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    Grimmel's Avatar
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    Overlord Mitron
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    Balmung
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    Black Mage Lv 63

    Server Lag: The Killer of Macro Crafting

    I'm an avid crafter; it's what I do to make money. I have a two macro set up for HQing certain star recipes and both macros are almost to the line cap. But hey; they get the job done and they get it done right.

    I have been crafting for an hour and a half while I watch a movie on my other screen. Every time one craft finishes I start up another one. However.. lately there has been increasing amounts of server lag causing me to gain the message "Cannot execute at this time." And it has caused me to break over at least thirty synths so far.

    Now the materials I'm using are for Spicy Tomato Relish; but I'm also using HQ ingredients and as we all know HQ Dzemael Tomato's are expensive. I do gather my own, but to loose over thirty just today adding on to the amount I've lost previous days when I sit down to craft; it adds up to a wasted time sink when I use the HQ Spicy Tomato Relish to turn in for Artisan's Specs to Desynth for Fieldcraft Demimateria III so I can level my Goldsmithing Desynth AND get my Fieldcraft Demimateria III I need for my better fishing rod.

    In my latest synth alone I've gotten a grand total of 4 "Cannot execute at this time." messages and it's really starting to frustrate me. I have been crafting in my housing district where a majority of the losses took place so I thought maybe moving into my private room would lessen it; boy was I wrong.

    Square-Enix, Yoshi-P; I love this game so much, but this server lag is driving me crazy when I try to sit down to craft with macros. Macros make crafting all the more easier but again.. this server lag is completely destroying the usefulness of this system.
    Please for the sake of us crafters who actually do two and three star pieces for themselves or friends; find a way to fix those leaks and stop this head throbbing, headache induced madness! D:

    For all of those telling us crafters to manually craft instead of using macros:
    Quote Originally Posted by Gilraen View Post
    Macros make alot of sense if you're processing stacks of things that you want to HQ instead of Quick Synth. Especially if you want to HQ. You try manually processing 99 lumber's worth of logs manually, see how long you stay sane.
    ^^^^
    This can also be said for crafting multiple 2-Star Master Recipies in succession.
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    Last edited by Grimmel; 09-19-2014 at 12:48 AM.