[Auraeon]

Apparently your synthesis can be interrupted just because the Vana'diel Gods wish it to be so.

Randomly interrupted last night:



Again this morning:



Yet again a minute later, and at this point I was getting a bit frustrated. Not because I was losing gil, but because SE completely fails at programming.



Then guess what? It happened again a minute after that.



Now I was steaming mad. But guess what? Vana'diel Gods don't care! Because it happened again right after I sent in a GM call request.




GM says everything is working as intended. No surprise there.






To sum it all up: Crafting is absolute chance (I'm sure we all know this), and apparently you have to worry about randomly being interrupted for no reason at all on top of the chance of failing a recipe that you're ~100 skill levels over cap on.

GG SE

[xurion]

In all my years of crafting I have never seen that, or know of anyone who has accept you.

Logic therefor dictates you are doing something different in order for this to happen. Screenshots are vague because you can't see what happened before or after.

Don't take what the GM said as confirmation of what you think. In my experience, they always say things that avoid the real question. In this case, the GM did not say "yes, you can be interupted randomly for no reason" whereas he/she said that it works as intended, meaning you were interupted for a reason.

[alaan]

This happened to me the other day actually, however I'm not very good at crafting, or experienced, thought I just broke with no loss of mats. Wasn't really paying attention, but I did note that it said interrupted. Kinda thought I was crazy but I did not think anything of it, I was bored and was only doing a few pearl/black pearl synths and got this once in maybe 2 dozen attempts. Nowhere near as common as your experience.

[Nudecke]

I also experienced this problem a few times. Not very often at all but I never did anything and nothing was cast on me. However, every time it happened, I did set my controller down but no buttons were pressed. I just avoid setting my controller down at the start of synthesis, maybe you did that?

[Wrish]

Noticed this three times in all my crafting - i.e., once in a blue moon. The actual syntheses took place, consistent with two successes and one guaranteed break-synth. You just don't get a message stating what was made/lost, or what skill you gained.

[.Sotek.]

I've had HQ animations that produce NQ stuff and very fast crafting animtaions that breaks and I HQ or NQ with the same message.

Did you actually lose mats or are you going off the message you get?

[xurion]

I also have seen fast animations before, and sometimes a break animation where actually, at the bottom of my inventory was the successfully synthed item.

Although I haven't seen these for a long time. I had assumed they had been fixed by SE.

[Phlow]

The only thing I can think of is connection time outs.

How stable is your connection?

[Greeber]

well this morning i was making up a few cursed togis and i really wasent paying attention and put too much materials in. now usually it will say "Synthesis cancled. That combination of materials cannot be synthesized." and after that u usually have to wait a few moments to try and craft again. but this morning i got a simple message saying "Too many materials" i had everything in there but i just put an extra tiger leather w/o realizing it lol. It kinda freaked me out since in 5 years of crafting...thats the first time ive ever seen that message.

Also i always thought the interuption only came about when someone cured/casted a spell on u while u were crafting. i was certian that they made a patch for that years ago though. I can also confirm that u will break if u D/C while crafting...its cost me a couple hundred K already lol.

[xurion]

well this morning i was making up a few cursed togis and i really wasent paying attention and put too much materials in. now usually it will say "Synthesis cancled. That combination of materials cannot be synthesized." and after that u usually have to wait a few moments to try and craft again. but this morning i got a simple message saying "Too many materials" i had everything in there but i just put an extra tiger leather w/o realizing it lol. It kinda freaked me out since in 5 years of crafting...thats the first time ive ever seen that message.

Also i always thought the interuption only came about when someone cured/casted a spell on u while u were crafting. i was certian that they made a patch for that years ago though. I can also confirm that u will break if u D/C while crafting...its cost me a couple hundred K already lol.

I dc all the time and I'm always ok. Yeah I break sometimes but not every time I dc, hardly at all.

Too many materials is (as far as I am aware) when you put 9 seperate materials in the materials selection boxes.

[Icerat]

Also i always thought the interuption only came about when someone cured/casted a spell on u while u were crafting. i was certian that they made a patch for that years ago though.

That has happened to be before and maybe while being checked too but like Greeber said I thought that was fixed a long time ago.

[Greeber]

I dc all the time and I'm always ok. Yeah I break sometimes but not every time I dc, hardly at all.

Too many materials is (as far as I am aware) when you put 9 seperate materials in the materials selection boxes.

well i rarely D/C too but when i do while synthing i always break...just my luck i guess lol. hell the first time i ever tried a cursed togi my connection diped out and i had a crit fail lol (yes i will never forget that, 1 mil down the drain when i had a total of 1.1 mil before i tried to craft it lol)

[SpringLove]

never happened to me and im 98+3 cloth and 60 leather... might be something new.. i do know ive experienced strange lag anomalies before where the crystal popped quickly but i never lost stuff like that.. i would be pissed if it was something expensive like a nobles tunic or cursed mitts...

sounds like squeenix trying to inflate gil by costing you crafting materials.. and make ingots spike to 1.5mil a piece. fuck square enix...

[Ballister]

I found the problem!
He needs to check his messages! 1 message 1 email! Shame on you!
Your welcome, I'm glad I could help you out.

JK of course, I've never seen something like this happen

[Zaft]

SpringLove, on 21 July 2009 - 02:11 PM, said:

never happened to me and im 98+3 cloth and 60 leather... might be something new.. i do know ive experienced strange lag anomalies before where the crystal popped quickly but i never lost stuff like that.. i would be pissed if it was something expensive like a nobles tunic or cursed mitts...

sounds like squeenix trying to inflate gil by costing you crafting materials.. and make ingots spike to 1.5mil a piece. fuck square enix...

...somehow I hiiiiiiiiiiiiiighly doubt it.

On the bright side, at least it was only lumber, and not expensive lumber at that.

[Punicesvir]

Had this happen to me while I was synthing beeswax. I had alchemy at 94 and was just synthing in Whitegate one day and I got the same exact error message. I called the GM like you did and he told me it was some sort of interruption server side yet there was nothing that could be done about it. Glad i only lost 3 chips and a water.

Basically crafting is very risky like you said. You have to worry about breaking and losing mats but now you have to worry about a random glitch.

[xurion]

Punicesvir, on 03 January 2010 - 11:09 PM, said:

Basically crafting is very risky like you said. You have to worry about breaking and losing mats but now you have to worry about a random glitch.

I disagree. I would compare this to someone having to worry about crashing their car because they were going to drive somewhere. It happens so little it's not worth thinking about.

[Mend]

The only thing I see going on is Sprinter's Shoes. I don't think I've ever paid attention whether I had them active or not, but without seeing anything else that's the only probable thing that could be going on.