Architect Archive

ive been reading some posts and from personal ingame observations and me being a novice architect i noticed the following.

1) once your a novice architect you just want boat loads of ore & steel to grind stiff to get xp into architect so your hoping to pay2-3 credits p/u of ore / steel fibroplast whatever, architects dont need quality even at high levels caus it doesnt help the product much other than crafting statsion and maybe factoryies.

But miners want to sell there good quality ore at 5 credits p/u concidering even after we make a building we calucate a sell price at 3-4 credits per unit to stay competitive.

2) im only 2 boxes into architect and it bleeds me dry every day caus im buying ore caus i cant mine enough 8 lots + a house on 2 lots means i cant get enough harvesters to get enough ore to practice my skills on.

i would rather just delet my architect skills and go full merchant and start a RESOURCES store and make cash like other people are caus I am not making any cash as it is and i can make medium harvesters and factories and i have em on my vendor and i spam my location every now and agsin as i pass through the cities and i may get 1 customer a day buying some $500 peices of furniture.

when you concider the costs of keping those items on my vendor and not selling em its not worth it, I would really love to hold out to the whole build cities patch comes out but we cannot get enough ore to make stuff on an ongoing process unlike gunsmiths and such.

The way i am currently paying for my architect grinding is grinding FP missions buying ATST's and selling em for 500-700k depeing on bidders at the time, I have sold 2 in last 3 days so thats kept me going but i have to grind FP missions for about 15 hours a day to get the fp needed.

I do at least have a name for myslef now and I have backed up orders to fill for FP stuff 5 atst,1 HQ, armour, furniture, ST pets will take me 2-3 weeks to fill all the orders.

I didnt actualy start this profession to make cash I seem to do 100 times better selling FP items but i didnt think it would be as bad as this, i might back track and start gunsmith , no idea now, very disheartening.

Ironicly i cannot become a master merchant unless i have items to sell on my vendor and if i stop being a architect selling furniture etc i cant get the xp, hopefully being a low lvl miner with 8 lots going will be enough .

Compromise.

If you sell the ouput from one harvestor you usually will get enough to pay for the other 7, maybe 6.