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Random Crafting is horribly innefficient
drbitey
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just made 4325 mk ii antiproton dual heavies with lvl 19 cannon r&d skill, purple doffs. got 5 mk ii [crtd]x3 proc, was after only crtdx4 upon upgrading, they are all junk. everyone is trying so hard doing the same thing i am, therefore all items are valueless according to exchange. i cant even give em away! Random proc crafting is the weakest thing ive ever done here in 6 years. (and i spent 3 months hanging with slamek and neelix) please burn it down and design a new idea. (this all means im starting the same process again, here we go, hope im not wasting tons of time and currency.
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First off, is that a typo or HOW did you make over 4000 cannons? Where would you even store them? Lastly, if so, they still sell as junk and at that number you're still looking at MILLIONS of ec.
Secondly, I agtree, crafting needs a tewak. I'd like to see the option to choose your procs (on a succeed/fail) but that opens the possibily that a fail would mean the consumables are used bt the craft is trashed, so it's kind of a double-edged sword there.
I'd also REALLY like to see the option to reverse engineer items to lean new (advanced) recipes, including the fames corrosive plasma, piercing tetryon, etc.
days n days, the amount of junk items was a major hangup, i trashed most of it but even thowing it all away took time ynow, and yes more recipes:)
ive leveled and bought great doffs for at least 12 alts all schools above 17 on each, each alt has 1 school at 19
my goal is to be a crazy good crafter
i used fleet assistance to help destroy/ use some too (delegation is a good thing)
now they are all starting to make mass amounts of garbage trying to get that 90%crtd with the possibility of more when upgraded.
it was easier to buy a t6 bug ship then make a weapon i want lol
I would suggest the following for consideration:
1. A choice of available procs that can be guaranteed to produce
2. Different 'recipes' in order to create the items as we want/need them.
As a 'real life' fabricator, I know exactly what I'm building/creating, and get the appropriate materials. I'd really hate to find out that I intended to create a part for a '66 Mustang and ended up with a deck lid for a '72 Pontiac!
That right there would at least increase the chances of you getting what you want. Slightly.
I kinda know what you mean. I have attempted to craft over 100 Phaser Beam Array Mk II with one of the following combos that I deem to be acceptable:
[CrtD]x2 [CrtH]
[CrtD]x2 [Pen]
[CrtD]x3
You know how many of them I managed to craft? Zero.
I have such a hard time selling my "failures" at prices as low as 2K EC that I simply sell them to the vendor so that I can make more room in my sell queue for other things that I know will sell at much higher prices like various very rare tactical consoles.
I ended up buying a set of Phaser Beam Array Mk II [CrtD]x2 [CrtH] for around 20k - 25k each and stored them in my bank just in case [CrtD]x2 [Pen] and [CrtD]x3 continues to elude me.
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i will never ever run low on resources. even if i beat my head on the wall over this and try making 100000 more dhcs. but i still after upgrading (another chance system) will not own any weapons with crtdx4 proc (the only acceptable outcome for someone like me
Umm since when? The old system basically gave you a single version of weapons with no interchangable stats...and the stats weren't even that great if I recall.
Exactly this.
What money? For the resources for MK II weapons you don't even have to open R&D packs, it's just a enormous waste of time with all the useless modifiers.
Amen brother! In a nutshell, you nailed it.
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The problem is, the way the crafting system currently is, it's a sort of dead end.
-Only a fool would craft a highlevel item (except for [some] of the special lvl 15 items]) because of that stupid lottery.
-The Shield R&D DOFFS are a waste of valuable Rooster Space, the have no function at all.
-Ground Melee Weapons... still MIA
-Catalysts are capped into uselessness, even with 2 +50 catalysts it's just a .. 46%(?) success rate for the "premium" R&D lvl 15 items.
-No add-ons since the system was introduces (apart from a halfhearted try tro introduce [cold] based disruptors for the last winter event).
They are unwilling to balance them
So they made the crafting system like it is making the good OP mods very hard to get and the trash mods easy to get
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Hmm, I need to go out to my magnesite mine and see what those lazy romulans are doing so I have my crafting mats.
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Of they could allow us to pick one mod per used catalyst, that leaves one random stat.
It would make the catalysts usefull again and it would reduce our piles of useless trash.
Better to buy what you want from the exchange, if you can.
I would LOVE for them to add recipes to unlock the alternate damage types for crafting. Crafted Rom-Plas would RULE.
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This is part of the reason the universally hated and useles [PvP] mods have been intentionally left in.
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