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Hi about a month ago I have bought 1 heavy harvesters for each resource, plus food chem factory, and a fusion ion thingy.

After coming back from a 1 month trip my friend tells me that the old stuff are pretty worthless because newer structure can be experimented for lower maintenance, and higher extraction rate.

I dont know how this works because Im not an architect, but I would appreciate if somemone (architecth) could tell me some info about this.

Can heavy harvesters have a higher base 7 extraction rate? and lower maintenace and power fees? Currently my my heavies use around 90c per hour and about the same (I think) for power.

Its the same maintenace/power rate for my food chem factory.

Also, can houses maintenance fee be lower than the default rate, when experimented?

I kind feel sad that I did a large purchase from one architech and bought all these harvesters/factory at once, and I didn't even get to use them (due to an one month trip) and now its considered "worthless" a month after. I a casual gamer, that was a heavy investment, an I wont be able to replace all these harvesters/factory/house with new ones.

Any info on this would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

The only way to make maintenence cheaper is to get efficiency IV on the Merchant tree.

So the the maintenace is tied to a merchant skill and NOT to the final product?
So if I raise my mrechant skill to efficiency IV all my harvester/factory/house will have lower maintenance? Doesnt mattter what the architech does when creating the deeds right?

Thank you for the info!

Still got questions on the extraction rates though.

the maitenence will go 20% lower.

Basically it IS lower maintenace., so your friend wasnt that far off. You are paying the SAME power/maitenance as you did before but the new harvesters are extract 10 not 7 so you get nearly 50% more materials for your power/maitenance

Same mediums are a whopping 75% 'cheaper' as they used to be extract 4 and now you can get extract 7 which means for the SAME power and maitenance you get 175% of the materials u got before.

The actual maintenance on the harvester didnt go down, but the amount it can pull in went up which means the stuff is cheaper.

Thank you for the info
I guess I will have to get my harvester replaced
Is there any immediate change to harvester again in the near future?