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I became an architect yesterday. I have build 5 houses. 3 of the 5 Ended with a critical failure. This is rediculous.

1st house 4-10 structure components Critical Failure. Final Build Critical Failure.

2nd 3-10 structure critical, and 1 light power critical. Final went OK.

3rd 2 structural failures Final build OK.

4th 3 structural failures. and Fail on Final

5th 1 structural, 1 Storage failure and fail on Final.

As a small time architect with only 9 harvesters I cannot keep sinking this much money, and resources into something that I can get no return on.

This really needs to be addressed as I believe it is the largest Thing affecting Architects.

Thank you./

Wow thats pretty harsh... you should think about taking some of the furniture skills, the assembly bonus helps, since getting furniture IV I've noticed a respectable reduction in failure rates. Unless/until failure rates are reduced this is your best defense (I'm not sure if I buy the claims that high end resources and experimented tools/crafting stations help, although its certainly possible).

May not be related but I always get less critical failures when I'm standing at the crafting station, I've still had 1 on a heavy installation, but in general with Furniture 4, maxed out tools and being near my station I've had a lot less. Just means an extra click if I'm making by hand instead of factory.

Yeah, you got unlucky with crit fails on those 5.

It happens though, and you'll need to learn to price high enough to handle those losses.

5 houses = 3.5k resourcse * 5 = 17.5k resources.

YOUR cost was probably around 10k credits for those resources. (Counting power & maint costs ONLY, not your time)

Selling those 2 houses at 15k each, you received 30k. Your overall profit is 20k. Now you could have sold those resources for over 50k, but hey, we won't go there.

As long as your time is "free", you'll be able to break even at the least.

I understand you're concerns, I've had enough crit fails myself. However, I believe theres been more than enough posts on crit fails and the concerns were already sent in week 1 or 2, I believe, by Zarcath to the devs so Im sure they know how we feel.