Architect Archive

Yep, you nailed it... we're all lazy.

Damn, I wish I could find all the low grade ore I wanted for sale on Chimaera..

now he knows so we have to kill him.

I think that if the architect is lazy then yeah you have a lazy architect but I still survey other planets,, do I have to.. NO. .but I would like for once in a FREAKING blue moon find a 60% + of ore.. LOL.. that's why I look.. and for more GREAT STEEL

My sense is that each crafting profession has it's own challenges. My wife has a Master Tailor. In general she needs very little specific resources. She doesn't need a huge amount of resources. Experimentation is non-existant so she doesn't even look at resource quality. The only "technical" challenge is in using the BE tissues, and even that isn't all that complex (now that the tailors have figured it out). But ... to be successful she has to do lots of consulting and custom orders. She has to play around with the limited set of clothing items and limited and different color palettes to create a unique "look" for her customers. Some people would love the particular challenges of Master Tailor - and some would hate them. The *work* (since we're talking about "laziness") is related to the particular challenges.

Master Architect is different. As you say, there are a very few resources that I have to get "right", and other than that I don't have to worry about quality at all. So as a Master Architect I don't really have that much of a "technical" challenge like a weaponsmith in terms of really juggling different resources with slightly different qualities. However, I see the true challenge of a sustained Architect business (in SW:G ) as being all about *operations*. I think that to be successful as a general architect I have to choose ways to acquire resources (mining myself, lot swaps, static harvesters, paying miners) that are in balance with my business volume. I have to plan production runs of components and finished products. I know that other professions need factory runs also, but my sense is that the shear magnitude of the raw resources that Architects have to deal with make the production runs harder to plan. I have to manage my inventory of components to squeeze as much as I can, while predicting the needs of my customers. For example, if I make a run of Small System Storage Modules, I have to balance off the number of Heavy Mineral Harvesters that I make against the Heavy Chemical Harvesters.

So I guess I'm not sure that we are "lazy". I think that we have different set of things that occupy our time and energy. If those things are "easy" to you, then you've chosen the right profession. If they are really "hard", then maybe another profession would match what you would like better.

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Knocturnel68 wrote:

Man, going from doctor to architect is going to be...fun. I don't see architects paying 200cpu...thankfully =)

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That's because we are lucky to sell things at 8-10 cpu.

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Knocturnel68 wrote:

Man, going from doctor to architect is going to be...fun. I don't see architects paying 200cpu...thankfully =)

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Instead of buying10K at 200cpu, you'll be buying 1M at 2cpu, and hoping to sell at 4cpu. Don't expect resource management to get easier just because it costs less per unit.

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BoberFett wrote:

Instead of buying10K at 200cpu, you'll be buying 1M at 2cpu, and hoping to sell at 4cpu. Don't expect resource management to get easier just because it costs less per unit.

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Quite the opposite in fact, resource management, at least in terms of storage becomes a real pain with the larger quantities of resources needed on hand. This applies equally to the components. And then there is factory management... wait until you try to make a factory run of 50+ fusions and you will see what I mean. /shudders.

Message Edited by Bandola on 03-16-2004 12:09 AM