Building Weapons and Tuning Ships

From what I have heard, even when you are mastered in the engineering skill and related sciences as well as using the "ideal" materials to construct a blade or a blaster, the end result varies. So one blade or blaster you produce will be less or more effective than the next one even with the same materials and level of mastery. If that is so, I think that it would be nice if the end results were the same. After all, you don’t see an auto manufacturing factory pump out various qualities of the same model cars (sure, there are defective ones but not regularly). It’s absurd doing the same things with the same things and getting a different result each time.

This is the same for tuning ships. There are various quotas that can be got after tuning the same ship designs despite having mastered sciences and tuneship skill. Why is that?

Currently all blasters have a damage cap of 618, it doesn’t matter if one master blaster is slightly worse then another because they all reach the cap.

It is still random, random avdam, random hit/dam, random ammo, albeit between two or three settings for ammo and hit/dam at least.

Real engineers are not manufacturing factories with computers and machines that make the same thing over and over again until you change the program or whatever, so it is completely different. Random is good, but it would be cool if you could specify what kind of blaster you could make and have some two handed blasters. Maybe something that can be discussed on the other threads about science.

I’ve sent in several ideas like this, but could never go into spec. I’d like to see more specified blasters, I dislike seeing people run amuck wielding two E-11 Blaster Rifles.

Blasters all have the same damage cap, yes, but based on different variables (user’s blaster proficiency, quality of the blaster) determines how often that blaster hits for that cap, and how much ammo the blaster can hold, both very important within PVP.

For example, some blasters can stun another player on the first try and some may take quite a few more. For someone trying to ambush someone, that could be the deciding factor in a fight.

618 damage cap yes but at what cost, if you are lucky enough you can get 618’s on almost every hit at normal setting saveing you alot of ammo.

I’m definately onboard with the ‘making an more standardized model.’ cuz really all the randomness does is make production more expensive if you want competitive equipment and forces people to spend more time running cargo/killing NPC’s so they can look whatever part they’ve chosen than actually RPing that part.

They definatly do need to make it so results are more exact when you are creating things like this, even if its at a penalty like one poster suggested. As it is you have to usually make blasters and vibroblades even in batches of 100 and 200 just to select 10 or so that are up to a decent standard of quality, and that is after you have done all the testing with the variety of component combinations to figure out which is the best(as it is now blaster recipies are jealously guarded secrets even with variation). Thats fairly insane considering it is potentially easier and more cost effecient to make full out spaceships since both the building and upgrading is contstant even if the exact tuning varies a bit.

And by the way, while stun setting can be extremely nice, not only are a lot of mobs set to be stun resistant once the imms notice the need, but also from what i’ve seen people who are wearing armor are if not entirely immune to stun, pretty damned close. IE you need to try many many rounds to get them stunned and even if it actually works how much damage have they dealt you or how far have they run by then.