Architect Archive
Thread: Architects & Building Lots
Everyone gets 10 building lots. As an Architect, here's my obvious dilemma....
I feel I need at least a Medium House to display my furniture goods (even then I don't have room to display very much). People stop to look at the signs on Medium houses. As of tonights nerf, Medium Houses take 4 lots.
Every Architect who wishes to build Large anything needs a Factory. All factories are 1 lot, except ours. Which are 2. /minor grumble
So unless you have friends willing to give you their lots, that leaves us with only3 lots for harvesters (since one of them needs to be Wind/Solar/Fusion), to produce structures that require (on my server, Eclipse) 35x the resources for roughly the same amount of cash. (Comparing the laser rifle I purchased today @ 16kthat uses 125 resources to manufacture, versus a Solar Harvester which I'm lucky to get 15k for & uses 4,430 resources).
I don't want this to be another thread about our ridiculously low prices, but instead I want to stress that while our items require tens of thousands of resources (20-50x all other Artisans), we actually have less capability to mine our own resources than any other Artisan. This seems silly & backwards. The real problem comes with trying to pay maintenance on your harvesters when you're only pulling in enough resources to build something every 2-3 days.
Ok, enough of the whining. What could be done about it? To rectify this disparity, I would like to see on the Construction skill tree the bonus of +1 building lot at each level, similar to the extra Vendors that other professions get as you advance along the Business/Merchant tree. At Master Architect you'd plateau at 15 lots for Buildings ... for the profession whose virtual lives revolve around Buildings.
Thoughts, flames, criticism?
dacton73 wrote:
Everyone gets 10 building lots. As an Architect, here's my obvious dilemma....
I feel I need at least a Medium House to display my furniture goods (even then I don't have room to display very much). People stop to look at the signs on Medium houses. As of tonights nerf, Medium Houses take 4 lots.
Every Architect who wishes to build Large anything needs a Factory. All factories are 1 lot, except ours. Which are 2. /minor grumble
Medium houses have always been 4 lots, Large Houses 6.
If the Food and Wearables factory only take 1 then that needs to be looked into. I could somewhat understand the Equipment being 1 and Structure being 2 because of the size of thw buildings. But if Structure is the only 2 lot Factory then I think they need to change it to 1.
Zirocwrote:
Medium houses have always been 4 lots, Large Houses 6.
Er ... not true. Until 2 hours ago, Medium Tatooine houses on Eclipse have always been 2 lots. I keep meticulous track of how many structures I have and where. For the last several weeks I have operated either 1 small/medium house & 8 harvesters, or 1 small/medium house, 1 factory & 6 harvesters.
Earlier I took down 5 harvesters when the resources shifted. I put 2 back up, and now have 1 lot left. Medium houses used to be 2 lots.
You encountered a bug then. Houses have been Small 2, Medium 4, and Large 6 since day 1. They didnt just up and change this today.
dacton73 wrote:
Er ... not true. Until 2 hours ago, Medium Tatooine houses on Eclipse have always been 2 lots. I keep meticulous track of how many structures I have and where. For the last several weeks I have operated either 1 small/medium house & 8 harvesters, or 1 small/medium house, 1 factory & 6 harvesters.
Earlier I took down 5 harvesters when the resources shifted. I put 2 back up, and now have 1 lot left. Medium houses used to be 2 lots.
Please be more specific about which Medium House you have and how many lots it uses. It is possible that other planetary medium houses use more/less lots then others.
My Medium Naboo House only uses 2 lots.
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You encountered a bug then. Houses have been Small 2, Medium 4, and Large 6 since day 1. They didnt just up and change this today.
No, they did just "up and change" today. I've been building small & medium houses for weeks. Every single person on Tatooine - Eclipse has has 2-lot medium houses since the game released. Given that small are 2 & large are 6, did it immediately occur to me that they should be 4 lots? Well of course. But it did just change, which is all I ever said about that subject to begin with.
Good way to de-rail the thread right at the get-go tho.
Medium Corellia put up a week ago. 4 Lots. Before I built it I asked a friend and EQ Guildmate who was in beta how many they took and he told me it was 2, 4, 6. Ofcoarse other models might be buged like the PA Halls with a Tatooine taking 7 when the rest take 9.
In a last-ditch attempt to get the thread back to its actual point ... what are folks thoughts on the following proposal?
The Construction skill tree gets a bonus of +1 building lot at each level, similar to the extra Vendors that other professions get as you advance along the Business/Merchant tree. At Master Architect you'd plateau at 15 lots for Buildings.
med naboo radiant 2 lots.
i support anything that keeps you idiots from charging a stupid-low price for your hard-worked for houses...
1.) everyone will be a millionar
2.) we should be billionars
3.) you guys settle for less than you could make doing delivery runs! WTheck is that!?
Well, i just put up a medium Corellian today...2 lots.
I have heard (for weeks now) that a medium Corellian takes 2 lots, a medium naboo takes 4. *shrugs*
Maybe it depends on style and floorplan.
There is ony 1 style of Medium Corellia. I built the house for someone else, but since I only had 2 lots left I tested to see exactly how many because the buyer had said he heard 2 and I got the message I can not place because it required 4 lots. Maybe after building it was only using 2 lots instead of the 4 it should, but you still needed 4 free lots to place it. I would need to contact the buyer and see how many lots it actually placed. I am only going by what the message I got when I tried placing it with only 2 free lots a week ago, and what my friend in beta said.
Ziroc wrote:
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[QUOTE]Every Architect who wishes to build Large anything needs a Factory. All factories are 1 lot, except ours. Which are 2. /minor grumble [/QUOTE]
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Um, perhaps.... MAJOR GRUMBLE!
We should only have to use 1 lot for our factory and should get 4 more on top of our current 10. The idea that only our factory takes2 lots is just a kick to the crotch of all architects.