Small 'hmmm' about GoD refining

[eqNichola]

So we went on a Ferubi raid the other day. So I was one of the looters. So I picked up 8 (count 'em) Taelosian Tea Leaves (this took at least 2 hours). So I finally succumb and look up how all this GoD stuff works.

I can hand these 8 hard-won tea leaves to an NPC, and get 16 usuable things back.

- or -

I can do FOUR HUNDRED combines and hand them in UNSTACKED to gain the ability to do this conversion myself, at which point I can convert my 8 hard-won tea leaves into... 12 usuable things. Maybe.

Oh, and there's a vague promise that as I continue to convert tea leaves myself, I might get better at converting. *Maybe*, if I find enough tea leaves, I might eventually get... as good as the NPC!


Given how rare these things seem to be, why would I bother doing the FOUR HUNDRED combines and handing them in UNSTACKED myself, when I can immediately get a better result from the NPC?

[Dunthor Warsmith]

Well, with the current bug, it seems you're likely to get more around 20 with doing it yourself.

[Maddoc-the-Wayfarer]

You'll definately wind up with a conversion rate better than that of handing them to the NPC, by the time all's said and done.

In fact, that's actually got a small bug right now. Somehow, Absor managed to create a bug where it gives you an extra, free piece of refined product per combine .

At any rate, that should be fixed in the next live-server update and the conversion rate will be working normally...

-- Maddoc

[Maevenniia]

You'll definately wind up with a conversion rate better than that of handing them to the NPC, by the time all's said and done.

In fact, that's actually got a small bug right now. Somehow, Absor managed to create a bug where it gives you an extra, free piece of refined product per combine .

At any rate, that should be fixed in the next live-server update and the conversion rate will be working normally...

-- Maddoc

Awwww, and here I thought I'd finally worked my refining up to the 3-per-combine-once-in-a-while level....

[Grimwood]

While we're on a roll with fixing bugs, please take a look at the Bazaar sales-log feature. These are the logs stored in the main EQ folder that should look something like "bzrlog_fenninro_Grimwood.txt". The March 23 patch broke mine. Thanks kindly :-).

Grimwood

[Turlo Lomon]

Did you look for it in the log subdirectory? That is where I found mine.

[Grimwood]

Wow, thanks Turlo :-). I am sooo used to patches breaking more than they fix that I never guessed the sucker might have just started writing to a different directory. My log takes up right where the old one left off before it started playing hide 'n seek.

Grimwood

[Tinile]

Patch messages are good reads /nod /nod

[Dunthor Warsmith]

The move of the log location wasn't mentioned in the patch message Really bugged me for a few days until I read on some board that logs had just been moved, not disabled.

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