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I just worked my way up to Novice Architect and have run into a problem.

All of the building schematics require "similar" components like Structure Modules and Walls. I take it that I am supposed to use an Equipment Factory to produce them, but in order to make an Equipment Factory, I need the afore mentioned items...

I tried to create thestructure modulesseparately, but when I pull up my schematic to make the walls, it does not "see" the structure mods I made.

Is there a way around this? I'm hoping that I'm just blind and am missing something, but would someone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks.

Similar components is a funny term.

All it means is that the end product has to look the same, it does not mean they have to be made with the same resources.

You can make one wall with steel and Carbonate and another with aluminum and Silicate ore and they are still similar components.

But, I made a bunch of Structure Modules (that are needed to make the walls), but when I opened the Wall Schematic, it did not recognise the structure mods as valid components.

I even triedturning off the "filter" option on the resource window, but when I clicked on the structure mods there, it just gave me a "That item is not valid for this schematic" error.

I have not seen anything like that.......

My structure modues show up every single time, no matter what componenes I make them with.

Nevermind...

I jumped back in the game to see if I was missing something. It looks like my client was messed up. As soon as I logged back in, it recognized the components correctly and allowed me to use them in the wall schematic.

Thanks for the help.

Yeah, I often play right after a re-boot and I have to log out and back in to see my harvesters and house, and sometime they waypoint bug gets me too.

But keep in mind that similar is really loose, you can make 10 structure modules out of totally different resources and it works fine, the only time you need to use a factory is with identical items.

To be honest I have no idea why the have the word similar in there, it doesn’t mean a thing.

I actually think it is a hold over, it was probably originally meant that it had to be hand made items of the same resources but they changed their minds.