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Thread: How to grind your way to Master Droid Engineer

two-tone
Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:26 pm
#66

make sure u have the confirm crafting options promp on in the swg misc options
or it messes up the macro
chromiumTJC
Wed Feb 11, 2004 5:40 am
#67

Well, the macro works great. everything is fine and i gain XP. The problem is, for me, finding the right draft schematic... I am unable to work it out at all. I have tried counting my schematics from left to right as i've been told but the process for the macro finding a schematic seems completely random. The schematic i am trying to make is the mouse droid. For me it is number 52 in my schematics list. If i use 52 though, it will give me the schematic for shores or something. If i try 51 then it will bring up the schematic for cdef carbine... There doesn't seem to be any pattern to this what so ever, as using two numbers which are numerically next to each other brings up shcematics on completly unrelated teirs.

The macro works fine if i want to crafta survival knife though.



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Beauffort
Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:59 pm
#68

Ok whats recommended to grind?

heard MSE droids, see:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=jedi&message.id=267496


just wondering b/c thisturned into a how do I macro craftthread


I'm looking for the quickest way with 3 or less resources...


Thanks,

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Gebetob
Fri Feb 13, 2004 3:20 pm
#69

Can someone post the wps of DE trainers prefferabley corellia or naboo





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Robba_Fett
Sat Feb 14, 2004 3:27 am
#70


ChromiumTJC wrote:


"Well, the macro works great. everything is fine and i gain XP. The problem is, for me, finding the right draft schematic... I am unable to work it out at all."



You also have to take into consideration whether the item'sin the datapad (all) need a Crafting Station,if theyDO and youare not near one or have your crafting droid outthey willNOT be included in the "selectDraftSchematic XXX", so count how many items require a CraftingStation and take them away from thenumber you have.Best idea is too make 2 macros up, one for standing beside a Crafting Station and one for when your not. Hope it helps


Also best thing to grind is Advanced Droid Frame Unit's, 150 Steel/70 Fibreplast in Practice Mode for 462exp a time, 400k steel, 200k Fibreplast and 1 whole day will get you master.


Hope that helps



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Robba_Fett
Sat Feb 14, 2004 3:33 am
#71

......and this is why you may get "allready crafting" text up, if you do try to slow down your macros (increase the pausewhichis just before "selectDraftSchematic..")and see if it helps.



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etisx
Sat Feb 14, 2004 12:29 pm
#72

well i just started to grind DE for the second time. Now that patch 6 as come through looks like there is no power grind for me


seems they have found a way to stop it. It seems to work like this after the first machine in the production line finishes crafting the item. It stops all other crafting machines in the line and you have to wait until the last machine finishes crafting to start again


if anyone knows a way around this or if i have missed anything plz let me know i cant go through grinding droid again without power grinding it


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CMiller
Sat Feb 14, 2004 3:25 pm
#73

I'm trying to use this macro, but it gives me the crafting sessions has ended message every time. I have the right materials and it boots up to the right schematic. Do I have to double click the materials myself? Any help would be appreciated.


/ui action toolbarSlotXX;
/selectDraftSchematic XXX;
/pause X;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/createPrototype Practice noitem;
/pause X;





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Robba_Fett
Sat Feb 14, 2004 3:29 pm
#74

yeah you do mate, no way of getting round it.



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Soha
Sun Feb 15, 2004 7:17 am
#75

I want to compliment you for this great guide AND for not having a hostile attitude towards holo grinders as many other correspondants unfortunately have


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Shalindra
Mon Feb 16, 2004 12:39 pm
#76

I'm new to the crafting biz so I was wondering, do you get full xp for something if your factory makes it for you? I just set up a factory to make my stims but I'm going to get one to make droids if that will help me grind faster through DE....
Gribnitz
Mon Feb 16, 2004 12:42 pm
#77






Shalindra wrote:
I'm new to the crafting biz so I was wondering, do you get full xp for something if your factory makes it for you? I just set up a factory to make my stims but I'm going to get one to make droids if that will help me grind faster through DE....






I thought they took out factory generated exp out completley a long time ago. I never noticed any kind of gain while I was going up the ladders.



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CerionSkydreamer
Tue Feb 17, 2004 2:51 am
#78

For those of you having trouble identifying the schematic number, here's what I do to zero in on the correct schematic.

I count up what I think it should be then open a crafting tool to the first stage. Then I type in chat line /selectDraftSchematic XXX where XXX is the number I think it is. If I'm lucky, the crafting tool then loads the correct schematic. But if I'm wrong, it shows me a different schematic. I then find this different schematic in my datapad and count forward or backward to the schematic I want. I then add or subtract this number to XXX and type the corrected /selectDraftSchematic XXX again. I usually get the schematic I want on this second try. Then I alter my macro to reflect the actual number.

I find this to be much easier than trying to remember if the current number in my macro is crafting station friendly or not.








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