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wanted to get some feedback from the other DEs here, on what your experiences have been in these pre-JTL days


Ive been a master DE for some time now, and always hand make all my droids; I would make parts in the factories to the best experimentation and materials when needed... used both a 42 point craft table, and a nice Supercrafter droid I made...

Never have i seen so many critical failures in my career, especially on Final Assemblies

here's an example...

Today I logged in, and immediately began doing my crafting run to replace sold droids on my vendors.

I decided to put together a few R3 packages, and here's the stats as i remember them all...



Attempted 10 R3 chassis Had 2 critical failures in the assembly of the final chassis

Attempted 3 of my best selling medical combinations Out of the 3, 1 failed on the final assembly

Attempted 4 Combat R3s, 2 of them full combat, 2 of them AutoRepair combos.

Of those, 1 was a failure on final assembly.

The last R3 was to be a full entertainer package, with the 6 entertainer effects....

you guessed it.. critical failure on the final assembly

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This isnt counting the HORRID rate of LOW experimentation results, moderate fails, critical fails, on the experimentations..

These were done at my 42 point crafting station, except for the final, entertainer one, which was done with my droid at a completely different location on another planet.

Also of note: a lot of the parts were from factory crates, which i have been using forever now, made many droids from the same sets of crates. So who knows what the rate of failure on the individual parts would be? I did notice a good amount more fails on the combat cluster modules i had been making to go into the R3s, so I am assuming it would likely have been the same.


I have never seen this many failures, EVER, in my DE career, i mean the rate was just HUGE (my math is horrid, and I know that i didnt describe it all as well as i should have, but i was rather upset by it all as you can imagine, and trying to remember everything that i can heh), and im sure theres someone out there who'd know the approx percentage of failures i had there

But anyhow.. just looking for some feedback here.. Ive noticed that over the past week or so, theres been an increasing amount of this fail rate occurring, and I am curious as to if theres a code going wrong, with all the JTL patches and coding coming in to the game


What are your thoughts? Have YOU seen this type of thing as well?

haha

Well thats what my hopes are, i just wanted to see if anyone else was experiencing the same.. I know from many past MMO experiences that when an expansion is released, there are all KINDS of things that happen to areas of the game that would seem untouched.


Im just settling in to do some more work tonight, and ill see if its any different now.


Thanks for the reply, much appreciated

Message Edited by Jjiaah on 10-26-2004 11:35 PM

Message Edited by Jjiaah on 10-26-2004 11:36 PM

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Jjiaah wrote:

If ya look lower on the front page, and on the next page, you'll find a couple of threads relating to this. However, they specifically are regarding Data Modules which several people are experiencing this same "nerf bat" at the same time that hasn't changed regardless of logging out or waiting etc.

One of them is Crafting Droid Data Module Questions though it seems to not be getting much attention. (not sure why this is... either other people aren't experiencing it - which I know for a fact others are - or it's just not concidered an "issue")

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Take a look at my lastest post on the Centralized Droid Issues Thread. It's one of those...I'm working on it Issues.

Aye I saw that thread, but I thought i would amke this a seperate one, since it was occurring on nearly everything, not just the data modules hehe

Seems to be better tonight so i do think that Drashk was right on his "Crafter Hell Day" theory

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Drashk wrote:

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Jjiaah wrote:

If ya look lower on the front page, and on the next page, you'll find a couple of threads relating to this. However, they specifically are regarding Data Modules which several people are experiencing this same "nerf bat" at the same time that hasn't changed regardless of logging out or waiting etc.

One of them is Crafting Droid Data Module Questions though it seems to not be getting much attention. (not sure why this is... either other people aren't experiencing it - which I know for a fact others are - or it's just not concidered an "issue")

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Take a look at my lastest post on the Centralized Droid Issues Thread. It's one of those...I'm working on it Issues.

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Thank ya Drashk Was more meaning there aren't a ton of folks posting about it, than anything. Glad to know our Voice is on it.

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Drashk wrote:

What it comes down to is that the random numbers generator got stuck on stupid. It happens to even some of the best random number generators. Its what I consider a case of having a 'Crafters Bad Day'.

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Not sure if you all have noticed but it seems that BF does indeed affect my critical failures...

For what it's worth, I can't create more than 10 Heavy BER13 Harvestors without getting at least one critical fail. I know it's not DE related but perhaps crafting is crafting when it comes to those statistics.