Good evening!
We have seen a variety of suggestions for automated crafting such as a system that you can place materials into, logout, and come back to have 50 items created for you. However, looking at the in-game economy, there is a necessity to place limitations on how many items can be created in a certain amount of time. Taking this into consideration, we do not plan on implementing a system like that.
What we are considering for A Realm Reborn is an "easy crafting" system that will allow you to automatically create a predetermined amount of items. We will let you know more as we progress!
Regarding Auto-Crafting
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09-14-2012, 09:50 AMOkipuitRegarding Auto-Crafting
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09-14-2012, 10:55 AMIcehunterI don't want to logout :) I want to be there but it's like that in most new games like GW2/Aion, you have to be logged in but if you have mats for 400 crafts you can craft so long as you have the inventory space :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Okipuit
I appreciate your answer and thank you~! -
09-14-2012, 11:42 AMRaneThank you. It sounds like you guys are on the right track!Quote:
Originally Posted by Okipuit
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09-14-2012, 11:46 AMMyllor_Aurelion
Yeah, even if it's just crafting with a focus on success all the way through (HQing items would still require attention and effort) crafting 100 Cobalt Ingots when I'm already a 50 ARM is very boring.
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09-14-2012, 11:49 AMPunainen
Hopefully there wont be a limit on how many synths you can do in a day...
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09-14-2012, 01:10 PMScratchesMaybe I'm missing something here, but why would there be? o.OQuote:
Originally Posted by Punainen
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09-14-2012, 01:23 PMMariyaShidouL-l-l-l-likeQuote:
Originally Posted by Okipuit
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09-14-2012, 02:25 PMJeronlmo
So ill get to craft without... having to craft? Yay?
The fact that crafting 100 ingots when your already 50 is annoying, is what makes it worth something, because everyone wont do it, its called an economy, wow otw. -
09-14-2012, 02:38 PMjlb00gie
I like the crafting system GW2 has. It lets you know what you can craft based on items you already have in your inventory. Simple and Fun should be the focus.
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09-14-2012, 03:41 PMKraggyWhy? Are you one of those crafters that want limitations on others so you can gouge more cash due to an artificial limit of supply?Quote:
Originally Posted by Punainen
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09-14-2012, 03:52 PMMStowastiqVahlshdeh
I just imagine rmt would take advantage of any kind of logged out, auto crafting by having multiple accounts crafting and that would hurt the economy for us legitimate players. I like the alternative system you mentioned though. Thanks for the heads up Oki.
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09-14-2012, 03:57 PMCynthis
I just hope that if someone makes 50 of something in one go it only counts as one towards the achievements and not 50...
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09-14-2012, 10:10 PMReika
logout-crafting is stupid anyways. Make em stay logged in to do it.
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09-15-2012, 11:21 AMRomowens01
Maybe your retainer can or a mog or something. But can only craft items 1 level lower than you and no exp gains. Basically a Hasty Hand robot.
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09-24-2012, 10:50 AMTrystWildkey
I do NOT like this idea.
I can't see any logical reason why this would be necessary, and I can see how this will be exploited. Crafting is hard work, it should remain that way. -
09-24-2012, 11:33 AMPSxpert2011Talk about lazy motha-$@#!*s!Quote:
Originally Posted by Okipuit
That would be something RMT Gill-sellers and Bot-farmers would love. -
09-24-2012, 01:38 PMMikitaRest assured. The second half of that paragraph reads...Quote:
Originally Posted by PSxpert2011
Talk about lazy motha-$@#!*s!Quote:
Originally Posted by Okipuit
That would be something RMT Gill-sellers and Bot-farmers would love.
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Originally Posted by Okipuit
Any automation could be used by RMT so SE needs to tread carefully.
However, from legitimate players, there is a valid desire to make certain crafting actions less of a chore.
When your level is much higher than the recipe you get no experience from it. And when you are Level 50 in multiple crafts, everything except trying to HQ something is of not much interest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Okipuit
Perhaps at that point it would be nice to have an "easy crafting" option where you can batch craft more items than we can with the current system.
I don't want SE to make things too easy, and especially not things that will benefit RMT most. But if they implement a well-thought out easy crafting system then maybe I can finally clear out stacks of flax, fleece, and iron ore that I've been meaning to get to "one of these days" when not busy with LS events. -
09-24-2012, 03:26 PMRuisuThere is nothing hard about crafting. It is incredibly tedious. If you're levelling up, sure, I can see why you need to manually craft. However, if I'm mass producing ice shards or something, I should be able to automatically do it without the minigame.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrystWildkey
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09-25-2012, 02:01 AMtymora
HQ crafting should not be automated, but don't mind an improved Hasty-Hand. (i.e automated but 0 chance of HQ)
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09-25-2012, 04:07 AMDraxis_Fallspear
As part of my work, I've had to learn some automation to implement in GUI testing.
I can safely say that anyone who has the interest in learning how to automate crafting and has an inclination towards using it as an unfair advantage (cheaters) can easily figure out how to write a script to automate simple synths, so I don't think that having SE making a legal way to do it would make that much of an impact.
That being said, I spent about 2 hours hasty handing shards from fish since I was running out and was kinda poor. The process left me feeling as if my brain was going to start bleeding out of my nose. The only thing I noticed in this extended session of boredom was that the system auto-booted me from the crafting interface presumably while taking somekind of information to determine whether I was an RMT or bot every now and then (since I'm thinking that it would be VERY easy to script around that kind of occurence if it only takes you out of the crafting interface).
Anyhow, I'd certainly appreciate being able to setup somekind of way to make automatic crafting. I wouldn't mind it having a higher chance of failure if I can avoid spamming enter and arrow up for 2 hours just for some shards. Perhaps they can keep flagging accounts to notice if some users are doing this 24/7?
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09-25-2012, 04:36 AMOrophin
If you have the mats on hand, I don't see any reason why you should have to manually craft each item unless you're trying to HQ. I don't support being able to have stuff crafted while not in game, but like, if I have mats for 100 ingots, I don't want to go through what's currently a 15 second process just to open the crafting interface just to hit Hasty Hand.
Just set a limit on how high the recipe can be vs your craft level to auto-craft. For stuff like materials, I'd want to see an interface like WoW's crafting, where you have x amount of materials in your inventory and you just hit a craft button and watch them go.