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Isnt this going to be a waste of time, they are just going to roll back the changes. Why get all excited about this and make 10+ heavies when the code is going to be reverted? I dont get it.

He also stated that the changes were not going to hit live

Plus we like the change, and maybe they will pick up on that, we could always hope.

I am a master architect and I would only like the change if they grandfather existing harvestors. Otherwise it would not be fair. Eventually they would get flushed out. Look at pre nerf Pro Bots, and CH pets. If you are going to make a change of this magnitude you must grandfather existing harvestors.

Exactly right Zul

I am probably wrong, but I thought that experimentation will hit life servers. Only the low capacity numbers would not. If I understood it right, experimentation would go life but the base unexperimented values would be those before patch (and not those on TC) while experimentation will be able to increase those numbers

Youa re partially right Archimast. It was my understand that experimentation was going live, but that the extraction rates would not be experimental due to it being over-powered. I will go ahead and replace mine with some neweer experimented ones although it's possible some of mine are already pretty good since I always tried to use nice components even though it didn;t matter.

praolith

Crobsahm,

The last two posts are correct. Experimentation will stay. You have misinterpreted what 3PO said. "These figures will not go live" referred only to the grandfather figures. The experimentation was a deliberate change that the majority of architects have asked for in polls and will remain (for now)

Tinkerer, Master Architect, Wanderhome

Is there a message from the devs that says this? I would just like to read it so I can be happy that experimenting won't go away.

Where do they say this? I would like to read their post. I would be a very happy camper if the experimenting is going to stay.

grr I hate the forum software!

If we can experiment and have it do something why doesn't experimentation do anything for the sub-components? I just made a medium to see what happened and experimented everything to the best of my abilities. The only item that had any examination change was the final product and the experimented stat was storage but the extraction rate changes?? Haven't planted this harvester since my lots are all full up (what a shocker huh). Is extraction rate what it seems to be or is it just an unusual way to say the storage capacity?

It was a mistake because this "big" harvester change is not mention in patch notes, and the big question now is ...

They will revert or not?

Please DEVs hurry with the answer cos ppl need to know what to do, if we make new harvesters, if we sell cheap and fast the old ones with low storage and rate....argh what a mess u have made...at least if this changes will stay dont change the pre-patch harvesters cos i dont want to be next 2-4 weeks making heavys to replace my old ones and hurry with the decision cos resource shifts is coming soon.

I find it odd that Q-3PO acknowledged the hopper size issue (experiment carry-over from TC) in his Announcement Patch Issue thread, yet it is one of the only things he did NOT include a resolution date for ?? He also states that the testers can't find evidence of rates and power doubling - they say it is just the new display - this is opposite of what people who have tested it today are saying in these forums. If they can't repeat the problem, how will they ever fix it if it really is a problem and not just a display change ?