Architect Archive
Thread: New Structures
I am getting bored making the same old things. I was so excited going through the architect profession, untill I got Master. All I do now is make tons of money making the same old things. I am so busy making things for people that I have no time to explore other professions. I don't want to quit my profession, and I want to keep my good customers. So how can I have fun still? I know when player cities come along I will be able to build new things, but what if I want to be a loner? Then what? I want more structures ( or atleast a promise of them to come, in perhaps the space upgrade, or something of that nature). I want to be able to build everything you can see in the cities. I want to be able to add my own flavor to a house. I want to be able to make paintings, pick my own color of furnishings, oh yeah, I also want to make a multitude of a variety of furnishings.
I want to build a small house and sell it for 100k, because I spent an hour customizing itfor someone. I want to build my own floorplan. I don't want someone to tell me to go play The Sims either. I am paying good money for this game. I am puting forth a ton of my free time to this game, I want to delve in deeper. I want to be hired by a city mayor to build a wonderful city marker, or something that could set a city apart, build a statue of a city hero.
I think everyone gets my drift. I think it would be hard pressed to find someone to disagree with me. I am not whining, I am suggesting, and hoping. I don't expect these things, just throwing out some good ideas. I know it would be difficult to introduce these things into the game, but heck, I'd pay $45.00 a month if I could delve deeply into a proffesion like this. Thank You, and tell me some of your ideas, its fun to dream outloud.
These are the decisions many of us face. Your choices are obvious; step away from archtitecture (a hiatus) and explore another branch of skills, buy another account and start a new toon, or just keep making things and waiting. You sound like one of the more successfull architects, so I can understand that backing away a bit might stress you, but a temporary change just may do you a world of good. You have enough credits banked to really exploreother possibilites.
I made the decision that being a master was not the goal I had once wanted and am now exploring other possibilites, and that has breathed new life into my game playing. I enjoy making strucutres, butI do not waste time or resources with large houses or PA halls (even if I could make PA's). Good Luck with what ever you decide.
For what it is worth, I agree about the floorplan thing... as an architect I would LOVE to have the ability to at least modify some of the floorplans if not build my own. 
In addition to floor plans, I think it would be pretty cool for a design mode where we could create unique designs for other things like furniture as well (gotta admit, most of the existing stuff is somewhat ugly 
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That said, I am not holding my breath for that type of functionality. I would expect the Devs to fix things like experimentation, the fact that we have a useless skill branch (even if experimentation gets fixed, I'd still view Construction as useless the way it is), and the idea that we can only attain a +55 in our skills.