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I am looking to put my housing lots to good use, so I could have an extra income.

My questions are

Do I need to have a house to be able to place extractors?
Where can I place extractors?
Is there a guide that can tell me what extractors, do what?
How much would I make($),I devoted all of my lots to exacting resources?
What is a good resource to extract?

Do I need to have a house to be able to place extractors?

No you do not need a house to place extractors

Where can I place extractors?

In all places that are buildable on, so far away from NPC cities, not near creature lairs and on the sides of mountains (Oh and in water)
Is there a guide that can tell me what extractors, do what?

Uhh, I will just tell you, there are three types of extractors, small medium and large. The medium would be your best bet to go with because larges are expensive. You need power and money to keep them going. Power is given by solar, wind and fusion power. These are also structures, You might want to invest in a fusion because they are worth it. Now extractors pull things out of the ground at max rate of: 2k for smalls, 4k for mediums, 7k for heavies. That is its max rate, it will pull that out if the resouces its on is at 100%, if its at 50% it will pull at 50% of the maximum.

(Fusions pull radiactive minerals out at 12k every day)

How much would I make($),I devoted all of my lots to exacting resources?

Lets say you put 9 medium harvestors on a 90% of okay steel, you should be able to turn each peice of that steel for 3 credits. So, you are pulling 3.6 k of steel every day, times that by 9 your at about 32k every day. If you can sell it for 3credits per peice of steel that would be a selling value of 96k credits.

What is a good resource to extract?

A good one that is used often, but i would actually get a good steel, good copper, good alum and then maybe some chemical or gas.

Now the initial price for me to make you all7 med. mineral, 1 fusion, 1 med. gas, 1 med chem would be expensive, like 400k im just guessing, This would be from me and i bet you could find better deals easily.

Lots of GOOD info THX!

I hear people are leasing there land to other players, is this true? If so, how is that done and is it profitable?

Factories take up lots like buildings, food and chem take up 1 as i beleive do equipment. Structure factores take up 2 lots.

Now a factory is meant to mass produce an item using a schematic, schematics are made when you are near a giant crafting station. One thign to make note of is only certain factorys will make use of certain schematics.

Equipment factories make general artisian tools and weaponsmith stuff, and droid stuff.

Food and chemical are medics and chefs (Possibly bio engineers, not 100% on that)

wearables factory is for clothes and armorsmiths

Structual factories are only for architects currently.

they cost power and maintence but not much, everything made by the factory has the potential to give you 1/10 of the exp IF YOU ARE NEAR IT. There are other rules that let you get exp but they are pretty much the same. Factorys make thigns slowly also.