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About 3 days ago, I placed a medium and a large chem harvester on a resource. The medium has a rate of 7 and the large has a rate of 10. They were placed at the same time next to each other on the same percentage of resource land. I checked to make sure that they never ran out of power or maintenance. Today, I went to check on the hopper for the first time. Lo and behold, the large chem changed its designated resource by itself to the newly spawned chem on the planet. I know this resource is new because I cannot sample it manually. And in the hopper, I had about 800 units of that new resource. This would be about right considering it was only a couple of hours after server up. So this is the first oddity.

The second thing that baffled me was the fact that when I checked both hoppers, the medium had about the same amount of units as the large harvester. Actually, if I added up the large harvester's units (the old resource and the one it switched to by itself), it's actually a bit less than what's in the medium's hopper. How can this be? I asked the architect who sold me the harvesters and he couldn't explain it either.

Any thoughts? Thank you.

well seems there are some things that SEO still hasn't worked the bugs out .

For instance , last week i was mining GAS to work in my generators , now I had no gas in my inventory at all , I went to the harv and there was 18k in the resource I needed . I was like w00t great get to make a boatload . I emptied the harv , then redeeded , since the resouce had shifted . Now mind you that was on a spot for 3 days , so that amount was accurate.

I ran back to my house went to make a schematic and BOOM I had 500 untis of some new GAS , It was still a known reactive gas , that just baffled me for a good 5 minutes , before I just chalked it up to a bug . BTW that gas I now had in my inventory was a resource that hadnt popped in 3- 4 weeks .

sucks when things like this happen

It's because you were looking at the types of resources available to harvest and you clicked 'ok'. That used to happen to me and I figured it out after it happened. Annoying but you just have to remember to click 'Cancel' instead of hitting ok or enter.

that auto-switching of resources when there was another of the same type available used to be operative back in beta, but I havent seen it ever in retail, and I manage like 40 harvesters. I miss it though!

As for the resource amounts, that does sound strange indeed.

{It's because you were looking at the types of resources available to harvest and you clicked 'ok'. That used to happen to me and I figured it out after it happened. Annoying but you just have to remember to click 'Cancel' instead of hitting ok or enter.}

Nope, sorry, I have to disagree. This was the first time I've been back since setting up the harvester and never even looked at the resource list since it was placed. Everything was fine until that morning when the harvester shifted the resource type by itself.

And even if I did what you suggested, when would I have done it? Can't be the day before because the resource type it switched to is new. Can't be that day when I went to check my hopper because there were about 800 units in there of the new resource already. It doesn't add up.