
Arnn Stardust was a Master Armorsmith / Master Smuggler / Imperial Colonel on Kauri and specialized in faction armors, several years ago.
With two friends we have decided to come back on SWG and choose to be transfered on a more populated server: Chimaerae.
He was converted as Arnh Stardust a level 58 trader that just finished grinding two days ago.
Right now Arnh Stardust is Trader/Structure 90, his expertise being in harvest branch + a mix of artisan & structure.
I am focused on our harvesters, elites doesn't exist yet when we were playing.
I have done the schematics of various ber21 elite mining sub-components, my first elites (mineral) have a ber44.
I encounter one problem with a heavy mining sub-component: Turbo Fluidic Drilling Pump Unit that I can experiment only at ber6.
I can experiment the two others (Heavy Harvesting Mechanism and Ore Mining Unit ) to ber7.
The resources that I use are:
. Steel: Geolla, Duralloy Steel (Chimaera) an excellent "Current Resource".
. Chemical: Chemical Compound (recycled)
. Inert Gas: I don't have the name here but it does not matter I think.
When I look closer a couple of schematics are very similar Heavy Harvesting Mechanism and Turbo Fluidic Drilling Pump Unit, btw they appear together in the same patch.
Both schematics require Steel+Chemical so I use my best steel (rating 990) and my worst chemical (but without any HR/SR/UT).
Doing this Heavy Harvesting Mechanism reach ber7 while Turbo Fluidic Drilling Pump Unit seems capped at ber6, having 11 experimentation points do not help here.
What I am doing wrong?