Sure, I don't have nearly enough samples yet. But without wasting too much more time on it, T3 seems ok. T2 next?

I've already updated the crafting page on the wiki for now. All the other stuff is saved in the wiki history anyway: http://nasomi.com/wiki/index.php?title= ... he_Formula

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Even though that's a tiny sample, given the previous results for T1 and T3, I won't even bother with T2 testing. I think we know enough now.

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On the wiki it sais:
≤ 10 ≤ 1%
> 11, ≤ 30 ~10%
> 31, ≤ 50 ~25%
> 51 ~50%

So what about the numbers 11, 31 and 51? is it supposed to be ≥ insted of >?

≥. Example: If the item is 10 then you need to be 21 atleast.

But acording to the wiki u need to be higher than 11 so you would need to be 22? Which is why i was confused

it currently sais you need to be higher than 10 and higher than 11 meaning 12+ so its exluding 11.

So.. we're good here on testing, practically speaking? It's just retail crafting now?

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T3 rock cutting (lvl 20 synths done with 82+2+3 GS)

71 / 144 (49.3%) - non-HQ days with neutral direction and between 20% et 80% moon.
67 / 144 (46.5%) - HQ days with HQ direction done during New Moon
73 / 144 (50.7%) - non-HQ days with neutral direction during Full Moon
Total: 211 / 432 (48.8%)

I'm sure we could use more data but I feel pretty confident at this point to say moon/day/direction is a thing of the past.

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I mis-wrote it, mrots. Anyone can edit the wiki, you know.

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This ^^

Plus, i didn't customize a crafting calculator to NOT use it! It's not time to bury it yet...

/denial

There is one thing I don't think anyone is considering; in retail, nobody had a clue what actually affected crafting. So people grasped onto rumours; day, moon, direction, lucky egg whatever. The best thing SE ever did was remain silent on these things.

Do we now know that none of those things mattered in retail? Yes. Does that mean that they must not matter on a server that strives to emulate the retail experience? Actually, no. To emulate the retail experience, the players need to be completely in the dark, requiring them to test everything to figure out how the system works. The best thing Nasomi could do to make crafting like retail is to code in some subtle effects (Day? moon? Other?) that might boost or reduce your HQ/skill-up rates sometimes.... or NOT code them in. And we can try to figure out how it all works. The previous system was arguably bad because it was easy to figure out the effects moon/day/direction had on crafting. They were obvious (getting T2 rates on a T1 craft?)

If I were Nasomi, I would simply make the effects much more subtle, and maybe even inconsistent in some ways, so that we can come up with theories and try to figure out how to get the best HQ rates. Just like people did back in the day (even if it turns out they were 100% wrong).

Basically what I'm saying is I think it's too early to give up testing and assume everything is exactly how we now know retail was. If Nasomi liked the idea of having moon/day/direction affect crafting, than it might not be the case that he got rid of them entirely. And even if he did, I'm still going to have some fun collecting data on my synths and looking for any patterns, because why not.

for the record, went 50/91 (54.9%) HQ synth on T3, 100% full moon light day.