Architect Archive
Thread: I had a though about factories
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jadeew
Fri Aug 05, 2005 7:57 am
#1
I don't come to this board very often, but I was hoping to get thoughts on what could be a new Architect product. Here is the idea.
How about a Manufacturing Plant?
Here is how I was thinking it would work....
- You buy this of course from your local Architect. It has the footprint similar to a PA Hall or mabey bigger. It would be available in small, medium, and large. Small = 3 lots - Medium = 6 lots - Large = 10 Lots
- Once the structure is placed, you could then place a variety of factories (also bought from your local Architect) into the plant. Small= 3 factories - Medium = 6 factories - Large = 10 factories.
- It would be a structure that you would be able to enter. All of the facroties placed in the structure would be accessable from inside the structure. This would do away with having to worry about agro at the factories killing the level 1 crafter.
- There would also be a structure access pad in the Plant that you can pay maintenanec and power to one time. This would be used in a community fasion by all the factories placed in the plant. Mabey even add a bit of maintenanec on top of factory maintenance for the Plant maintenance as well.
- Mabey even have some storage in this structure as well so you can keep things used in the factories close by or storee some of those extra subcomponents that wouldnt quite fit into the input hopper so you can easily add them later when part of the subs have been used up in the factory run.
Dont know if this is at all possible, but would be very cool to have. It would even give a boost to the architect community (even if only temporary) financially. I would imagine that it takes at least as many resourecs as a PA hall if not more to make a large. Cost would be somewhere between 500k and a million credits depending on resources needed plus the factories would have to be bought separately.
Orzosco
Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:19 am
#3
It really is a great idea. I doubt it would ever come to fruition, based on how much the devs seem to ignore crafters. But a one-stop place to put all of your factories would be a god send, especially if there was the ability, as you mentioned, to add maint and power to one place and have each component factory draw from the common pool. Great idea...wish it would come to pass.
Roosevelt
Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:42 am
#4
Nice Thought!
It would have to also give you resedancy in the town (if it's in a town that is) or the largest would need to drop to 8-9 lots so you could still drop a normal house if needed. I like it alot!
golfingtx
Fri Aug 05, 2005 9:29 am
#5
I like this idea a whole lot.....would clean up the area around the major cities....nohing but factories all over the place.
bunk72
Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:43 am
#7
Fantastic idea!! Five stars for you....oh, wait.
Anyway, I love the idea of not having to quickly close my factory interface and speed away to avoid getting incapped by the level 3 Crazed Durni that has a lair right next to the factory that I need to get walls out of. And the resource storage is the icing on the cake. Well done!
Sharenna
Fri Aug 05, 2005 4:52 pm
#8
Agreed I think this would be a great idea, just a shame the dev's won't pick up on it. Like has been said it would help to clean up the area around the player cities, also I think 8 lot maximum would be best so people can still place houses.
Stownhart
Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:52 am
#9
Good idea. KInda similar to putting all the crafting stations into a droid. And that has been in game for a long time
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