Droid Engineer Archive

I'm finding that the magic number of factories for me is four. That's right... four factories. This allows me to keep a constant supply of droids, accessories (batteries and storage compartments), BH droids, and components for the custom orders.

I've managed to make a run of Adv R3s with the 4 crafting stations and schematic/item storage, and right now I'm doing two 99 runs of surgicals and adv r2s with 4 crafting stations and item storage.

I am just a 3/3/3/4 DE right now, and I just started making money (hit 200K) but I find it hard to keep resources on hand. I harvest copper, aluminium, Steel (heavy), fiberplast (heavy), 2x Energy. That only leaves me a Lot for my house and a lot of my Factory. Although I just purchased 75K copper, but I ran out of Gas. Plus Dioxis spawned by my house. I don't think I could possibly give up one of my lots for another factory. I buy things like Polymer and Steel all the time.

But I don't feel I still don't have enough resources. I just loaded up my two vendors Sunday, with as many Medical R2s as I could make. By Sunday I always run out of one of the resources.

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Warrhawk wrote:
I have two factorys and they are always running something. I need two more but then I would have to give up a couple of lots that I need for my harvestors.

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You can use the /transferstructure command to transfer your lots to someone else who you trust. They can add you to the admin list and you can then use your factories/houses and place vendors but conserve your lots for harvesting..

Also you can offer waypoints to people who can place structures there without any artisan skills.... they can put you on the admin list and you can add power/credits etc...

Hope this helps... other than a Merchant Tent, I have 9 free lots for harvesters now.

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Ackis wrote:

I've managed to make a run of Adv R3s with the 4 crafting stations and schematic/item storage, and right now I'm doing two 99 runs of surgicals and adv r2s with 4 crafting stations and item storage.

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99 Surgicals...That is impressive.

I run two equipment factories and one structure factory...and have access to more but I've never used them.

Ive been using a friend's factory untill now. He has surrended his armorsmith skills and redeeded the factory (he gave it to me for free). I havent placed it yet and Im not planning to do it until I hit MDE. In the meanwhile I buy the master artisan crates to a fellow MA. This is working fine for me, as I'm not massproducing yet and I just need a few MA components each day

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I have never needed more than 2 factories. Then again, I am able to log on a couple of times a day, so I can make more efficient 24-hour use of them than most other people.

4 factories would be more convenient, that's for sure, but strictly speaking I don't need that many. I just do stuff in stages.

Though the 1000-unit electronics runs that tie up both of my factories for 33 hours straight are a bit of a pain.