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Why craft houses when you can buy them?
To be honest, yes you can just buy one at the Galleria however, you should also know that this is by far the most expensive option. If your character is a crafter then you will want to consider becoming an architect and building one. How you do this is found below.
What do you need?
You will need certain tools and materials to build a house or building or any sort really. You can see what you need by using the +items Architecture command. This will show you sections for houses, apartments, or starships. Each has subcategories that include the different kinds of items in that catagory that can be built. As an example let’s look at houses, so we would select +items Architecture/Houses and we would see:
- Large House
- Average House
- Modest House
- Large Subdivision
- Medium Subdivision
- Small Subdivision
You can then use the +consider command to see what each requires to build it and what you would get from it. As an example let’s look at a modest house, with the +consider Modest House command you would see:
A small two-bedroom house with a living room/kitchen, bathroom, and front yard. Designers, please use +desc to give this your own spin. May be redeemed for a five-room home on the grid.
This item belongs to the category of: Architecture/Houses
Crafting this item will take 50 Saga Points.
This item requires the following skill and specialty levels:
- Engineering 6
- Architecture 2
This item requires this equipment:
- PDA
- Building Construction Equipment
- Building Schematics
This item will consume these components:
- Warehouse of Timber
- Warehouse of Synthetic
- Warehouse of Steel
This item will have a weight of: 1 This item can also be used as: Basic House Template
Tools and how to get them
Each of the required materials can be looked at further with the +consider command to see how to make or find it or you can buy it from someone else. Sometimes you can find tools for sale in shops such as can be found on Comorro.
Apartments
Once you have built the complex you will need individual apartments to fill it. Multiple room apartments you would want to simply @mail or e-mail the design of the layout, the name of each room, and it's subsequent descriptions to the admins. For studio apartments you will +name the item with it's new name and then you will use the +desc command to describe each room for the building.
Custom Starships
For a starship you will need to build every room that will go in that ship up to the maximum for that hull type and describe it. The same is true for apartments. Once you have completed the item and all of the rooms you will need to do a +str to request that they be put on the grid and then, if approved, you will be told to spend some extra SP and actual IC money to simulate going into production. This is only for prototype starships, should you be building a standard one they you will only need to collect the materials, create the item, and then +str the request with the ship's name and stating where the item can be located.