Weaponsmith Archive

Stupid thing posting too quickly...

Anyways, I just did a short study. I was about to grind 18815 duranium steel toquarks,so I figured I'd do a study to determine the average failure rate in Weaponsmithing.

Materials:
(4) 13.92 Effectiveness Weapon, Droid, and General Item crafting tools.

(18815) Duranium Steel

I was practice grinding Projectile Rifle Barrels (46 Steel each). Each Practice yields 94 experience.

(18815/46) = 409.02 or about 409 theoretical Projectile Rifle Barrels. 409 x 94 = 38446, the theoretical experience gain.

At the beginning of the grinding excercise I had 65773 Weapon Crafting Experience. After grinding through all of the steel ( gotta finish up munitions before master, heh) , I had 101878 experience. 101878 - 65773 = 36105Experimental Experience Gained. 36105 / 94 = 384, the number of experimental combines. To get percent error ( which in this activity is simply the failure rate )...

...we follow theexpression: ((Theoretical Yield - Experimental yield ) / (Theoretical yield ) x 100 = error %.

ExperienceError:(38446 - 36105)/(38446) x 100 =about 6% (6.14 exact)

Combine Error:(409 - 384)/(409) x 100 = about 6% (6.11 exact )

So I think it is pretty safe to assume that on average, a weaponsmith ( with a 13.92 effectiveness crafting tool near no crafting stations!! ) will have a 6% error ratio.

Factors that (may)affect results:

-I am an expert weaponsmith ( 75 Assmembly. )

- I was not near a crafting station.

- I was crafting in the prone position.

- I was using 13.92 effectiveness crafting tools.

- It was possible (though very unlikely considering the study was done after midnight) that I had gained a slight amount of usage experience, thus slightly skewing the results: however, I hadn't sold a gun in seven days, so I consider it relatively unlikely.

Thoughts or comments? I'd like to see some others replicate this or something of its nature so we can compare results.

6%. Curses.

Well, since the AD&D days, using a 20 sided die, 1/20 (or 5%) was a typical critical failure rate.

And back when I did trials with several hundred gaffi sticks, I saw (more or less) a 5% crit failure rate. And this was from actually recording each trial.

Why on earth were you crafting while prone?

To hide from... uh... stuff...

Ok.. now do a study on experimentation failure!

Scientifically speaking, if your instruments are more than 5% off, the results are considered garbage. Maybe it fails less with a high station and at master, I would be interested in those findings. If it was the same, we wouldhave a serious problem.

The lack of responses here doesn't really motivate one to do so...

my "instruments" aren't off, the only thing this study showed is that as an expert not near a crafting station with 13.92 effectiveness tools, an expert WS has a 6.1% critical failure rate.