Small quality of life fix...

[RyuujinZERO]

This is to ensure that you cannot cancel when it looks like you are going to fail.

But what he's saying is cancelling mid craft should be treated as an automatic failiure. Instead of "automaticlly delete all items"

When you abort a craft via reclaim, what you'd normally do is keep on crafting til you hit zero durability, then get back your items. Why don't they cut to the chase, and treat cancelling the craft as a "failiure", and perform the item reclaim roll instead of forcing you to button mash til it breaks anyway. It makes no odds whatsoever and the devs logic on this matter is flawed (Though a simple mistake to make, you've made the same mistake in your own logic)

This then has the beneficial side effect that if the player has to bail out of the craft halfway, or they get disconnected, they at least have a *chance* of recouping the materials, just like they would if they failed

[Arkista]

Okay, I can understand your logic, but let me explain my logic here. While waiting for a DF que, one of the things I do to pass the time is craft. As I work, I get more and more into it. I might even find myself attempting an HQ combine with a bunch of HQ materials. And then right after I start crafting, my DF pops. Now I am in trouble. I can't cancel my crafting or you guys delete all of those valuable materials. I can't withdraw from the DF, because it could have easily been a 30+ minute wait (I waited 85 minutes once). The only other option is to hurry up and rush through the crafting process, so I can switch classes and accept the dungeon prompt. But then I might accidently use a wrong ability at the wrong time and mess myself up.

So while I understand why you did the above, the fact is, I would REALLY appreciate the ability to just cancel my combine without losing my materials, so that I can quickly take that dungeon pop.

Sorry I've been in the same boat while crafting and waiting for DF and I'll eat the extra 30min+ wait time if I'm crafting something of value with HQ items.

The only thing that would be nice is some sort of Crafting Pause system incase you DC it would keep your progress. But not reset your progress and let you start over cause people would abuse it if they were going to fail a synth.

[Yuripa]

So bad, so so so bad! Power outage and you lose all the mats you had or someone gave you to craft something. TERRIBLE.

[Artemiz]

I agree with most of the people in this thread on both arguments to be honest. Steady hand is fine as it is and losing usage is part of the synthing strategy.

I also agree that you should lose all your mats if you cancel a synth, it's far too easy to abuse otherwise and even a chance you will get your mats back can and would be abused by some. It really isn't hard to avoid the DF while crafting situation, I always craft or gather while waiting on DF and I just bear in mind it could pop at any moment and play accordingly. I don't start leves (gathering) or start any HQ synth that requires concentration while DF is searching, if I forget (which I have in the past) then I skip the dungeon and wait for the next one, I can only blame myself for the extra wait.

Disconnecting while Synthing I'm sure would be frustrating but it's hardly going to be a common occurence and it simply isn't worth making aspects of the game easier to abuse in order to ensure people don't lose mats in such cases.

[IzumiRaito]

When disconnected the crafting should be just paused, and resumed after loging back in.

[HEC]

I also agree that you should lose all your mats if you cancel a synth, it's far too easy to abuse otherwise

No - it's not. As explained above about five times already - if SE would make the Cancel behave exactly the same way as Fail at the end of the crafting the only diffenrece is saved time when you see it will fail so you spare mindless button mashing until it will actually fail / run out of dura. I doubt anyone would be playing crafting "lottery" by repeatedly cancelling mid craft if - let's say - they'll not see Excellent status in first 3 steps etc. And - to make it even more bulletproof SE can implement anti-abuse feature in the terms that after each Cancel (with chance of returning the mats in the same way as fail) there will be a small cooldown period so it will prevent players from spamming this feature. Apart of a bit of time needed to "flip the switch" in the if command somewherein the source code I don't see any negative impact on the game by implementing this at all.

[HunkyJimpjorps]

You should lose your mats if you fail a synth without Steady Hands, too. Why should they pop back into your inventory pristine and new after you've just wrecked them?

[Norbi]

Personally, I'd be thrilled if a cancelled synth worked the same as a failed synth. I've lost quite a few materials to random 90k errors and a flickering internet connection. Then there was that time that I 90k'd literally 4 seconds after finishing an 18-philo-mat 2star. @_@

[Samburi]

When disconnected the crafting should be just paused, and resumed after loging back in.

Too much server stress. This would require that every step from every crafter get saved server site every time a skill get activated. It would result in extra waiting time till the save is finished to use the next skill.

[Yahavage]

Who the hell sits in DF queue for thirty minutes, then randomly decides 'hey, I know! I'll try and hq myself a vanya robe!!' And then has the audacity to complain that the duty finder popped and all of a sudden they had this dilema?!?
/facepalm