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Is architecture bugged to high heaven? Should I just drop it in favor of mining for a couple months? I'm having a hell of a time getting anywhere with it. Or perhaps I'm just doing things wrong?
 
It seems impossible for me to craft more than one variant on each log in. I can have the third additive literally taking up half the target image and it'll still say I didn't do it right. Other times the 'recipe' seems to change in such a way that none get close to it after my first variant craft. I have to relog if I want to make more than one.
 
And then there are the times when it says I have made the variant but what I get won't be the variant, it'll be the base (and I have to relog again because the game thinks I crafted one.)
 
Am I doing something wrong?	
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Architect is something you have to get a feel of, which you get by practicing. Oh, and thinking ahead and out of the box.
I might make a guide with tips and tricks someday because so many people seem to have trouble with it while I rarely even miss stuff anymore. Even in expert research stuff.
I'll try to answer your questions though
 
1)Is architecture bugged to high heaven? Should I just drop it in favor of mining for a couple months? I'm having a hell of a time getting anywhere with it. Or perhaps I'm just doing things wrong?
 
There are some bugs, but there are only very very few remaining. The only ones bothering me lately were the Osun forge schematic giving item data bad on itself and every variant (fixed now), and the Attack Ship in the expert warplot tree not being able to be crafted because it doesn't accept the correct blueprint. I haven't seen actual crafting bugs (materials, additives, etc) since the first patch after the release.
Whether you drop it in favor of mining is your choice. Architect is something you have to stick by, endure and learn. It pays off once you fully understand it (which most ppl say they do on these forums, but they don't, when you see what they post). Since you're new to it (i assume?) you might still be doing things wrong. I did aswell when I started architect.
 
2)It seems impossible for me to craft more than one variant on each log in. I can have the third additive literally taking up half the target image and it'll still say I didn't do it right. Other times the 'recipe' seems to change in such a way that none get close to it after my first variant craft. I have to relog if I want to make more than one.
 
This seems weird. That might be a bug you have to take up with CS. I can craft as many as I want whenever I want on any login.
How the additives work: your additive-circle works as a dartboard. where it actually lands can be ANYWHERE inside that circle. With bigger additive circles comes alot more rng and I've learned that it's best to end with a small additive that's 10% inside the target rather than a big additive that's 60-70% inside the target. Ending with small additives is ALWAYS preferable. Try to work towards that, look what your additives do before you actually choose them and find a path. (Though I do realize that in novice-artisan this isn't always possible due to the low amount of additives available)
What do you mean by 'recipe'? If you mean actual mats...that's a bug, contact CS. If you mean additives, well, there's RNG on them and it might sometimes get you really far away from the previous craft especially if you use the exact same additives. There's a way to manipulate RNG though but very very hard to explain and you'll start understanding it by playing with architect alot.
This 2nd question seems just RNG to me though, unless I'm misunderstanding you. In this case relogging helps nothing. But again, I'm not sure what you mean by this.
 
3)And then there are the times when it says I have made the variant but what I get won't be the variant, it'll be the base (and I have to relog again because the game thinks I crafted one.)
 
Haha, yea that's a bug I forgot to mention. On the other hand, it sometimes also works the other way around. Sometimes it says you didn't make the variant but you actually did when you open your inventory and check (or it adds to your crafting daily count). Again, relogging doesn't make any difference.
 
 
4)Am I doing something wrong?
 
You're not  per se doing anything wrong (it sounds like you're new to this, architect is very straining in the beginning). There are TONS of people having issues with the architect crafting skill and it's much much more than mindless clicking on additives that seem to go in the right direction.
It gets MUCH better once you hit expert. Sadly myself I only started realizing how architect REALLY worked after I hit architect and the hard(er) part was over.	
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