSchematic 092;
/pause 2;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/pause 1;

/ui action toolbarSlot02; Calls the 3rd crafting tool in your toolbar slot
/selectDraftSchematic 092;
/pause 2;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/pause 1;

Etc..

Part 3b - The Two-ish Step Crafting Macro

This is the tried and true crafting macro that I now use when ever I need to hand crafted parts that don't require experimentation, or I need a little quick XP. This method is not as fast as the above mentioned macro, but is easier to work with. Using this macro set up allows you to craft and not have to worry about entering the resources in a specified time limit. This is a great set of macros that should be used by anyone that likes to chat as they grind, or has difficulty with lag. It is broken down into two parts

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   Calling up the crafting tool and crafting schematic


2. 
   
   Completing the crafting process.

Macro 1
/ui action toolbarSlotXX;
/selectDraftSchematic XXX;

Macro 2
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;

An alternative to this set up is to remove the /ui action toolbarSlotXX; from Macro 1 and open each crafting tool manualy. This turns the 2 step crafting macro into a 3 step macro, but it also removes the need to clutter up more toolbar slots.

Part4 - What to Grind

As you first gain Novice Droid Engineer, you have a very limited number of items that can be used in the grind. There are a number of paths that can be used to grind DE, but all agree that the MSE grind in the beginning is the only way to gain XP. 1 MSE takes 53 metal and 15 chemical and will net 147 XP in practice mode and 140 XP with a crafted product. At 147 XP each, it will take 327 MSE to make it to your first tier 1 box, or 17331 metal and 4905 chemcial. More than likely, there will be 7 crit fails per 100 items crafted so plan on needing approximatly 19500 metal and 5500 chemcial to make it to the first box. You will want to train Intermediate Droid Blueprints, in order to find the next fastest way to progress.

At Intermediate Droid Blueprints, you can either keep on crafting MSE or you can switch to Manipulator Arm Package Sets. The Manipulator Arm Package Sets require 65 metal, 18 ferrous metal, 60 extrusive ore, and 15 chemical. They net 331 XP while in practice mode and 316 XP while producing an item in your inventory. If you chose the Manipulator Arm Package Sets route, it will take 203 successful builds to make it toExpert Droid Blueprints or approximately 14300 metal, 3960 ferrous metal, 13200 extrusive ore, and 3300 chemical. If you chose to stick with the MSE grind it will take you 458 successful crafting sessions and approximately 26500 metal and 7500 chemcial to advance to the next level. You will want to train Expert Droid Blueprints, in order to find the next fastest way to progress.

At Expert Droid Blueprints, you will want to switch over to Advanced Droid Frame Units which will give you 462 XP in practice mode or 440 XP while crafting an item for your inventory. Each Advanced Droid Frame Unit requires 150 steel and 70 Fiberplast. If you grind out the rest of the profession using Advanced Droid Frame Units you will need to successfully craft 2411 more items or approximately 400k Steel and 186k Fiberplast.

There is one other route that can be followed, but will require a few days of factroy time, parts from a Master Artisan, and specialized resources, but offers 4200 XP per build. I am refering to Bianry Load Lifter ADV Chassis. Due to the resource intensive nature and need for factory run parts, I will only make reference here. You can find out the requirements for it here at SWGCRAFT.COM if you want to find out more information.

Reference Link = http://www.swgcraft.com/skilltree.php?prof=dre

Message Edited by Drashk on 09-27-2004 10:45 AM

Section 8 - Adding it all up

In this section, I will coverhow modules stack up with each other and the formulas that are used to discover what the rating mean to the base consumer.

Part1 - Level Based Module Stacking

Droid Armor, Item Storage, Data Storage, and Medical Modules can be stacked to produce the same rating as a Level 6 module. The following is a chart of how all stackable modules relate to each other

Level Module Stack Medical Items Data Resists
Rating Rating
|1|1 -2|---| 55|1|20|4%|
|2|3 -4|3|65|2|40| 8%|
|3|5 -6|5|75|4|70|12%|
|4|7 -8|7|85 | 6| 110|15%|
|5|9 - 10| 9|100|8| 125|18%|
|6| 11+ |11|110|10| 150|20% |

Two highly experimented Level 3 modules, with a rating of 6, can achieve the same rating as a Level 6 module. The Stacking rating is the target number that you are trying to achieve, when stacking 2 or more modules.

The Structure Maintenance Module, though level based, does not have the ability to stack. Here is a chart on the modules progression

Level Module Rating# of Structures
1 1 -5 3
2 6 - 116
312 - 14 9
- 15 10

Part2 - Linear Module Stacking

Auto Repair Modules, Detonation Modules, Creature Harvest Modules, Combat Modules, Scout Trap Projectile Modules, and Stimpack Dispensor Modules all stack on a linear scale. You need to keep in mind, when stacking these modules, that the listed value on the module is only the rounded down whole number. The Module rating could in fact be 17.5, but will only list as 17. When you stack more then one of the same module in a droid, the hidden 0.xx values will be added together and will sometimes produce values to the next whole number. IE 17.5 + 17.5 = 35 rating.

Auto Repair Module
The Auto Repair Module has a maximum rating of 20 per module. 6 modules can be installed into an Adv R3, to provide 120 points of droid healing, every 10 seconds,to all droids within a 32 meter area.

Detonation Module
The Detonation Module has a maximum rating of 10 per module. When installed into a MSE or Adv MSE, a +10 per module bonus is applied, for a maximum rating of 20 in an MSE and a maximum rating of 40 in an Adv MSE. The MSE droids are the only line of droids that provides such a bonus and is considered to be the most cost effective. A Detontation droid will provide approximatly 175 points of damage per every 1 point of rating. The damage values appear to have a range of 150 to 200 points of damge per point, so 175 points of damage is only an estimate. Detonation Modules produceBlast damage and are effected by AR and resists, as well as the 75% PvP combat reduction. An Adv R3 can produce the biggest bang, with a maximum Detonation rating of 60.

Creature Harvest Module
The Creature Harvest Module has a maximum rating of 20 per module with 120 being the maximum rating in an Adv R3 unit. The Harvest Rating is not a percentage based bonus. An accurate formula has not been presented yet, to determine the bonus that is given from the droid, however it is generally agreed that the following is true.

At Novice Scout, someone with a 100+ rated droid will have an increase of approximately 30%
At 0040 Scout, someone with a 100+ rated droid will have an increase of approximately 20%
At 0020 Ranger, someone with a 100+ rated droid will have an increase of approximately 10%
At Master Ranger, someone with a 100+ rated droid will have an increase of approximately 5%.

What this shows us is that the larger the gap between the rating of the droid and the skill level of the droid user, the higher the percentage of resource returns.

Combat Module
The Combat Module has a maximum Combat Ratting of 110 per module and has an absolute maximum Combat Rating of 600 per droid, only available in an Adv R3 Unit. The Combat Rating formulas are pretty straight forward. Don't forget that you must round down all numbers to the lowest whole number, to get the accurate damage out put.

Scout Trap ProjectileModule
The Scout Trap Projectile Module has a maximum Trapping rating of 20 and 10traps per module, withan absolutemaximum rating of 120 and60 traps, in an Adv R3. Like the Creature Harvest Module, the Trapping rating is not a direct bonus and instead is based upon a comparison of the users skill and the droid rating.

The Stimpack Dispensor Modulehas a theortical maximum of100 Stims / 10 Delivery per module and has a inear stack ratio. The following is a listing of rating per second delievery of the module.

The time thatan Interplanetay SurveyDroid takes to complete its survey is based on this formula 3600 - (27 * Quality) in seconds.

Example An ISD with a Quality rating of 40 will produce a list of resources in 42 minutes. 3600 - 1080 {27*40} = 2520 / 60 seconds = 42 minutes

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