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Thread: Factory Help! wamba?

CruelIntentions
Wed May 05, 2004 4:02 pm
#1

Hey all you DE's, I am new to the whole DE world and wanting to jump right in and have fun with this profession. I have heard it mentioned a couple times about using factories to pump out certain droid components or components needed for droid manufacturing.


Any chance someone can enlighten me on when a DE would need factories and what they would be good for. Or atleast what different opportunites a DE has with factories and options for factories?


Thanks,
Anruan
Wed May 05, 2004 4:29 pm
#2




Factories are really useful if you are planning on selling a lot of droids. You could get away with not using them most of the time if you are just going to craft droids based on custom orders instead of trying to keep droids stocked in a vendor. However, there are a handful of components/droids that require factory components (components that are identical):


- Advanced Droid Brain: requires 4 identical GP modules and 4 identical Memory modules


- R3 and Advanced R3 chassis: requires 2 identical advanced droid brains


- Binary Load Lifter and Advanced Binary Load Lifter Chassis: requires 2 identical Manipulator Arms and 6 identical Advanced Droid Motive Systems


I personally rely heavily onfactories. Theymake all of my Master Artisan components (e.g. GP modules, control units, memory modules), all of my base droid components (e.g. food crafting module, motive system), and items where experimentation matters (e.g. droid batteries, droid customization kits). I usually do the final assembly of a droid by hand, with the exception of Arakyds and Seekers.


-anruan


_KernMist
Thu May 06, 2004 5:24 am
#3

Factories are without a doubt a neccesity for DE's. I always have2 factories outside my front door churning out electonics modules, but have had to go up to 4 or 5 factories in order to get things done in time.


Factory produced components take up so many of a droids requirements in some form or another that you should get at least 1 factory, but I recommend 2 in order to make sure you can pump out Electonic GPs and Electonic Memory modules at a good rate.



Wracca
Master Droid Engineer
Wracca's Palace of Droid Love, Mos Espa, Tatooine, Chimaera

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starcraftWS
Thu May 06, 2004 5:34 am
#4

Some more DE factory information...



  • Equipment Factories are used for the majority of our subcomponents. If you have the skills to make Composite Armor Segments (used in higher levels of Droid Armor)and/or Power Core Units (used in Power Droids), these would useWearables and/or Structure factories respectively.

  • The Dual Wave Synthesizers, that are made by Musicians, can be mass-produced in an Equipment Factory if you have a schematic

  • Factories can store 100 items in their input bins, and 100 items in the output bins. You can freely exchange items to/from the input bin. But once you take an item out of the output bin it must be used or stored elsewhere as you can't manually put items in the output bin.




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Asteroids
Fri May 07, 2004 12:53 am
#5

I find the output hopper size to be a bit 'wonkey' in that its not 100. I tend to get error messages if I try a 1000 item run.
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