Weaponsmith Archive
Thread: Problems with weapon experimentation today
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Alrond
Thu Jan 22, 2004 3:51 pm
#1
I am a master weaponsmith and used to getting great successes on weapon experimentation. Usually I would get great success, rarely worse, and failures or amazing successes were hardly ever seen.
Until now.
Today I wanted to create a few factory schematics and just keep getting incredibly bad results - had 5 critical failures in a row on making vibro blade units, keep getting only moderate success on projectile rifle barrels. It is just the opposite of what would be normal, great successes are the rare exception today.
Is it just me? Am I bugged somehow or are others experiencing the same thing? I switched out my home crafting station and tools, no change. I tried public stations. Same lousy successes. I haven't seen anything like this happening, it's worse than what I got as a fresh novice WS with few experimentation points... If you are a master weaponsmith and have experimented today please reply whether you are experiencing this, I am getting quite upset here!
P.S. I am not talking about a couple of bad tries, this has been going on for hours!
collateral
Thu Jan 22, 2004 3:55 pm
#2
I made some hammers this morning without problems (about 8am PST). Is there anything different in your routine? Are you using new resources? Did you reboot your client? I know it sounds strange but sometimes a good reboot will fix strange things.
I have had crafting schematics vanish right before my very eyes. I reboot client and they come back.
hope you have better luck soon,
Alrond
Thu Jan 22, 2004 4:24 pm
#3
I got new resources with better stats, the very reason why I wanted to meke new schematics. Used the same tools and station for several das now (made new ones when a 1000 cond material became available a few days ago) but this is the first time I experience this kind of thing. I don't have any mod tapes or the like and was never buffed, diseased oraffected by anythig elsewhen crafting. There is a single crafting station in my house, the general&weapon one. There seems very little variety in the results, when I tried to make the rifle barrels I almost always had consistent moderate successes on my 3 goes at experimenting. When I made the vibro blade units I had 6 critical failurs in a row and 2 or so really bad successes until i finaly got an all great one. Made a tusken rifle and all the experimentation attempts were moderate successes. It feels like the skill checks are using a much lower skill than my master skill but had all 10 experimantation points available each time.
Had that vanishing schematics (and swoop and anything else on the data tab) thing happen last week after a shuttle ride butlogging a whilefixed that.
I'll do a reboot and see if that changes anything, will post here if it works any better after.
collateral
Thu Jan 22, 2004 5:53 pm
#4
did the reboot fix your problem. If not I suggest waiting for a server reboot. If after the server reboots and you are still experiencing problems I would submit a ticket to a CSR.
Alrond
Thu Jan 22, 2004 8:32 pm
#5
Can't really tell because I didn't get to do many items before the game decided to hit me with another bug: for convenience all my resources are in my station's input hopper but suddenly none are visible. At the same time the item count in my house keeps going up despite the fact that I haven't dropped any items but have picked up a few parts.
Not sure what could be worse for a crafter with next to no combat skills than being denied access to your resources. I hope they are back after the reset...
KeysMaker
Thu Jan 22, 2004 8:34 pm
#6
Tell me about it, I crit. fail 3 times lately when I am using my krayt tissues......
Soar
Thu Jan 22, 2004 8:54 pm
#7
Alrond wrote:Can't really tell because I didn't get to do many items before the game decided to hit me with another bug: for convenience all my resources are in my station's input hopper but suddenly none are visible. At the same time the item count in my house keeps going up despite the fact that I haven't dropped any items but have picked up a few parts.Not sure what could be worse for a crafter with next to no combat skills than being denied access to your resources. I hope they are back after the reset...
Sounds like your server is having major issues atm. My own server does it from time to time. While its happening you can expect all manner of bugs to start flopping around.
GameBOFH
Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:14 am
#8
There was someone, eons ago, who remarked they thought there might be
a correlation between failures and ping time. If you had high ping time
you were more likely to crit fail. I can't validate this, but I now have
the network monitor up all the time.
I do seem to crit more when I have enhancements.
One thing that occurs to me is that you MIGHT be able to avoid crit failing
if you were to macro to the experimentation window. Watching my
crafting tools as I macro grind (DE this time) I notice there is never
a time that a crafting tool isn't used, like it would be if that macro
run had crit failed. I have crit failed when I've had it pull the schematic,
dumped the macro chain and done the assembly.
a correlation between failures and ping time. If you had high ping time
you were more likely to crit fail. I can't validate this, but I now have
the network monitor up all the time.
I do seem to crit more when I have enhancements.
One thing that occurs to me is that you MIGHT be able to avoid crit failing
if you were to macro to the experimentation window. Watching my
crafting tools as I macro grind (DE this time) I notice there is never
a time that a crafting tool isn't used, like it would be if that macro
run had crit failed. I have crit failed when I've had it pull the schematic,
dumped the macro chain and done the assembly.
Alrond
Fri Jan 23, 2004 6:45 pm
#9
Wel I wholeheartedly agree they my server(Infinity) is having serious issues, I just hopre they don't live up to its name. Hopefully a little tweaking will get it back in line.
Having said that I am quite furious at the past two days which for the most part were lost to erratic buggy behaviour on the other end. After the server reset the resoureces reclaimed residence in my crafting station but have since vanished and reappeared again. The item count in my house (med tatooine for the moment) has beenbeen running rampant ever since i moved my resources into my crafting stations. Even though I have since moved yon resources back to my packs the item count in my hpouse is still by about 20 higher than it was before putting them in the station. The funny thing is I haven't asdded any items in that time, I actually picked up some stuff. Safe to assume that private crafting stations have issues. MAJOR issues. Already ordered a droid for crafting, stations hitting the flea market. Just can't get worse than this. Well I think. Not by far, anyway. Hopefully.
Kobya
Sat Jan 24, 2004 12:07 am
#10
What's the OQ of the reasources you are using? That's usually defines your sucess rate. To my knowlage anyway. I have noticed that this is true. Sure the Con, UT,or mallability etc.. may be killer 900+ but with a low oq I get alot more critical failures.
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