Architect Archive

sorry man but welcome to the unreal world were people do this for................FUN..... that's right! and they aren't hording credits jsut making people happy. SO you the credit horder has to compete with those who are just our to socialize and help others. Completely impossible. and no company in R/L has a profit marg. of 50% your talking gross when you haven't figured in overhead. and even then alot of markets don't have that kind of overhead. but R/L aside b/c this isn't a r/l thing

Wick, if you read my post right, I'm not getting 50% profit margin and that's exactly my point. people only "thinks" it's a 50+% profit margin because they did not include ALL the costs, factor those in and the profit falls in line with what you listed.

I like helping people too, I give speical PA discount to PA members but I don't do that to total strangers or sell that price to the open market, but my PA subsidize me by PA dues and they would prefer to buy from me anyway that's why I can afford the speical PA discount.

As houseing prices are right now at 10k or less it will trickle down to medium houses next as people grind their way up the architect tree. soon everyone will have cheap houses and it will be impossible to sell anything for any kind of profit. it already is for small houses. I need to find a new line of work.

Having to sell mine on Ahazi for 11k =(

I sell all of my buildings for 3x's the resources used. If I can not get that then it is not worth my effort to construct the requested item. The UXP that everyone raves about is a Joke IMHO, heck half the time it doesn't even work. If it comes to the point that I must sell below 3x's the resources uesd, then my Architect will become a miner, and sell his materials on the open market. But it is my belief that things will stabilize over time, so I grit my teeth, and send a "congrats" to the guy thats says he can buy the same medium house I am building him for 30k instead of the 60k I am charging.

I totally agree with your pricing. Problem is there is always some fool out there willing to give stuff away.

Frankly I am about ready to give up on trying to sell structures. The way resources change so often I cant even make my maint. with out help from my armorsmith friend.

I know I haven't been able to sell a small house at 15K yet. I sold two but only by dropping price.

Not being PA backed, I can't afford to buy out my competition.

Do I think the price list is fair? Yes, definitely.

Do I see prices holding up in heavy crafter areas? No. There are too many people trying to "win". And they won't stop until Master.

My two credits anyway.

The only problem is say that you have someone want to buy something from you. Do you turn them away because you don't have materials on hand? If you don't turn them away and go to the bazaar I guarantee you'll be paying bear minimum 3 cpr and more than likely 4 or 5 cpr. Now factor in travel costs and you're selling at a loss. Resources are worth money and your time I hope is worth money, so realistically you're shooting yourself in the foot for selling for 3 cpr. More power to you.

On Bria I go

10k Sm Houses

60k Med

No lrg yet.

40k Factory

5k Med Moist &Mineral.. come on they are easy to make.

7k Solar

Don't even bother with Med Chem

I'm so glad I waited a couple days instead of starting on one of the first day servers, now. Those power gamers are collapsing their future right out from underneath themselves. 3 months from now, everyone will have gotten their house for 5k, and the architects will be out of business. There will be hundreds of retiredmaster architects running around with nothing to do because they can't maintain their extractors.

yeah i don't know why you guys are complaining about house prices, its not really THAT bad.

it costs me 750 credits x 7 harvesters = 5250

wind generators are more, not sure how much... i'll say double so 1500x3 = 4500

total cost per day: 9750

that brings in enough resources for me to build about 3 houses a day, if you sell those at 10k each thats 30k, even if you critically failed 2 out of the 3 houses, you are not losing money.

I'm not sure why you guys are complaining about 20k a day profit from doing VERY LITTLE work. I mean come on, go out to your harvesters, pick up everything, and it takes less than 10 minutes to build a house. Selling it might take a little while but not if you have a strong customer base/recommendations.

Lavoir:

A medium house uses like 20,600 resources, so someone selling it at 30,000 certainly isn't selling anything at 3 per resource.

If I were you, I would buy a bunch of those mediums from that guy at 30,000. That's just ridiculous, I am one of the "low-ballers" apparently, if you read half the posts on this subject, and I plan on asking 70K minimum for a medium house.

Lavoir:

I like even better how he quoted you 60K for a factory (13,400 resources) and only 30K for a medium house (20,600 resources). Not only is this guy's pricing low, he's set his medium price way off! Take advantage of that, QUICK.