Smuggler Archive

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Kyret wrote:

...then why do molecular clamps, along with almost every other craftable item in this game, name specific qualities of resources that affect the "outcome" of the object.

In this case: "conductivity 100%"

So, one would assume the higher conductivity of the metal used in the crafting of a clamp, would increase the quality of the clamp.

But yet, "quality of the tools being used has no affect on the outcome of the slice". I just can't seem to figure out why this is the way it is. Poor programming? along with a poor effort on the entire development team? They aren't telling us something? I'm just unlucky?

The driving force behind this post is an extraordinarily long run of mediocre to poor slices on various objects.

When you slice weapons and armor, and get worse and worse slices over and over, you just start to wonder.....**edit**?

I've only been a master for about a month, and had planned on keeping it, but this is getting friggin rediculous!

Any other "lifers" out there share my utter contempt for this proffesion?

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You're just unlucky unfortunately

Think about this: If any tool's quality had an effect it would would be the WUK/AUK you used during the slice, not the Molecular Clamp or Precision Laser Knife. Why? Well, the purpose of the Clamp is just to tell you what wire to cut; it doesn't augment the actual weapon/armor modification process. So a well made Clamp gives you 100% accuracy with your wire selection, and a poorly made Clamp gives you .... 100% accuracy.

If Experimentation DID work for Clamps, then a well made one would be 100% accurate and a poorly made one would be slightly less (perhaps 90% or 95%) accurate.

Just keep at it, everybody has both high and low streaks when it comes to slicing. I've heard of people having huge high streaks, and then they bottom out when they decide to ride the high and slice their own gear! It's all pseudo-random.

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Shadwe wrote:

If smugglers could experiment on items it open a can of worms.

Clamps would not work 100% of the time, getting FAN's to work 100% of the time, what would be the fail rate of PLK's and would it mean you cut the wrong wire. How much would you pay a smuggler who failed to improve any of the 10 items you gave him to slice?

Then there are spices does it increase or decrease the negative effects along with the positive ones. Would you every use another spice if it had a 30 min downer?

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Not to mention us poor smugglers would be spending way too much time resource hunting rather than smuggling. Experimentation is fine, as long as resource quality is not a factor. Skill should matter, smugglers being the tinkerers we've been made into, should be able to make great stuff out of crap. And with spice, it's the processing that makes the difference, as it's all made from the same raw spice.

In a sane galaxy, just not Star Wars Galaxies...

Flow Analyzer Node - quality x 50-75% = Chance of it choosing the right wire.
Molecular Clamp - quality = Chance of it choosing the right wire
We -always- get to choose what we want to upgrade.
AUK/WUK - quality, which some limiting mathematical formula, how effective the slice is.

Though yes, I'm not entirely crazy about the molecular clamp not giving me that 100%, if you added a quality factor to it, that should probably be it...