Fast SC

Asking anyone how to make construction, crafting or smithing faster and the usual answer will be "play fast sc". It's a tad more complicated than that.

The short of it is Fast SC is a clan chat dedicated to making Stealing Creations go fast by eliminating the combat aspect. Everyone is expected to wield a bow with no arrows and help by calling in the chat where the clay deposits are hiding.

Now for the long version. On the RSOF under Events is a thread titled Fast Sc: NonCombat Sc Clan 6.5 (lazy may clicky here). Read the first couple of pages to get an idea for acceptable behavior and what will get you kicked/banned. The group typically can be found on W99. Joining the chat can be done by typing "fast sc" after clicking join a clan. Hop one of the stiles into the clan holding pen and wait for the massive crowd if there isn't one. The chat will tell you if they're close to completing a game.

The clan's basic rules are pretty straightforward:

1. Always wield a bow (no arrows). Doing this means you can't accidentally attack someone.
2. No armor of any kind, this includes mage hats.
3. No thieving/pickpocketing
4. Don't put barriers around clay locations. The whole point of Fast SC is to get all the clay picked/processed by EVERYONE as quickly as possible.
5. Call out any clay locations. The code is not hard to understand once you get the hang of it (C4s = class 4 swarm for example). Frags or rags are those low level fragments. Giving calls in the cc helps make the game go faster.

They get their share of griefers, mostly in the form of pkers (typically mages). The idea is to get those sc tools as fast as possible and getting into fights only prolongs the games. If you want to pk, go over to regular Stealing Creations.

Here's my strategy which may help.

When game starts, head out to the nearest frag spot and get 5 frags. Run to the nearest kiln and make 1 of each: hatchet, pickaxe, butterfly net, harpoon and a bow. Equip the bow asap, then go hunt around for the best clay you can process. Keep an eye on the chat for clay calls because it seems the cc has scouters for that. Once you get to the best clay you can make stuff with, get 1 clay, run to a kiln and make a new piece of equipment in order to get clay faster. After that, get a load of clay and hit the kiln again. Make replacements of the old frag tools, a summoning pouch and the rest make into scrolls. Summon your familiar and deposit your frag tools into it. Now, just run around gathering all the clay you can and processing it into scrolls. I make scrolls because they can't be used for combat like arrows or runes. Keep gathering until the one minute warning appears. That means all the clay is gone and you've got to hustle your butt back to base. Deposit all your tools into your summon and use the Clay Deposit ability to send all your tools to your base. Run to base, take off your bow and deposit your inventory.