Architect Archive

i know with weapons it can make them much better, same with armor. but as an architect i can experiment but it doesn't seem to do anything. who cares about quality on a chair? they don't give any kind of healing bonus and they don't decay.. so whats the point?

buildings? decay rate doesn't mean you need less maintance. same with harvesters. storage doesn't mean you get more storage, and effectiveness doesn't do anything either.

so is there a reason to experiment?

Yup, it would be nice if on structures at least, experimentation actually effected anything. Experimental durability could lower the maintenance fees, while experimental efficiency could lower the power costs. As it is, experimentation is a total joke from what I've seen.

Careful what you wish for. If they implemented experimentation then it would be required, because they'd make the other stuff much less valuable.

So it's ok if you have lots of time to kill...

Experentation doesn't do a single thing in architecture.

- does not give more experience

- does not improve any structure in any way

- wastes time

Now, that said, I would welcome any proof anyone has that it does anything. I have heard lots of rumors that it "did something on mine." None of these were able to be proven. If you can improve something, report how you did it so we can verify your results.

Hopefully by the time player cities come out there will be some reason to do it. I suggest that items that have been experemented on and thus improved can reduce the chance of critical failures.

I like to get maximum experimentation on ‘quality’ of couches… that way I can honestly say “the most comfortable couch in the galaxy” because the best anyone else could to is also be the most comfortable :-)

Maybe they’ll fix it some day, and for that I experiment with my final product.

None that I've found.

I experiment with efficiancy, though I seriously doubt is does anything

well. yes. i can experiment as well. i got a wind generator to 50% durability and 70% efficiency. but i gave it to a friend and i doubt that it does anything different.

Its just stupid that there is a whole branch for experimentation, yet it does nothing. Im sick of failing structure modules at master architect, take out the critical failures, but I have never seen a dev or csr or tsr on this board, so we are just wasting our time.

I experimented a personal gas harvester deed to 78% & placed it & an unexperimented one side by side - no diff at all over a 3 day period on either maintenance, amount harvested or power used. Doubt experimenting on structures makes ne diff at all.

I experimented on a Solar machine one day.. had a critical fail on experiment. it said its effective would be 1%. I placed harv beside another one and never saw a difference in their outputs/capacity.

Woolly

And Sien I feel for you. I thought I was going to put my fist through monitor failing on a structural module. I never make them by hand anymore. Factory runs of 100 a pop. Now if only factory crates worked correctly !!!