Architect Archive

I have been an architect for several months, and was a Master Doc before that. Crafting can be a pain, so here's a good yardstick to measure your materials.

The formula is HSU2, for

Heat Resistance + Shock Resistance + (Unit Toughness x 2)

(or if you don't like multiplication, HR + SR + UT + UT)

The maximum possible result is 4000, the closer to 4000 theproduct of this formula is for a given material, the better the results will be for quality and experimentation. It may seem counter-intuitive, but Overall Quality has nothing to do with Architect crafting.

So, if you're judging materials for harvest or purchase, add up the HSU2 and that will give you a feel for what's better.

Another tip: some subcomponents are not experimentable. I can think of Generator Turbines, Small Structure Storage Modules, Storage Modulesand Structure Modules off the top of my head. If a product is not experimentable, it is by definition an all-or-nothing affair. These subcomponents are good places to dump low HSU2 materials, if you can get them to work then make a schematic and start up the factory.