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gaevsmangaevsman Member Posts: 3,190 Arc User
It's my idea or there is no critical chance to build stuff in the R&D?, at first it seemed bad luck, but 3 days with no criticals on any of my chars in two separate accounts are odd...

What do you say guys??, seems that the critical chances are broken or really low after the last patch :/
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  • gaevsmangaevsman Member Posts: 3,190 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Hello!, no one???
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  • heckgoblinheckgoblin Member Posts: 685
    edited February 2015
    I've been horribly unlucky with crafting. Made a run of 20 exotic particle field exciters, with a displayed crit chance of around 46%. Of those 20, two were ultra-rare.
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  • stuart1965stuart1965 Member Posts: 691 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    I'm not certain, but i think it depends on your crafting levels. I have been getting some crits.
    The higher your levels are, the better chance of crit, as a theory.
  • flyingshoeboxflyingshoebox Member Posts: 123 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    I had the same thing on some secondary deflectors. 40% on a few and 39% on another. No quality change. A few of my buddies were saying they also had similar outcomes.

    Now the way I’ve understood it is that every time the item goes up a level it uses that critical chance displayed to roll on whether or not it will upgrade in quality as well. Maybe I’m wrong and it only get 1 chance till it uses up all the r&d points you shoved in it at that moment. That would be a better explanation for having an item go from mark 2-10 at 40% and never upgrade. At the same time I have seen a deflector upgrade to ultra when they first came out with something like 10% chance at when it hit mk 8 on its way from mk 2.
  • tyler002tyler002 Member Posts: 1,586 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Every item you craft has a 'recommended experience' number that I'm pretty sure affects your crit chances. You can see it when you set up a crafting task.
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  • blakes7tvseriesblakes7tvseries Member Posts: 704 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    R&D Assitance has gone from good to worse.
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  • lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    edited February 2015
    gaevsman wrote: »
    It's my idea or there is no critical chance to build stuff in the R&D?, at first it seemed bad luck, but 3 days with no criticals on any of my chars in two separate accounts are odd...

    What do you say guys??, seems that the critical chances are broken or really low after the last patch :/

    Even at level 20 and with 2 +50 catalysts and a VR doff, the crit chance is I think 40% or just above that.
  • ddesjardinsddesjardins Member Posts: 3,056 Media Corps
    edited February 2015
    I craft daily. Have 8 alts set up to feed one specifically for crafting.

    The R&D assistance is random. There are good ones and bad ones. I have noticed no significant changes since the last patch, and the last 8 i opened on Friday were all above average in the contents.

    As for boosts to Research (quality) or technology points (faster upgrades/ less dil) all appear to be working as intended. They too however are random.

    I get the best results inside the Dyson sphere. I have no hard data to back that up, purely anecdotal, but all of my epics except 1 where generated there.
  • gaevsmangaevsman Member Posts: 3,190 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Thanks, guys, im level 16 in all schools, but every time i fabricate a component, no crit, whatsoever, for 3 days!, thats odd!!, my purple level is way beyond blue, and still no crits!.. Anyway, if anybody has the same problem please let me know, something seems odd...
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  • czertik123czertik123 Member Posts: 1,122 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    gaevsman wrote: »
    It's my idea or there is no critical chance to build stuff in the R&D?, at first it seemed bad luck, but 3 days with no criticals on any of my chars in two separate accounts are odd...

    What do you say guys??, seems that the critical chances are broken or really low after the last patch :/

    srs ? 2 acounts ? that means you hited 50 char limit on 1 acount ? jus wow, do you anyting else than have sto as second/first job ?
    by just mere 10 mins per chat to do jus doffs/research means you specding min 500 mins with your first acount, that 9 hours.
    well that never ending job :).
  • ironchefbbqironchefbbq Member Posts: 198 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    gaevsman wrote: »
    Thanks, guys, im level 16 in all schools, but every time i fabricate a component, no crit, whatsoever, for 3 days!, thats odd!!, my purple level is way beyond blue, and still no crits!..

    Here is the complete Component Crit Chance table. Your crit chance with a Very Rare Duty Officer ranges from 28% (on common components) to 22% (on very rare components) at level 16. You are dealing with a computerized random number generator (RNG) which will never behave like a true randomizer. Your sample size is probably too low. Over the course of a couple hundred attempts you will see it normalize to the predicted percentage.

    If you are trying to play the odds at getting 'free' components on crits, try running them in batches of 2 or 3 at a time, that way the triple payout makes it worth it. If you are really paranoid, try using catalysts, but that rarely feels like the right thing to do when all you are producing is a component.

    When I craft things that can crit, I rarely feel like I benefited (unless I crit in the first couple attempts then immediately quit while I am ahead). If your mindset is that you should be critting more often or you should be getting better returns for the time and materials spent, I would suggest that you realign your expectations.
  • horridpersonhorridperson Member Posts: 665 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    I'm not shocked by my low crits to craft quality upgrades on finished equipment; 5% and 2% are very low numbers. What I find hard to figure out are the high odds I have for crafting multiple components from basic materials that rarely materialize.
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  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,865 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    I was crafting a bunch of green components for improved upgrades this weekend and got about the same number of 3-cits on components and 2-crits on the upgrades as usual.

    I also crafted some gear and got the usual low upgrade rates. I was disappointed when I used an Omega + 2X quality on a Mk II beam bank and it stayed VR, but that happens too. Sometimes the RNG gives Epics, sometimes it gives rocks. I did have a personal shield go epic - Cap2, Cap, En, Reg x2.
  • gaevsmangaevsman Member Posts: 3,190 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    czertik123 wrote: »
    srs ? 2 acounts ? that means you hited 50 char limit on 1 acount ? jus wow, do you anyting else than have sto as second/first job ?
    by just mere 10 mins per chat to do jus doffs/research means you specding min 500 mins with your first acount, that 9 hours.
    well that never ending job :).

    lol, no, i had 2 accounts brom the begining.. one was my main, the other was when the game gone to f2p, for my son, but he never used it.. (i buyed him a subcription later), so i ended up with two accounts..

    Anyway, thanks, its odd as for 3 days no criticals.. thanks, ill keep testing
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