Architect Archive

I belive it is due to everyone racing to get thier skill levels up.

Most architects make extra things they don't need just to advance thier skills.(I made a few houses then thought about it and madea LOT of wall modules which I can use later).

They sell this stuff at little profit or even at a loss (aka the5 to 9k small naboo house). People just want / need some quick cash to pay harvester bills, so they can race up a couple of more skill levels.

PA-sponsered architects can be evenworse since thier PA is funding thier advancement, with tons of materials. They will sometimes make a large numbers of small naboo houses (or other items) and sell them for pocket change.

Thus the housing / structuremarket is bad at the momnet.

Prices should stabilize once the post-release flood of new architects' skills start to top off.

I predicta month form now the market will improve. Why sell 3k worth of assembled resources for 9k when you could sell them by themselves for > 15K? (5cr per 1 resource).

DI sold one house for 15k then another for 7k plus 90% of the materials required to make it. No way am I selling small houses for 9k.

I totally agree. I just stock any deeds I make until someone meets my price. Mainly for housing I trade for resources - 3500 of whatever they have for a small etc. This helps me advance skill and elimintaes the horrible housing/credit ratio. Its funny tho that I can barely sell a house at my set 5cr/unit pricing but people have no problem eating up furniture priced at 10cr/unit and higher faster than I can put it on the Bazaar. Now I am not hurting for cash at all but I really don't see how an independant Architect can keep themselves in the black and advance skill while handling all the overhead of harvesters.

You could always sell house at break even, and use it as a point to sell them furniture at a profit.

That makes sence, sell the more valuable item at cost and then make much lesser profit on the furniture.....great idea, I'll remember not to do that in the future.

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Tsang wrote:

PA-sponsered architects can be evenworse since thier PA is funding thier advancement, with tons of materials. They will sometimes make a large numbers of small naboo houses (or other items) and sell them for pocket change.

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I've stated this before: This is (or should be) a misnomer. As part of a PA I am too busy making structures for our PA. I barely have time to EVER sell houses to the public. Why should any PA architect bother? They don't (or shouldn't) need the money. The don't need the UXP because they are making structures for their PA members.

If a PA Architect IS doing those things then he is not REALLY a PA architect. What I mean by that is he is an independant architect who is part of a group of people. If he is selling low then he is doing it for a reason. Those reasons result from his PA members not helping him out enough.

I personally think it is the INDEPENDANT architects that are selling small houses that low. As a PA architect I have no need to even sell ANYTHING to the public. When I do it's because I want to for a change of pace.

Also, whenever business walks away because they feel I am asking too much. It's no sweat off my back because it's less for me to worry about.

Im not in a PA, because we don;t have a hall yet. However I have 12+ friends now on the server (mostly from EQ) and we have made some very good new friends so that PA idea will work some day. Having said that, I would love to help my friends more often but we spend all our production on upgrades, moved and sales. If we dont sell something every day we can feed the **edit** harvesters. So not every non PA seller is tanking the market.

I belive its the guys who never read these boards that are doing it.

For the record I will buy every freaking last 10k small house being sold on my planet from you silly broke starving clueless types. I will then sell them to customers for 20k at a slower pace than you can sell your 10k's. In the end everyone is happy. What ya think?

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