Architect Archive

I'm not an Architect and have no intention of becoming one. However, I am very interested in knowing more about the advanced harvester types that Architects can make. How do the various advanced harvesters, the ones in the Installations line, compare to the basic Harvesters made by Artisans?

I am most interested in hard data regarding power burn per time unit, maintainance burn per time unit, and extraction effectiveness compared to the basic harvesters. Any data you can provide will be very much appriciated, and may lead to business for one of you on Intrepid.

From what I know:

Basic Harvester:

Takes 1 lot

Costs 720 credits to maintenance a day

Takes 600 power to run for a day

From what I've heard:

Mediumand Large Harvesters:

Still only take 1 lot

Mediums are 2x each of the previous costs

Larges are 4x each of the previous costs

They mine 2x and 4x the ammount of goods as the previous mines.

Basically, this means that there is no cost benefit to running large harvesters, except that you can place a lot more and mine up to 4x your previous amount. This will be nice, since the larger the house you have, the fewer lots you have to devote to harvesters.

What I want to know is how much maintenance fees must you have in the medium harvestors to re-deed them. With resources shifting, this could be a substantial cost.

With the personal harvestors, i never re-deed. Its just too expensive. As an artisan i just make more. It only takes about 250 resources to make a mineral harvestor, yet it costs 1500 to re-deed. When resources shift, i destroy and make new ones.

My concern is that this is completely unpractical with the medium and large harvestors. at a cost of over 15,000 resources to make a medium harvestor, no one will be destroying these.

So does anyone know what the charge is to re-deed medium and large harvestors?

3000 credits maint.

Rogue42, actually the costs for large harvesters are only 3x the basic personal harvester costs (power and maintenance). This, along with the 3.5x performance, make large harvesters the only harvester to be more efficient than the others.

There *is* a definite difference in cost for large harvesters It just takes so much to actually make one that it's often a long while before someone moves from medium's to larges.