Architect Archive

There has been all the talk of the 7s, 8s, 9s and some say that tops are the 12s. I have only been able to make 8-10 on various batches of parts.

Can anyone be sure to say in which aspect of the materials makes the units more efficient or has higher extraction rates?

The ore mining unit on minerals id the major ingredient. IMO all components have a slight impact of the final result (maybe enough to hit that last extra point) but the harvesters that are hitting 12's are probably a master artisan with the skill mod tapes that add almost 25% to their stats. If you are making 10 kg/h then you are getting a good higher end harvester. Without skill tapes this is about the top you should expect for now.

Can you please tell me a little more about skill mods tapes? I have no idea that those might be or how they can be used toimprove my units.

The real issue comes to is whether or not the Devs are planning on putting a cap on harvesters after player cities espeically since we'll have 100 to experimentation unlike the 50 something we have now. Unless they want us producing large heavies with like 16 extraction or some extreme number like that.

Maller

The other real problem is the Devs are going to raise the maintenence requirments on the higher extraction harvesters also. For example: Medium at 9kg/hr is 160 cr / hr. With the 10 experimentation MA's have gotten this extraction rate on the TC.

Too much stuff like "skill mod tapes" and SWG will turn into EQ in space - only the uber guilds/players will be able to reach the "high end" portion of the game. Personally that's exactly why I quit EQ and fed my EQ game CD's to my dog.

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enkidu2132 wrote:
...fed my EQ game CD's to my dog.

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VERY good move my man!

I only have Installations IV and the Heavy Minerals I'm currently making have extraction rates of 9 (base is 7). My Heavy Chems, Gas, and Flora are 8 (base 7). My Fusions are 14 (base 12). I assume this is due to the steel I'm using and the fact that it hasUnit Toughnessand Decay Resistance in the 980's. My initial experimental efficiency value is usually around 25-27% and I don't use my 1 point of experimentation dueto the highfailure rate (Since I'm basicallya Novice Architect).

Using my old materials that I was not worried about quality I was able to make

Heavy Minerals that pulled at 9

Heavy Chem and Gas extractors that pulled at 10

And Ion Generators that pulled at 16

I also make medium extractors that pull at 7

I have not tired personals yet, it would be nice to have a few that pulled at 4

I am of course looking for better materials, but I am happy with my results so far.

I agree that if architect was limited to people will million-credit skill tapes then it would be bad for the game.

Give people advantages, sure, but if I sell 10s and uber-archtects sell 12s then I can forget being architect once people figure out how huge that difference is in the long run.