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I am a new Architect, i originally just took it for the holo grind, but now i have found that i like it and it is a good alternative to killing everything. My questionis, is there a guide or some form of reference to help me with what kind of materials work best for thing i may be crafting. Please let me know.

For most items that architects make the quality of materials doesn't matter at all. This is true for all buildings, factories, city structures and furniture.

Couple big exceptions are good harvesters and high rating crafting stations. From the FAQ:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=architect&message.id=40861

Q-5.5: How do I make a BER 13 heavy / BER 10 medium?

A-5.5: You have to use good materials for the main mining part and during the final combine. The materials for walls, storage modules or generator turbines do not matter. Ore mining units, Light ore mining units, Turbo fluidic drilling pump unit, fluidic drilling pump unit, Heavy harvesting mechanism, harvesting mechanism are the mining units. The materials should have high Heat resist, Shock resist and Unit toughness. The formula is HR + SR + UT + UT. That number should be as close to 4000 as possible. The mining unit should be highly experimented and in the 90's. The medium level units should say BER 4 on the schematic and the heavies should be BER 6. Whenever the schematics call for a chemical, you can use lube oil which does not have the stats and therefore counts as perfect.

Q-5.3: How do I make a good crafting station?

A-5.3: To make a crafting station with a high functional rating in the 40's you need to use all the optional components and everything has to be highly experimented with high quality materials. The crafting station itself should use 400 of very high conductivity metal (usually copper has high cond.) say around 990 or better. The other 50 can be an ore which does not have conductivity and therefore counts as perfect. All the optional parts use high overall quality and it should be as high as you can get. The droid storage components have to be made by a novice droid engineer. The control units and micro sensors are master artisan items. So either find a supplier or attain those skills yourself.

That's the same question I have on another thread:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=architect&message.id=43240

Check out the "FAQ" (someplace around here - we haven't gotten it stickied yet.) That should get you started. Then look for anything on the first couple of pages with "BER" in the title and read them.

Beat ya by a minute Zen!