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Thread: Am I alone in my approach to resources ?
I harvest all the good quality stuff myself and buy ore/junk metal. With 3 accounts I have 20 harvesters I can move around. (The rest are in storage/factories) 
When there isn't a good spawn of high quality material I put them all on ore. Even though harvesting can be a bit frustrating at times (surveying in particular) I would not miss it, I like finding a good spot and check up on it from time to time.
It is however, NOT fun when you find out a SUPER resources has just spawned and its already way past the time you should be in bed so you are not a zombie at work the day after.... but my colleagues are getting used to me looking like something out of a zombie movie. 
Try this approach, It's made me a rich man.
I use my lots exclusively to mine whatever is in the most demand, mineral , flora, chem. Just whatever has the potential to bring the highest CPU. If thats a good architect steel then even better. I sell any resources that I don't personally use. I buy all grind materials at 2cpu or below. Why waste a perfectly good heavy harvestor mining ore for walls when you can get the same amount of a resourceto sell at 3 times the price of ore?
I mine everything. I have 19 static lots that I traded/or rent. I have 9 lots from me and my alt to move to the hot stuff. I will mine anything that I feel is valuble, whether I will use it or not. There is nothing like sitting on 200k of OMG reactive gas for a rainy day.
So yes, the idea of mining an uber resource that isn't directly useful to you as an architect, either for money or for trade, is obviously an angle that we should all be aware of.
I have harvested 90% of my own resources. I buy power, and if I can find ore cheap or other stuff at 2 cpu I will buy it. On Intrepid almost no one is willing to mine ore at 2 cpu. It is in lower concentrations and lower demand.
I have 5 borrowed lots from PA friends, 4 lots on 1 char, 8 lots on my alt, and 10 lots from a server swap. Takes a lot of my time checking harvs every other day, but only way I can imagine making money.
It allows me to sell cheap to PA members and still make a profit. With demand for deeds going way way down, I can't imagine how anyone who buys resources can compete. If I have to I can sell deeds for 2cpu and still make a profit.
ZenDragonMLS wrote:
Both Rurry and WellDone reminded me of something. In general, I *don't* mine arbitrary resources that might not be useful for architects, because I really don't want to screw with selling them. However, there have been a couple of cases where I've mined up some really uber stuff (e.g., reactive gas with very high OQ). Then rather than selling it directly, I told people that I was willing to trade them like 2:1 or 3:1 for the same type of material with crappy stats. So that way I put the burden on them to come up with 400K of arbitrary reactive gas to trade for my 200K. That was my way of essentially "mining" 2X what I could have done given my lots, so it was a leverage play. I've done the same thing with super copper for crappy copper.
So yes, the idea of mining an uber resource that isn't directly useful to you as an architect, either for money or for trade, is obviously an angle that we should all be aware of.
This is a very interesting idea. Something to try out, definitely.
KRONOS1974 wrote:
I just saved up enough material in 2 weeks to make 50 of everything that i plan on having a grand opening of my shop that i should have had months ago but didnt have the materials
I am a relatively new Master Architect and master Droid engineerin the city of Aridis on Rori, who is high quality but low volume, and I harvest all my own resources, unless I find a good deal on a vendor or the bazaar on something. I must be the only casual player architect out there, as though I play some every day, I have no alt, have done no lot swapping and have only 6 lots borrowed from a friend for static structures. I use my 7 available lots and rotate them through fusion, mineral, chem and occasionally gas depending on what I need and what is good. True I can't mass produce (and don't want to otherwise this will become a job for me instead of a game), and I only have 4 million in the bank (unlike the multimillionaires I know are out there), but I enjoy my time crafting and meeting people. Wonder if there are other casual architects out there like me
I might as well take this opportunity to thank the other architects out there who have developed the many FAQ documents that have been helpful to me over the last 3 months since I have begun the road to Architect. My one wish for the future is to have us crafters play a roll (non-combat obviously) in various story arcs and the Galactic civil war which seems to be a combat only option at this point. I don't plan on changing this character and would like some varied things to do as an Architect in that context
Patriot Kershalt
Master Architect, Master Droid Engineer, Master Artisan
Aridis, Rori
Rurry wrote:
I mine everything. I have 19 static lots that I traded/or rent. I have 9 lots from me and my alt to move to the hot stuff. I will mine anything that I feel is valuble, whether I will use it or not. There is nothing like sitting on 200k of OMG reactive gas for a rainy day.
I have been an architech since week2 (dont let the forums registration date fool you), and I have almost always harvested my own resources. Buy only when Im in a pinch, plus I harvest for WS, Archy and resource sales. I also have the use of guildmates to drop extractors for me, usually free of charge, which is a huge help. I will buy the occational crate of walls if I loose track of what I have in stock (not hard in 5 houses and 3 bank safety-boxes... hehe). But you figure you can pull resources for .3-.5 cpu... I like to see you get a miner sell to you for that price.
I do employ miners, but for WS resources if I run outta (borrowed) lots. Architech is one of the lowest paid crafters ("###K for a guildhall? Are you CRAZY?") and it cuts a big % out of your profits (as they are) if you pay for your resources IMO.