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Drashk

Sun Feb 22, 2004 11:03 pm

I appologize if this may seem like me calling someone out on this, but the max functionality rating on the private crafting stations is 45.00. I still hold one of the highest records on Shadowfire for building 43.xx crafting stations. I achieved the 43.xx rating with 98% Control Units, 100% Droid Storage Compartments, 87% Micro Sensors, and 999 Conductive Copper. DSCs have a effect of a total of 5 points on crafting station, so a crafting station made with 0% DSCs and 100% every other part will come out as a 40 rated crafting station. I know for a fact that 45.00 is the max rating on the Private crafting stations and I challenge anyone to prove me wrong by stating the coordinates of the location of their crafting station, theplanet, and which server to find it on.

Stating that a Private Crafting station only brings up X schematics is also incorrect, unless one is trying to use a Generic crafting tool with a Private Crafting station. Private Crafting Stations, ones with a Functionality rating, give access to all craftable schematics regardless of thier Functionality rating. Public Crating Stations, ones without a FR, only give access to Schematics with a Complexity Rating of 25 or less, with the use of a specialized tool.

As to the topic of this Thread - Their isn't a rating Droid Crafting station, due to the Functionality Rating on the Private Crafting Stations was added approximately 2 months after game release. The Droid Crafting Stations were never given a Function Rating to be placed in-line with Private Stations, so it is hard to say what the exact Functionality Rating is. The Mechanism Rating on a Droid Crafting Station does not appear to have an effect on the functionality a the Crafting Station, for the same reason that a FR isn't included, due to the FRs having never been added to the Droid line.

Higher rated crafting stations do have a slight effect on overall Crit Fail rates and higher end successes. A slightly noticable difference can be seen when building Master Quality goods using a 42.xx rated crafting station, as compared to a 15.xx rated station. Higher Complexity schematics tend to have about a 10%better chance of reaching a higher experimenation success rate with the 42.xx rated station over the 15.xx rated station. Droid built crafting stations seem to be rated somewhere between 15.xx and 42.xx, though I have noticed a slight increase on success rates using the very best Private Crafting Stations.

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Puck_Starfire

Mon Feb 23, 2004 12:13 am

#15

Thank you Drashk for clearing that up. I could be wrong. I admit I haven't looked at my station's rating in a long time, but I could swear it was 61. But, that's something to put on my to-do list tonite.

Puck_Starfire

Mon Feb 23, 2004 12:29 am

#16

Ok I'll be the first to call myself a dumbass. I don't usually get so self-defensive but I was sure I was right and I wasn't. The station is +41, not +61.

My bad. Guess my memory isn't what it used to be. <goes to hide in corner>

Drashk

Mon Feb 23, 2004 12:31 am

#17

RasalTheWise wrote:

With all due respect: Being that you're the DE Correspondent, do you think you can get a straight answer from SOE for us on the comparability of Architect crafting stations and DE crafting stations? It sure would be useful to tell customers instead of "I dunno".

I've already put this question out there, but I'm 95% sure that I am correct on this one. As I stated, the Functionality rating wasn't added to the Private Stations until a few months after release. Since most of the Droid issues have gone untouched, it would stand to reason that the Droid Crafting stations would follow suit. I've run a few tests over the months to try and find some correlation between a Droid station and a Private Station but could never find any numbers that could conclusively shine a light one way or another. I have always told my customers that the Droid Crafting Station is at least as good as a 30.xx rated Private Crafting station. Many months back, when 34.xx was the top of the Crafting Station food chain on Shadowfire, I challenged many different crafters, of good standing in the community, to test out one of my droids against my very best Private Crafting Station. Out of about 50 different crafters, who were allconsidered be to the best in thier given profession on SF, approximately15-20% felt that the Droid out performed the Private Station.More than 50%of those that took me up on the challenge stated that no matter the rating, the Droid won hands down simplydue toits mobility.

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Buubahfatt

Mon Feb 23, 2004 5:02 am

#18

I have both types. I use my big one for grinding, and keep all my resources in it's hopper. I use my artoo one for building schematics for my factory, and keeping the materials in it's storage (and the schematics in it's datapad!).

scoutmasterDiamond

Mon Feb 23, 2004 5:46 am

#19

this isnt totally relevant but it too late now...

...i have an private weapon droid general crafting station, and if i use my weapon droid tool, and select chemical, i can experiment on stims and wound packs useing the incorrect station. works well to.

i was about to buy a chem station and thought i would just give it a try.

AXAF

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Loot Hunter, Mercenary, KEEPER OF THE UNPEACE

By_Tor

Mon Feb 23, 2004 9:08 am

#20

On the subject of being by a crafting station and not getting all schematics or not being able to experiement; if there are multiple crafting stations in the same room, they can sometimes "interfere" with each other. Standing inside the station you want to use normally solves the problem, but picking up all other stations except the one you want to use will let you know if that was what was wrong.

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IntoTheGarbage

Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:42 am

#21

Drashk wrote:

When you say that you acheived a rating of 4, what was the Conductivity of the resource being used? It sounds to me like you were using a resource with Conductivity of about 600.

The CU's were pretty high, i don't remeber exactly, but the Conductivity was over 990. It seemed that 4 was a little low.

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Ok, just for the record, my original name was: IntoTheGarbageChuteFlyboy. However the names have since been shortened and my name went from really cool to really confusing.

Thank you for your patience.

IntoTheGarbage

Mon Feb 23, 2004 1:11 pm

#22

Ok, this is a good place to ask this question:

This weekend on Lowca, I crafted two standing crafting stations. (I am a M. Art., M. Arch, and M. DE) I had some very good materials and got it up to 99% both times. However, the stations effective rating was 4.x!!!!

Have they changed the station ratings to make them comparable with Droid stations?

I had a customer wating, he cancelled the deal, and i didn't blame him. How could he trust these stations? Was this a random bug, or was this part of the last publish? Has anyone else made a standing crafting station recently? I have seen no mention of this in the Arch forums.

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Ok, just for the record, my original name was: IntoTheGarbageChuteFlyboy. However the names have since been shortened and my name went from really cool to really confusing.

Thank you for your patience.

Drashk

Mon Feb 23, 2004 1:20 pm

#23

When you say that you acheived a rating of 4, what was the Conductivity of the resource being used? It sounds to me like you were using a resource with Conductivity of about 600.

In order to get the highest rating possible you must use highly experimented Control units, Microsensors, and Droid Storage Compartments. Only worry about the Effectiveness when experimenting. As I stated earlier, 98% Control units, 100% DSCs, 89% Microsensors, and 999 Conductivity Copper will yield a Functionality rating of about 43. (42.61 is one of the highest ratings that I have ever personally seen.)

The rating that you see on a droid station is the Mechanism rating on all Droid parts.

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