Weaponsmith Archive

so. where is your official word on this from the dev's, is this an exploit or not?

taking lootedlimited use schematic, i.e republic blaster and building a schematic with it for 1k weapons on all 3 uses, allowing you to build 1497 republic blasters,instead of 3?

I don't want to exploit, but I would like to take advantage of this and build enough weapons for my guildmates.

I see many weaponsmiths are building a good amount of these weapons in bulk already, I guess i'll be joining them shortly.

Trean Speyr-Caggeyder

Former SWG Player

Voted Starsider's Best Weaponsmith - August 2005

Dark and Light

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Trucegore vonbloodworth,wonderhome
Mayor/guild master

Pikeman, Polition, Merchant,Master Artisan
***** Im easy to talk to once people get to know me, but holding my personal audiences on a throne of bloody skulls tends to put them off at first. *****

I'd like to know the official answer on this as well. Originally I made a run of 25 of the new Featherweight FWG5s... but someone put the thought into my head that it may be a bug that we are able to do so - as a result, I pulled the remaining from my vendors and am going to wait for an official word.

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As long as the weapons dont require specific identical resources then its by game design that this can be done. Nothing in them is unique and none of the componants for them are dropped.

When the sythes are actually in game this will be different as they require 2 identical componants, both made from MOB dropped componants. Once one is made, the schematic is useless as there are no more componants that exist with the identical serial number.

It all falls back to the days when none of the mob dropped componants had serial numbers. To fix the exploit of being able to make 100 weapons (at the time schematics were only 100 uses) with any similar dropped item they added the SN's, making the reuse of that particular schematic not possable when the componants were gone.If it was by origional design that theywanted only 3 items made thenit seems they have created another problem.

Been managing QA teams for too long here to mention the number of times this happens...One bug fix leads to a design change which opens an entire new can of worms down the line in the product lifecycle because the reaction to the short term was too immediate.

Just my 2c.

To fix it? Have the PM listen to QA once in a while, it helps.

Tiq

Tiq's Foundry
Anchorhead, Tatooine, Corbantis (244, -4964) Coronet, Corellia, Corbantis (252, -5612)
Master Weaponsmith / Master Merchant / Master Artisian / Shot self in foot with blaster
"I mean, er, chartered accountancy to lion taming in one go. You don't think it might be better if you worked your way toward lion taming, say, via banking..."

Jeez people. You guys are really worrying about this way too much. Sell your weapons, make your schematics. You didn't do some freaky trick to get the option. They "gave" you the option to create schematic or create weapon. You didn't cheat. Not like you tried some stupid smuggler line to get 5 slices on a weapon and you didn't hack into the system and make it so you could shoot through walls. THEY GAVE YOU THE OPTION!!

Just my opinion, not official

Krayt FWG5s, Beam Rifles, Republic Blasters... I think you are giving them credit beyond their due. Adequate testing and forethought has not been a strong point so far.

Arcos Alendi of Kettemoor

Master Artisan

Master Weaponsmith

even so.... I'd be keeping on the DL....

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Best Quote Ever: "i havent quit yet.. i'm waiting to see what the next publish is like.. swg is like that ungly girls number you keep cause you know she will **edit** you if you call.. " - IKasper23

Second Best: "You're killing an Apprentice Carbineer? Thats like clubbing a baby seal."

Well the arguement is, if they wanted it to be limited they would use required sub components like the nightsister lance. then, why give u a limited use of 3? why not just make it permanent once u read it? I'm a crate guy, I leave everything in crates, as a small weaponsmith, this would kill me to loose a stock of weapons due to some nerf down the road.

JUST MAKE SURE YOU UNLOAD THEM ALL ON A VENDOR

See, good weapons kept in crates is an exploit.

But having them loose on a vendor is perfectly fine.

Its not what weapons you have, but how they are stored.

I am really starting to hate this game.

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wow....make a valid point and iget one star.......seems greed has compleatly taken over this profession....

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Trucegore vonbloodworth,wonderhome
Mayor/guild master

Pikeman, Polition, Merchant,Master Artisan
***** Im easy to talk to once people get to know me, but holding my personal audiences on a throne of bloody skulls tends to put them off at first. *****