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Wasn't sure where the best place would be to ask this question, so I'm posting it here and in the general discussion forum. Anyway, my issue concerns harvesters and wind generators:

Once a day, I put 1500 credits worth of maintenance into each wind generator and 1000 credits into my harvesters. According to the status page of each harvester, this should keep my machines running for more than 24 hours. This often is the case, but more commonly it proves incorrect. I'll return to my harvesters less than 24 hours later and find that I owe anywhere from a few hundred credits to nearly 2000 credits in repairs for some of my machines. This isn't something I can easily predict, as some days the harvesters use the maintenance at the correct rate, and other days they seem to absorb it like a sponge.

Could anyone please tell me what causes this? All of my machines were made by a friend who experimented with them upon construction and turned out some very efficient harvesters. I could understand a little better if the rate at which they burned through maintenance funds was consistent, but it is not... I never know how efficient my supposedly high quality machines will run.

Thanks in advance for any info you can provide.

- Lazzeryth Pa'oza

Smuggler, Ketemoor server

I thought I had a couple harvesters that I was sure were on a higher burn rate but last night I checked and their burn was identical to my other solars. Perhaps it is random??