Architect Archive
Thread: Do Architects make good money?
Arch, unlike most other crafting professions isn't one you can just go buy a few million resources off some vendor and start up selling product competitive w/ other people. Arch would wiz through that few million in nothing flat and you'd be stuck w/ an empty vendor and annoyed customers.
Being an arch means one of two things; either you've got huge harvester farms pumping out millions in resources very cheap or you've got the bank account to go buyout most resource vendors that sell cheap grind resources, and buyout regularly. That's how the bigger dealers do it, cause havesters and buildings require tons and tons of resources. It's a bulk business, and as cheap as we sell them, you have to sell in bulk to make some decent change.
There's also the more fun experiences of decorating and furniture, but those I don't think will get you as much money. You'd have to get different prespectives to figure out where you wanna be I guess. It will also depend on how much competition you've got on your server and what going rate for stuff is. I myself just sell harvesters and most recently got into crafting stations. One takes every grind resource I can find, other takes every high priced elite resource I can find. Together I managed 164M in sales in July. That's sales, not profit. I'm also selling heavies at 75k/ea now so my profit margin ain't too great anymore either.
So from my prespective I've got some really cheap grind resources I have to mine/buy in massive bulk quantities only to grind through my 8 factories and resell in deed form in bulk quantities at still a cheap price, and also buy up high end resources (20-100cpu) that are hard to find, but ends up turning a really nice profit for me.
walcyradiant wrote:Being an arch means one of two things; either you've got huge harvester farms pumping out millions in resources very cheap or you've got the bank account to go buyout most resource vendors that sell cheap grind resources, and buyout regularly.
Huh. I must be doing something wrong. I started with a bank account so large that moving the 2 personal harvs took more credits than I had in the bank most days, and having a macro harvest while I watched the boob tube was the best way to get material to build houses with.
Currently I have 1 medium house, 1 factory, 5 heavy harvs, and buy maybe 5% of my resources (ie when I run out of copper for generator turbines and need some cause I'm almost out of houses).
Income last week was a bit under 2 million credits.
Dazzydoodle wrote:
walcyradiant wrote:
Being an arch means one of two things; either you've got huge harvester farms pumping out millions in resources very cheap or you've got the bank account to go buyout most resource vendors that sell cheap grind resources, and buyout regularly.
Huh. I must be doing something wrong. I started with a bank account so large that moving the 2 personal harvs took more credits than I had in the bank most days, and having a macro harvest while I watched the boob tube was the best way to get material to build houses with.
I mistyped I guess. What I meant was dealing in huge volume to make the real high end money requires big operation or big bank account. Meant to impress that a starting arch shouldn't expect to bring in big money right off the bat. Took me around a year to get enough customers and resources going through to have steady business.
I guess what I should have said is to make money, in anything really, takes an investment of either time(hard work) or money. Money can make you money but so can putting in hard work. Also not saying the "little guy" (those w/o the big bank or big operation) can't make great money, they can too. They make it w/ more creativity and originality than I am is all.
Which is why I'd actually prefer doing arch the fun way and decorate and sell furniture. Having a "home" in a game of all places would actually be rather satisfying. First house I ever planted I wanted to decorate like a doctor's office (was a doc back then) and had all these ideas. Alas my artistic/creative skills aren't up to par w/ the great talent our home decorators around the galaxies have displayed, so I'll leave that to those that have earned that title. =)
Architect takes alot of time to start earning a steady amount of cash. It is not usually a solo profession, meaning you need some help from others or you need another profession to keep you above water when you start.
Message Edited by Talon001 on 08-15-2005 09:43 AM
on ahazi there are market for harvesters atm. in 2month i have sold around 500 harvesters. alot of factories, and havent been able to stock up other structures like housing 
but before cu there were alot of architect and i sold on harvestrr from time to time.. due to pricing on server. but now i keep the same prices as then, just arent many architects out there now(ahazi). and some folks come after i restock and do almost an comlete BO. lol and i aint cheap either. 120k heavys. ber13 120k hoopers.
Yeah architects make a ton of money 
.... if you know what ur doing... If u keep your vendors fully stocked and people know what and who you are you should be making millions in no time
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