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Thread: [TEST RESULTS] Lightsaber Crafting trinket
Nerdcore wrote:did you look at the screenshots? it says right on it "guaranteed critical assembly".It's either a success or failure, or the devs mis-typed it like they have done on so many other numerous items.
I WON one. I know exactly what it does not say.
Two attempts resulted in 1 lost charge on the tool (down to 19).
Similarly, I got identical results with the prize tool as with my regular 15.0 rated LS crafting tool.
I used the same resources, and experimented the same way. Was in a reasearch center, and tried 1 attempt using food, and one using no food iwth the new tool. Used food with the regular tool. Also had M Saber.
Geno.
If it does not work, please /bug it so we can get some Dev feedback on this.
Theodis_Darkstar wrote:
If you received the Lightsaber crafting toolkit in Phase 2 and used it, please post your results. So far it appears to do nothing beneficial beyond what a normal tool could do.
If it does not work, please /bug it so we can get some Dev feedback on this.
Ehric wrote:
I used the same resources on all four sabers. All attempts were made with the same crafting station in a research center.
Saber one -my own crafting tool, great success on assembly
Saber two - reward crafting tool, amazing succes on assembly, pyollian cake, did not count against the 20 assemblies
Saber three - reward crafting tool, amazing success on assembly, pyollian cake
Saber four - reward crafting tool, amazing success on assembly, no pyollian cake
I thought just maybe the assembly food was affecting what the reward was supposed to do, which is why I tried that last time. I wouldn't think a failed assembly would count against the 20 anyway, but who knows.
In all cases, stats at assembly were the same, and they experimented the same way. The only difference was in the serial number of the finished product.
An amzing success is not the same as a criticle success. If you are not getting Criticle success then the tool is not working as described. An amazing success only starts the object out at a higher %, say 21% instead of the normal 18% you normally start with before experimentation. A criticle assembly will allow you to go beyond the hard caps of your resources and you can experiment it to a much higher % than is normally achievable given the same resoruces(similar to the one day crafting patch).
But I guess my main point here is that an "Amazing Success" is not a "Criticle Success" and therefore the tool would appear to be broken or bugged or what ever term you would like to use for it. It is not acting as it was designed to(based on it's description).
jason67 wrote:
A criticle assembly will allow you to go beyond the hard caps of your resources and you can experiment it to a much higher % than is normally achievable given the same resoruces(similar to the one day crafting patch).
But I guess my main point here is that an "Amazing Success" is not a "Criticle Success" and therefore the tool would appear to be broken or bugged or what ever term you would like to use for it. It is not acting as it was designed to(based on it's description).
Where are you getting this information on "critical success" results?
I've made literally thousands of layers, segments, and armor schematics, and I've never seen a "critical success" in the results screen post-assembly. Most long-time armorsmiths acknowledge that there is a bug that allows the crafter to slightly exceed the normal hard caps on resources (usually for me an extra percentage point or two on base effectiveness), but I've never seen it called anything other than a bug.
I'm not disputing that such assemblies happen, I've just never heard of them being related to anything other than a bug.
You can get a critical success?
Yes - - with the same frequency.
And thanks to everyone in this discussion. This has been not only a great discussion thread but a lot of great info has come up and its been interesting
There are a few different issues, but all of them are being considered for development improvement.
Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
Community Relations Manager
If TH says that a critical success happenes with the same frequency as a Crit Fail then he is talking about an amazing succes and not some uber assembly that supposedly happens 1 in 10000 assemblies.
Message Edited by Chewie101 on 10-19-2004 03:05 PM