Architect Archive

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KRONOS1974 wrote:

I have made more than 100million from this profession. Then again ive been doing this a long time. And if you cant make this amount of money it is you that should drop architect, plain and simple.

Edited that line, its hard to make this much money these days in architect business.

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Thanks for editing that Kronos, i never made that much, and i've been Arch for a year now. I kinda felt like a failure for a minute LOL.

However my goal was never to make money and just to have fun. Making credits was only to support the stuff i have fun with (listed above). These changes i see negatively impact both of those, which is why i have some complaints

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admrl_pellaeon wrote:
I personally have talked with people who have been gone for 6+ mos, then came back to a fully stocked house because they put insane amounts of maintenance in it. I have also talked to people who came back and had lost their house due to insufficient maintenance, but still had millions of creds in the bank, so the loss was a just a minor inconvenience. [Emphasis added] I agree with the maintenance from bank, FOR NOW, because it severely ticked me off when someone who hadn't been on for a long time comes back and has more creds than I've ever had, and got a visit from the old man a few hours after they logged in. I think this is a great money sink for those who have been out of it for a while, let them log in with less cash than those of us who play almost every day, they'll still have all their uber weapons and armor, but no cash, let them have to re-earn all of it.

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: puts on "Post Nazi" hat

Ok. lets' discuss run-on sentences, and lack of paragraph breaks. No, on second thought, you've mastered the first and are on the way with the second. It hurt my eyes to deceipher all that, but in the end I think your point was "maintenance drains bank accounts of inactive players and this is good."

Crimsonsplat, first of all, when I'm on a rant, proper grammar doesn't matter to me. I t would be hard for me to care less about it. Yes, your summary of my post was correct. However, it has been a long time since high school english class, so some of it may be a little rusty. After all, its not as if I have to write an essay or report every day in the real world. If my run-on sentences bother you that much, you must either have an English Degree of some sort, or you must not have spent much time in the real world-- I can remember when I would have complained about something as insignificant as the grammar on a forum post, but several years in the real world have mellowed me A LOT and I hope that you will eventually learn which battles are worth fighting and which are not. Barring either of those, PM me and I will give you some suggestions as to what you can do with your "Post Nazi Hat." Also, my math skills are excellent, thank you. They are much better than my grammar skills ever were, so don't make smart-a** comments based on your errant assumptions.

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I personally think that the maintenance from bank will be a flag of some sort for the devs to look for when they get around to doing a character/building purge. Even with this patch, I still check maint on my buildings, and I know several other people that do the same. It's force of habit at this point. Nothing says "Purge Me" like an account that hasn't logged on in a few months and has all maint for all or most of the buildings coming from the bank and not from the building itself. So I am going to go out on a limb here and make the assumption that this will be another little sign for the devs to examine before they decide on purging an account, meaning that maint from bank IS NOT irrelevant, its just not as big a deal as everyone is making of it.

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Cafa wrote:

What really has mattered in this market over the long run, is that I keep my vendor fully stocked. To this day, I sell 40 to 50 heavies every single time an outstanding resource hits.

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Exactly. I think this is the only way to actually make some decent cash with Architect. My customers know I'm almost always stocked with everything an Architect can possibly make or sell, so they don't mind paying a bit more for things (although I'm convinced my prices are still more than fair). And if for some reason something is sold out, I can have it ready the next day.

I must admit though, if you're a casual player who only plays during the weekend for example, building up a reputation is much harder and it will betough to stay in business. But with the right price, location and service, you can still find your way.

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admrl_pellaeon wrote:
Crimsonsplat, first of all, when I'm on a rant, proper grammar doesn't matter to me. I t would be hard for me to care less about it. Yes, your summary of my post was correct. However, it has been a long time since high school english class, so some of ... (snip). Barring either of those, PM me and I will give you some suggestions as to what you can do with your "Post Nazi Hat." Also, my math skills are excellent, thank you. They are much better than my grammar skills ever were, so don't make smart-a** comments based on your errant assumptions.

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I personally think that the maintenance from bank will be a flag of some sort for the devs to look for when they get around to doing a character/building purge.

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Keep your grubby fingers off my post nazi hat!

First off, I'm not criticizing your grammar. I don't expect much on the internet anymore. I'm critiziing your style, which is getting in the way of your message.(that's actually alefthanded compliment--if your pointhadn't been interesting, I'd have justskipped your post completely instead of skimming it andbagging onyou.) I've also learned it's not worth it to fight some battles (though I admit a weakness -- sometimes I do it just to lay a little smack down when I feel snarky, and yesterday was major snark timefor reasons I won't go into).

Your math skills may be better, but please remember to apply them in the future (see my last paragraph).

As for the flag, very good point, I think you may have it it on the head there. I speculated earlier this morning over in the purge thread, that the reasonthe purgehadn't happened is that SOE decided it would be a horrible move as conceived. It would delete billions of resources and credits of merchandise per server, and the resulting petitions and bad PR would be horrible. So they were using the extra time to see which homes were receiving regular maintenance payments, and the purge would take place just before the release of Episode III. Didn't think in terms of using the bank maintenance as a flag at all.

I know when I left, I put 90-100 days of maintenance in all my structures, just in case I came back.Zeroed my bank account at the time, but came back to 1.8 million (sales off my vendors before they delisted and eventually rotted). The bank would have kept my house going for 5 years.