Architect Archive

I'm curious as to who would be interested in a PA with the above name. It would be a crafter(Architect and Engineer) one, with the only prereq would be Architect or Engineering or an Artisan with an interest to be one. I envision this being mainly a clearinghouse for information such as where certain ores can be located and pricing assistance. Does this sound like a good idea? Has it been suggested?

I think that it is a good idea, but how do you actually make it work. Right now I am a Master Architect and I essentially send jobs out to other architects (since I don't need the experience anymore). Since all I am really concentrating on right now are PA halls I supply the materials to anyone of the 3 architects that I am helping, they make me the wall modules and then I assemble the finished product. This works very well for me as I don't want to spend the time of crafting 150 structural modules. Though in this setting how would it work? Who gets what resources? How would I make money? I think the idea is good, but one of the reasons why I am so proud of my accomplishments is because I am not part of a PA and i have achieved Master Architect. Good luck to you and I hope you can get this thing to work

Potnik -- chilastra

Well, my original thought was that it would be more a clearinghouse for information. Ie, lets say you need some particular low grade ore(LGO A for sake of example) for a building you're making. However due to a resource shift you're harvester is sitting on top of a 92 conc of steel B. You have no idea where LGO A is, so you pop on the PA and put a message to your fellow brethen that you need LGO A, and have the coords of your steel B harvester(most areas I have seen are vastly underpopulated with harvesters, and with server capping people off, I dont' see how this can change.) You wait a bit of time, look back, and some guy or gal pops back with a message saying hey, here's my LGO harvester coords, and they either accept your steel B, or request some other resource(say chem A.) Now while you may not have any idea where chem A is, chances are someone will. And chances are someone will need steel B. That's the sort of thing I was thinking about. Also, you said you use novice architects, how do you find those? You can find them on the PA. Also, lets say you don't want to bother making a merchant, but you see someone has space on their vendor(I am now making assumptions on how they work on SWG, I havent messed with yet, I assume they work similiarly to the ones on UO.) That is the sort of thing I am thinking of.

Now yes there are certain problems and issues, and I'm making major assumptions about people's honesty, but I would hope that people wouldn't wnat to screw their fellow crafter, and even if they do, they'll be kicked out, and punished(Shunning, public mockery and outright assassination sounds cool to me.) Ie, if you screw the Brotherhood, you'll be the one screwed in the end.