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To Punt or Not?
Hello, Had a couple of questions that I figured that I run past the experts.
Anyway, my friends uncle is a lead maintenance guy for an apartment complex across the river from me, and wants to hire me on this summer to help him upgrade and repair the A/C units in the complex where he is in.
The old management staff pretty much let the place is dis-repair, and the new ones are trying to fix it.
Here is the deal, all the units are equipped with either 1.5 or 2 ton Packaged HVAC systems (looks like a Magic-Pak) and are made by Patco. The complex was build in 1980-81 and has about 425 units in it.
So far here is the deal, the A/C chassis are removable, and they are getting re-done as needed this year.
They actually paid for a load calculation (FREAKIN' AMAZING), and it turns out that some are undersided or oversized, and we are correcting this problem.
What we have are New compressors, coils, and Motors.
Now, all the units will be from 1.5 to 2.5 tons.
Here is my delima where I'm wondering to punt or not.
First off, they are all cap tubes, and they were thinking of installing TXV's in them to increase efficiency. I think this is a Horrible idea as the cap tubes have worked for the past 25+ years, and the current staff does not have a clue what to look for, nor will learn or pay to learn on the maintenace of these things.
Second, there are no High Side service ports installed. And the low side was only added on maintenance or repair when a system was re-built. They were shipped sealed.
Thrid, the "Charging Methods" used are not exactly the standard in the HVAC industry. Superheat and Subcooling are not in the Vocab of most od these folks. Charge to 60-70 PSI and stick a thermomoter in the discharge area and get it to 54-58* and it will work.
Now I used to do this work part time, and still do Vehicle A/C part time. I'm 608 and 609 certified, and the shop is surprising equipped with proper charging and recovey equipment.
The biggest question is, is it worh it? Now there is some prerry good $$$ involved here, but the level of headaches, espically with those TXV's could spell disaster.
Now I am sure that it will work, I would feel a lot better if the TXV's were nixed. The big question is, would you put yourself in this situation if given the opportunity, the only reason that I am even considering it is the $$$, that is it.
Oh the fun this could be.
If you got the time, take the money. I would not add TXVs. Guess they
all run on r22. Fix what they need, and let them be.
I worked one summer at a apartment complex many years ago, and they
were the same way (all apartment complexes usually are). They hired
me to assist their maintenance tech, who was a nice guy, but did not
know s**t. I was young at the time, and contracted with them, they
paid me by what part was changed, plus a flat fee for each day.
We went throught something like 120+ units. We replaced about 25+
compressors. I ended up having them as a customer for a few years
after that until the complex was sold. New owner did not want to pay
any $$ at all, so by by.
Yea, I was thinking the same thing. The TXV's just seem like they would be a nightmare in trying to install and maintain. Almost the same situation that you were in, the guy is nice and all, but him, and his 4 assistants really do not know Jack about HVAC. Just the bare minimum to get by.
All of the units are R22.
We do have a couple of "Test" units that we had with Alternate Referigernats, one Using R422D, R407, and ES22a. All seem to be work, but that seems to work the best in terms on energy costs and Cooling Capablity is the ES22a. I'm very impressed with it. Yea, I do know the components of it, and there are safety precautions with it, but it works with the least headaches.
I know that next week they are doing at least 6 units, maybe more. And this week will be 3.
The $$$ is great, but I just don't want the headaches. I'm thinking if they scrap the TXV idea, then it might be worth it.
Did anyone inspect the heat exchangers.
TXVs are gonna be more of a headache then anything on units like that.
It may cost more, but complete new units is a better way to go.
Yea, they had somebody else checking the heat exchangers and what not. They just called me in to assist with the A/C side of things.
I agree 100% that new units would be the key, but management is not going to do that in 98% of the cases that we see.
At least I feel better about the whole nix the TXV thing, they will just add problems.
Ok, well I have decided to work on an As Needed basis with this guy, the money is not bad, but there is some things that I will not do.
First off, I'm not that thrilled that there are no high side service ports.
Second, it's funny watching the looks on peoples face when you have a sling Psych and a thermo on the suction side. They just can't understand that "Beer Can Cold" and charging with a Therm. in the vent just does not cut it.
And I showed them that the temp numbers on the gauge really do mean something.
We also have a few "Experimental" systems set up using Alternate Referiferants. I will let you know how they go as we go along.
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We've all seen THAT cycle before.
Reminds me of an old buddy who was a supe, got a job at a high-rise. Management got bonuses for two years for keeping maintenance costs low. Then owners got on them for not renting the last two apartments out.
Then they got fired for having stripped the last two apartments of EVERYTHING in order to avoid buying parts to get their bonus. My buddy survived the cut and the owners got to pay 3 years worth of maintenance the following year restoring those 2 apartments.
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Marvel Vs Capcom 3 brings back all of the things we loved about old arcade titles... And more
A great game by all means, but has a couple balance issues with a few of the characters.
The classic crossover series triumphantly returns to usher in a new age of heroes.
The Good
- Fights are intense and engaging
- Huge and diverse cast of recognizable characters
- Superbly rendered characters, backgrounds, and animations
- Online play runs smoothly
- Simple mode is great for beginners.
The Bad
- Barebones multiplayer which lacks replay support
- Archaic story mode
- Mission mode missing key training tools.
After a decade of anticipation, and a few long months of speculation, Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds is upon us at last. This venerable fighting series, renowned for its structured insanity, has finally returned with the same fire and intensity that was its hallmark. However, not all the characters from the previous game have returned this time around--but not without good reason. Marvel vs. Capcom 2 was a game so completely dominated by a handful of characters and strategies that the majority of its design was rendered moot. Developer Capcom has since learned from this, and the changes made help distill this game's combat into a more well-rounded experience than ever before. The result is not the most technically demanding of fighters, but is certainly one of the most enjoyable. The white-knuckle intensity is still here--but this is not the same game you remember from 10 years ago.
In the extravagant world of Marvel vs. Capcom 3, there is rarely a dull moment. You and your opponent each have a team of three characters to battle it out in one frantic, continuous round accented by dazzling finishing moves and triple-digit combos. But beneath all its style, the game's core combat mechanics have been simplified and work harmoniously to drive you, and the action, forward. Locomotion plays a large role in this, even if the characters are slower than before. This change feels natural in the game's large arenas and affords you the time to plan out your next move without having to rely on blindly overwhelming your opponent. But even if you are slower, you never want to stop moving. There is safety in mobility when every character can clear the length of the arena in a single bound or pepper you with projectiles from a screen away. Stopping only makes things easier for your opponent.
Movement keeps the battle flowing and changing as you duck in and out of your opponent's reach, each side frantically searching for that break in the other's defenses. Sometimes opportunity is easy to spot. Other times you have to make your own luck. In either case, when it's time to strike, the number of tools you have in your arsenal is intoxicating. You might unleash a fierce flurry of blows, summon another character to take a quick shot, or employ a snap back attack for a more favorable match-up. When on the defense, a well-timed advancing guard can punish a nasty rushdown player, while a crossover counter can rescue a teammate under fire. Regardless, after each encounter you take away a little something to add to your repertoire--be it practice with your favorite go-to combo or knowledge that a new assist isn't all that great. There's a constant sense of progression as you endlessly experiment with new tricks and new combinations.
From beat to beat and blow to blow, it's the little touches that sell the experience. It's that slight pause at the start of a hyper combo--a breath just wide enough to fit a single expletive before the hammer falls--or the feeling of weight right as you launch someone into the air. It's the fact that combat can just as easily take place vertically as it can horizontally. The addition of the new launcher button helps expedite this process. And once you're airborne, a few quick hits lead you to an important crossroads: either end the combo safely or press your luck. If you go with the latter, you can bounce your opponent in one of four directions, after which you switch characters and continue the combo. That is, unless your opponent inputs the same direction as you, in which case you're the one who's sent tumbling down. It's a gamble, and one that keeps both sides of the beatdown engaged.
All of this would be enough, but then there's the x-factor. True to its namesake, the x-factor is your wild card in any match. Activated by pressing all four attack buttons, this ability temporarily increases your character's attack power and speed--and resets his or her current animation. Its potency and duration are determined by the number of team members you've lost, making it an excellent last resort to turn the tables on your opponent. But its applications run deeper than that. The simple animation reset lets you chain together moves that would otherwise be impossible, such as two super moves back-to-back. Or, if an opponent manages to flank you while you're caught helpless in a big attack, you can burn the x-factor to cancel that attack and face your opponent. The amount of diversity gained for something so simple makes this new feature a valuable tool rather than a mere gimmick.
Combat in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is an enjoyable blend of violence and intimacy. Surmounting your opponent is just as much about getting in his head as it is about getting around the controls. Some people like to mix things up and have fun, while others just want to win no matter the cost. Whatever your calling, finding characters who fit your style of play is paramount. This game offers a wide array of variations on a single character theme, as most of the rosters' techniques are executed in the same way. Several of the basic moves and combos you learn for one will easily transfer to several others. However, while these inputs may be similar, their outputs are wildly different. Every character brings something unique to the experience, and the game quickly moves from the tedium of learning individual commands, to the joys of mastering their timing and situational uses.
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It seems like there has to be some kind of setting in hibernate for this. With the jdbc version is changed the cursor to forward only from scroll sensitive. I'm assuming that hibernate must be using a scroll sensitive one as well. I'm not a hibernate expert, but it seems like there should be a way to control that.
You could also try using the normal DrivingQueryItemReader or JdbcCursorItemReader to grab the primary keys and use Hibernate in the Writer/Tranformer to load the object and do whatever is necessary in the context of a single commit interval.
Thanks for your answers, i will check if i can change the cursor to forward only.
To avoid those problems in future I implemented a DrivingHibernateCursorReader. The example the iBatis implemention gave to me was quite easy to transfer to hibernate. I'am now using a SingleColumn KeyGenerator that gets all keys via a JdbcTemplate. Then i chunk those in my DrivingItemReader and read with a statement like this: "select from Table where id < n+1000 and id > n" the read object chunks are then transfered into a queue from which the read method then reads the elements. An implementation where i just read one object for a key at a time performed to slow. Is this a good way to implement it? The performance decrease compared to the Cursor implementation is approx. at 15-20%.
This is how the statement is executed in JdbcCursorReader:
This is how the cursor is opened in the HibernateReader:PHP Code:
preparedStatement = this.con.prepareStatement(sql, ResultSet.TYPE_FORWARD_ONLY, ResultSet.CONCUR_READ_ONLY, ResultSet.HOLD_CURSORS_OVER_COMMIT);
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statelessSession = sessionFactory.openStatelessSession();
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org.hibernate.ScrollableResults scroll(org.hibernate.ScrollMode scrollMode) throws org.hibernate.HibernateException;
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Should i file a bug report?
That looks like it would be correct, although I would want to do some testing with it to ensure rollbacks were handled correctly.
Creating an issue with your full observations would be helpful.
Setting the cursor to FORWARD_ONLY does the trick. I will file a report.


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Skill: Enchanting |
Specialization: Magic |
Enchanting is the ability to add magical effects to items such as weapons, armor and clothes. Increasing this skill increases the amount of charges on a weapon or the quality of the enchant on the armor. The Enchanting skill tree has a total of 9 perks, requiring a total of 13 perk points to fill.
In-game Description: The more powerful the enchanter, the stronger the magic he can bind to his weapons and armor.
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[edit] Skill Perks
Perk | Rank | Description | ID | Skill Req. | Perk Req. |
Enchanter | 1 | New enchantments are 20% stronger. | 000bee97 | ||
2 | New enchantments are 40% stronger. | 000c367c | 20 Enchanting | ||
3 | New enchantments are 60% stronger. | 000c367d | 40 Enchanting | ||
4 | New enchantments are 80% stronger. | 000c367e | 60 Enchanting | ||
5 | New enchantments are 100% stronger. | 000c367f | 80 Enchanting | ||
Fire Enchanter | Fire enchantments are 25% stronger. | 00058f80 | 30 Enchanting | Enchanter | |
Frost Enchanter | Frost enchantments are 25% stronger. | 00058f81 | 40 Enchanting | Fire Enchanter | |
Storm Enchanter | Shock enchantments are 25% stronger. | 00058f82 | 50 Enchanting | Frost Enchanter | |
Insightful Enchanter | Skill enchantments are 25% stronger. | 00058f7e | 50 Enchanting | Enchanter | |
Corpus Enchanter | Health, magicka, and stamina enchantments are 25% stronger.† | 00058f7d | 70 Enchanting | Insightful Enchanter | |
Extra Effect | Can put two enchantments on the same item. | 00058f7f | 100 Enchanting | Corpus Enchanter or Storm Enchanter | |
Soul Squeezer | Soul gems provide extra magicka for recharging. (soul gems recharge twice as much magicka) | 00058f7c | 20 Enchanting | Enchanter | |
Soul Siphon | Death blows to creatures, but not people, trap 5% of the victim's soul, recharging the weapon. | 00108a44 | 40 Enchanting | Soul Squeezer |
[edit] Skill Usage
For details on available effects, see Enchanting Effects.
You Will Need
- An enchanted item from which to learn a new enchantment or an already learned enchantment.
- An item (weapon, armor, clothing, jewelry) that is not enchanted that you wish to enchant.
- A soul gem with a soul trapped in it.
- Access to an Arcane Enchanter.
To learn an enchantment
- Disenchant an enchanted item with the Arcane Enchanter to learn its enchantment permanently.
- The enchanted item is destroyed when you disenchant it.
- You will only learn the effect, the magnitude is unimportant.
- Not every enchanted item can be disenchanted. As a general rule, an item with a unique enchantment can't be disenchanted.
To Enchant an item
- Use an Arcane Enchanter.
- Select the item you wish to enchant.
- Select the enchantment you wish to apply.
- Select the soul gem you wish to use. The soul gem will be destroyed during the enchantment process (unless it is Azura's Star or the Black Star). The level of the soul held in the gem, your skill, and whether a Fortify Enchanting potion has just been quaffed all affect the amount of charges on a weapon, or the magnitude of the enchantment on apparel. See Effect Charges and Strength for a detailed description.
- You may rename the item if you wish:
- Select the Enchant option from the menu.
Optimizing enchanting/skill exploit:
- WARNING: Using this procedure, especially together with the "Fortify Restoration/Fortify Skill/equipping-unequiping" exploit described at the end of this topic, can be useful in giving you a boost. But it can also easily render the game so unbalanced that all challenge (and enjoyment) may be lost. If you wish to try it, save your game prior, and begin with modestly enhanced enchanting potions by performing the steps below once or twice, and avoid the "Fortify Restoration stacking exploit" described in the notes below the steps. Having enchantments that allow you to kill every enemy with one weapon strike, and making you virtually impervious to damage can become dull very quickly. For most players, lowering the difficulty level, temporarily or permanently, is a better way to increase your capabilities.
- Note: This procedure works because the Fortify Restoration effect strengthens the Fortify Skill effect, and Restoration is itself a skill. Some of the following information is at least somewhat incoherent because it has evolved haphazardly over numerous editors and through many versions of the game. Some things referenced may have been removed from the section, or may no longer work due to exploit patches contained in recent updates. It remains, and in its present imperfect form for now, because it has been popularly requested information.
- You can use these methods to increase your stats at any point, for any skill level, using this same method. However, you will benefit even more at higher alchemy, enchanting, and restoration skill levels, and should generally focus on increasing these before optimizing.
- Note: The Restoration potion exploit has been corrected by version 1.30 of the Unofficial Skyrim patch
- A procedure is:
- Wear four pieces of apparel enchanted with Fortify Alchemy (head, necklace, ring, arms).
- Craft a potion of fortify restoration at an alchemy table.
- Drink it.
- Steps 2-3 can be repeated multiple times.
- Craft a fortify enchanting potion.
- Use the enhanced fortify enchanting potion, along with powerful soul gems, to enchant one or more items.
- If you wear four fortify alchemy 20% pieces of apparel, and have 100 alchemy skill, as well as the benefactor perk, after two iterations you can equip a 25% fortify destruction/restoration/etc. enchanted gear and you will have 108% magicka reduction for that magic school as long as you never take that item off again.
- The earliest this is possible is level 7 with enchanting 20 and alchemy 30. You need to have the benefactor perk, physician perk (prerequisite for the benefactor), 2 levels in alchemist, and 2 levels in enchanter. You need four grand soul gems on four equipment with fortify alchemy.
- This Fortify Restoration potion exploit works because fortifying restoration strengthens any Restoration effect on an item, including Fortify Skill enchantments, and this effect of Restoration Potions stacks. By taking a Fortify Restoration potion prior to equipping Fortify Alchemy and Fortify Smithing items (or by taking several Fortify Restoration potions, since this exploit works on potions as well) you can increase the Fortify Smithing and Fortify Alchemy enchantment strength on items. Because the effect stacks with each potion taken (by un-equipping and reequipping the apparel after each potion taken), you can increase these enchantments exponentially and make exponentially more powerful Fortify Enchant potions with the Fortify Alchemy apparel.[verification needed — see talk page]
- Extremely high Fortify Enchantment effects may cause your game to crash when trying to enchant an item.
- Beware of creating overly powerful weapons. Even without following the above adjuncts it is possible to create a one hit/shot kill weapon. The problem arises if you have followers or NPCs you want to keep alive. You can accidentally send them to Sovngarde on a regular basis in the thick of the battles causing a lot of exasperating game reloads.
[edit] Tips on Soul Gems
- If a soul gem gets filled with a weaker type of soul, e.g. Grand Soul Gem (Petty), it can be emptied and reused by simply dropping it on the ground and picking it up.
- Your follower can act as your "soul harvester" if you give him/her a Soul Trap/Fiery Soul Trap enchanted weapon, and empty soul gems.
- Note that many followers are bugged so that they will continue to use their low quality default bow instead of the one you gave them that would trap souls. See the Followers article for more information on this.
[edit] Skill Increases
[edit] Character Creation
The following races have an initial skill bonus in Enchanting:
[edit] Trainers
- Sergius Turrianus in the College of Winterhold (Expert)
- Hamal in Markarth (Master)
- NelothDB in Tel Mithryn (Master)
[edit] Skill Books
- Catalogue of Armor Enchantments
- Catalogue of Weapon Enchantments
- Enchanter's Primer
- A Tragedy in Black
- Twin Secrets
[edit] Free Skill Boosts
- +1 Enchanting reward (+1 every magic skill) from Pantea Ateia (Bards College) for completing the quest Pantea's Flute.
- +5 Enchanting (+5 every magic skill) by selecting "The Path of Magic" when reading the Oghma Infinium after completing the quest Discerning the Transmundane.
[edit] Gaining Skill XP
- Crafting enchanted items gives the biggest overall skill increases.
- Disenchanting items gives widely varied skill increases, dependent on the effect learned and the magnitude on the item, with apparel effects generally giving larger increases than weapon effects. However, only one item per effect may ever be disenchanted.
- Recharging enchanted weapons using Soul Gems gives small to moderate skill increases, based on the size of the soul used. It does not matter how many charges there are left on the weapon. Using the Black Star and a Weapon with Soul Trap effect, you can train by recharging the weapon after every kill without having to worry about soul gems.
One way to level up Enchanting quickly is by disenchanting items - the more powerful the better - but will only get you so far. After that, you will have to advance by crafting items: acquire a number of filled soul gems of any size and the same number of unenchanted weapons or armor. Enchant all of them; preferably with the most expensive enchantment you know for maximum profit. Using The Mage Stone and a Sleeping bonus (such as Well Rested) will increase the experience you gain per enchantment.
[edit] Achievements
One achievement is related to enchanting:
- Artificer (10 points/Bronze) — Make a smithed item, an enchanted item, and a potion
- For the purposes of this achievement, disenchanting an item counts as "making" an enchanted item.
[edit] Notes
- It would appear that the Soul Siphon perk does not work with staffs, for which this perk would have been very useful.
- The Insightful Enchanter perk also affects new enchantments on clothing and jewelry, despite only specifying armor in the description.
- The Fire, Frost, Storm, Insightful and Corpus Enchanter perks, as well as the Extra Effect perk, will not change existing enchantments, despite the description differing from the base Enchanter perk. This means you will need to plan your enchantments carefully, or be prepared to craft or acquire new pieces of armor, clothing, or weapons as you increase your Enchanting skill.
- The Fire/Frost/Storm Enchanter Perks increase the value of your Fire/Frost/Shock Resistance enchants. Even if you have all three perks the value of Magic Resistance Enchant (general Magic Resistance, not from a particular school) will not increase.
- Magical effects available for enchanting are not related to the spells that you have learned. Enchanting is independent of the other magical skills.
- It is possible with enchanting to cast spells without using magicka. This can be done by wearing multiple pieces of armor/jewelry with multiple enchantments that reduce spell cost of a certain school with a combined total of 100% (or greater, though this has no effect beyond 100).
- As above, items with enchantments that reduce the magicka cost of spells will also affect charge levels on weapons associated with that school of magic. For example, with Armor, Helmet, Ring and Amulet all enchanted with at least -25% Skill Cost in Destruction, Chillrend will have infinite charge.
- The destruction perks that increase elemental damage directly affect elemental enchantments on weapons. Or more accurately, they increase the effective magnitude of an enchanted weapon at the time it is wielded by a player with destruction perks, but will not be applied to another character if given a weapon enchanted by a player with destruction perks. This effect is applied a second time when using a weapon with two such enchantments. With all relevant enchant perks combined with destruction perks fire +50%, and shock +50%, and a store bought +25% to enchant elixir you are able to create weapons that, when wielded by you will deal 78 fire and 78 shock damage (it will still be 39/39 for everybody else). Similarly, illusion enchantments are increased by Vampirism's 25% to illusion magic. This also stacks with the destruction perks if you make a Fire/Fear or similar weapon.
- A potion that increases destruction magic by X% will increase fire, shock and frost enchantments by the same percent.
- Other destruction perks that activate on elemental damage (such as Intense Flames) do not activate from elemental damage enchants on weapons.
- Enchanting a stolen item does not remove the stolen flag. Unlike in Oblivion and Morrowind, creating an enchanted item does not actually create a new copy of the weapon.
- For an easy way to level Enchanting, get Azura's Star and an enchanted weapon. Recharge your weapon after every enemy and you can gain a level every other kill.
- If your Enchanting skill is somewhat high, some guards will say, "Don't suppose you'd enchant my sword? Dull old blade can barely cut butter."
- Unlike in Oblivion, one is unable to apply a harmful enchantment to a piece of armor; therefore, a player cannot kill themselves or in-game NPCs via that method.
- You cannot place an enchantment over an existing enchantment on an item, although with the Extra Effect perk you can apply two enchantments to the same item, but the two effects must be applied at the same time. For instance, the Blade of Whiterun cannot be enchanted with a second effect because it is already enchanted.
- Dual-enchanting an item with the Extra Effect perk only requires a single soul gem, and both enchantments are as powerful as either one would be on its own (i.e, the strength of the soul is not split between the two enchantments).
- The Fiery Souls enchantment, obtained by disenchanting the Steel Battleaxe of Fiery Souls found only in Ironbind Barrow, includes two enchantment effects, Fire Damage and Soul Trap. Using this enchantment as one of the two applied with the Extra Effect perk is the only way for a player to create a weapon that has three enchantment effects (Fire Damage, Soul Trap, and one of your choice).
- The soul gem is destroyed unless you use The Black Star or Azura's Star
- If the enchanted weapon has two enchantments, it is only necessary to have cost reduction in the more powerful/expensive enchantment of two. For example, if you have Paralysis (Alteration) and Fire (Destruction), you only need to have 100% cost reduction in Alteration in order to get infinite charge.
- The highest value enchantments for increasing the value of unenchanted items for resale when using Petty souls are Banish for weapons, Fortify Block for shield, Fortify Destruction for armor and clothing, Waterbreathing for headgear and jewelry and Fortify sneak for footwear. (This may change depending on perks.[verification needed — see talk page])
- If enchanting for profit, keep in mind the actual value of the increase is additive and not multiplicative, so the value (in gold) that enchanting adds is same regardless of the value of the item being enchanted. For example, enchanting an Iron Sword with Turn Undead using a Grand Soul and all perks will result in a sword with the value of 513 (vs. the base price of 25), while an Orcish Bow enchanted with the exact same enchantment and under the same conditions will yield a new value of 638 (vs. the base price of 150). The price increases by 488 gold in both cases. Due to the way barter works in the game, it is more beneficial to enchant lower-value items for the purpose of resale.
- Use of the Staff EnchanterDB is unrelated to the Enchanting skill.
- Frost Damage, Resist Frost, and Chaos DamageDB enchantments placed on StalhrimDB weapons or armor are 25% stronger than the corresponding enchantments on other materials.
[edit] Bugs
- Renamed enchanted weapons (of the same type) that share the same effects but with different names will be named the same if you un-equip both.
- This bug is fixed by version 1.2 of the Official Skyrim Patch.
- The game may not recognize keystrokes from your keyboard when renaming an item you intend to enchant. It appears to occur when using the mouse during the process, so try to use only the arrow keys and [enter] to name your items.
- This bug is fixed by version 1.4.26 of the Official Skyrim Patch.
- Sometimes you will get stuck when trying to exit from using an arcane enchanter. You are unable to move or use HUD. The problem may fix itself in a minute or two. If not, it's best to save (if you can) and restart the game.
- This bug is fixed by version 1.4.26 of the Official Skyrim Patch.
- If you find yourself suddenly in first-person view while using an arcane enchanter, zoom out to third person and then exit the arcane enchanter.
- If you enchant improved armor, it may appear to lose any improved rating you may have applied through smithing (the UI will show it revert to its base specs). However, after enchanting the item - the item will in fact retain any improved rating.
- The following items can be disenchanted, but their enchantments cannot be applied to any item:
- Linwe's Armor - Shadowthrive (Increases your stamina by 15 points)
- Linwe's Boots - Shadowstrength (Sneaking is 15% better)
- Linwe's Hood - Shadowsight (Bows do 15% more damage)
- Linwe's Gloves - Shadowstrike (One-handed attacks do 15% more damage)
- The Bond of Matrimony - Blessing of Mara (Restoration spells cost 10% less)
- This bug is fixed by version 1.0 of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch.
- Disenchanting Necromancer Robes gives the Fortify Magicka effect instead of Fortify Magicka Regen effect.
- The Fortify 'Magic School' plus Magicka Regeneration enchant always gives 10% regeneration, instead of scaling with level or soul gem.
- Sometimes enchanting a new item that shares the effects with an enchanted item in your inventory will cause the item just enchanted to duplicate itself. This means you get two items. ?
- When enchanting items, the value of each item decreases as your enchanting level rises (as stated above). It is unknown whether this is a bug or an intended game mechanic. There are two fixes:
- Save, quit, and then reload your game after mass enchanting. The item value should rise and now reflect their true value. [verification needed — Conflicting reports.]
- Go to the enchanter, select any soul gem, and select the same enchantment (if it's a weapon enchantment select the same strength/number of charges). There is no need to actually craft an item - just exit enchanting and the value is restored. ?
- If an enchanted shield is automatically reequipped to the character by equipping a one-handed weapon after switching to a two-handed weapon or spell, the enchantments on the shield may not be applied to the character. ?


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IIRC, in our world European imperial expansion preceded industrialization. It started in the 1500's, and industrialization didn't start until the 1700s. Either way, we're several centuries away from that.
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They need to discover ALL of the ruins in Grecotha, and possibly find that someone has still been living where they took Cinhil to train him to be king. There are lots of loose ends. Where did all the monks at St. Neot's go? Where did all the Micheline's go? And what did they do when they got where they were going? More schools? Where they could be asked back to Gwyenned?lots of questions!!
As I said--"A thousand years without a bath," until Erasmus laid the egg that Luther hatched.
The influence of the Roman and Greek worlds on the Middle Ages was quite marked.What interests me from the Codex is that Rome never really fell it just gave up and the Byzantine Empire seems to be chugging along just fine (unless we're due a Mehmet the Conquerer or Suleman the Magnificent soon) so possibly these cultures have lost the mystery that made them so popular in the rennaissance as you can't rebirth a culture that never really died.Maybe I just don't want to see the XII Kingdoms turning into a bland modern democracy


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