Architect Archive

Ok so I track down my freshly spawned vein of carbonate ore, and plop down 20 mediums harvesters with help from a few friends of course.

I go to each one and carefully pay 7500 maintenance on each and every one and double check them after I do it, except the last one which i made the all too common mistake of paying 75,000 in maintenance... so much for being careful. Moving on.....

So within 5 minutes all harvesters have been paid the same amount except that 1 pesky credit sucker and double checked. Then i power them in the same way except no mistakes this time.

So they are all good for 5 days, and 1 is good for 50 days. Hah like ill get to use that.

I go back and check up on them 3 days later. Here is where the fun begins.

First 2 harvesters have 2 days left as they should.

Next 4 harvesters have 1 day left as they should NOT.

Next 4 harvesters have 16 hours left as they definately should NOT.

I bugged this etc etc .. **edit** going on.. anyone else notice stuff like this?

i've seen the same thing, albeit in smaller chunks. I tend to power and maintain my harvesters in 24 hour periods. So imagine my shock when i come back the next day (2 hours earlier) and find my harvesters starting to decay...

This **edit** bug has cost me thousands in repair costs, and who knows how much in lost fees. They really need to fix it.

Tempus

yes this has happened to me also, although I got a nice little present in the Hopper... 12K of the resource! *hehe*

Oh and one last comment - **edit** you must be rich

Well believe it or not i dont consider myself rich.. i consider myself overworked in a game lol.. master architects quitting left and right gives me more business than i can handle.

Today alone i used up over 300,000 minerals and I made less than 10 buildings. I have people hounding me for millions worth of minerals more.

I could be rich i guess but I try to charge a fair price for my stuff. I mine all my minerals myself with the help of friends so i charge under the going rate of the bazaar which is 5 per currently on my server.

I do have 1.5 mil in the bank but ive hit this mark several times and after mineral shifts, moving harvester, maintenance cost etc etc i can easily drop down to 500k in 2 days and sometimes below.

Architect is a demanding profession with lots of time and work involved, but i do enjoy it, just not all the time like when im getting 14 tells at once etc.

PA supported architecture is way easier. You don't have to be rich with a dozen people paying dues.