When will the high level stuff be released?

I am usually totally behind all your arguments - but have to heavily insists here that this perception isnt right. Especially in tools you have 2 sets of options - the UL and the L tools. Decay on the UL tools is easily comparable to armors - so recrafting those isnt happening very often either. On top of that you have tools basically never being replaced or very seldomly crafted as the users lack the knowledge that those are available or even better what they have. Start with life scanners of higher levels providing a higher range - only pretty old players order those nowadays actually. Same goes for higher level refiners etc. - so there are also many BPs that dont get clicked that often.

As of the levels you have to craft for grinding - i made a similar post on PCF - its +- 3 levels from the BP you are crafting on. Thats the general perception - in extremely rare cases you can actually get up to +5 which basically hasnt happen more than a few times since EU exists.

 

I would actually add a few more comments that might enlighten the situation a bit and provides more answers to the OP.

As Tim already mentioned - a crafter is usually not grinding. Those people grinding are usually the ones who just want to make money from selling the BPs at highest possible price then as it would be the first ones. An easy way to support dropping more BPs and also higher BPs is simply: Buy the products of Ark crafters. Might sound like i am jumping here for my own case - which isnt totally wrong ofc. The more often we crafters are going to reproduce stuff the higher chances will be that more and more will be discovered.

For me personally i dont see any real need anymore to continue grinding for anything higher as the market isnt even there. I have had gyro fap up to level 18 and 22 in auction for quite some time - none sold in due time - both on Arkadia and Calypso btw.

 

That +5 was true just for short not sure if it was a bug or a change that when back but i am almost positive that is not possible nowdays
Btw here my first discovery doing a lvl 1 bp and getting the manis lvl 5 bp long long ago, but not possible any longer

 

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the pulsar 8 plates are designed to be common usage plates, not as 2-7 which are specific dmg and so have a niche market while the 8s are targeted as most hunter population, would you want to rely on only 1 crafter for your day to day plates? As we dont have unL plates i guess they want to gurantee a steady supply of them

On the other hand you have a rare bp that dropped that i would say is the asi-40 arctic which hasnt appeared again and i tried hard for it, asi-40arctic is a niche market bp so should be very rare, doesnt matter much if crafter is not playing or lazy as most will have other options easy abailable while the plates if missing you dont have a close local alternative

Right now main problem i see is that we are lacking weapons amps, so far we only have the 2 smallest ones, local L bps of weapons amp are Boosted so they drop very rarely or with very few clicks, the general ones that drops require robot components which cant be found in arkadia so makes the find of them really hard, i think if the unL prints are also designed as i think very rare drops at least should be added some drops in hunting for a while to help adding more weapons amps in market