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Thread: Have the maintenance and power increased
What is the power consumption and maintenance costs of a decent medium harvester?
Have they gone up, or does experimentation affect those too?
I thought ex only affected hooper size and extraction rate.
Please give some clarity because I created a few Mediums and they are consuming 100cr of power per hour.
I either have a wack harvester or something is going on.
I tested 5 med mineral harvies a couple days after the patch
Power usage was 50 per hour, and the display read 100 per hour. (I checked, and came back later and checked again)
Same with maintenance.
The Maintenance Rate is the same, however the Power Consumption is doubled.
Power used to display in Units per 1/2 hour...they chances it to units per Hour, but didn't change the formula so now they take out the displayed amount every 1/2 hour.
Experimentation will increase the Hopper Size...but the Extraction Rate is Fixed...and is supposed to be set back to the original volume...the system just bugged out w/ the new changes. In time if not already the extraction rates will go back to the original numbers.
Power consumption has NOT doubled. Only the DISPLAY has doubled.
I put just as much power in ones I have redeeded adn replanted post-patch as I did the ones pre-patch. NOTHING has changed other than the displayed amounts. So, before you had to...
Multiply the displayed maint. usage by 2 to get the hourly rate and the power was correct in the hourly rate.
Now you ...
Divide the displayed power usage by 2 to get the true hourly rate and the maint. is correct in the hourly rate.
In other words, you still have to adjust the calculations because the display is wrong in one for or another.
Power and maintenance are the same (though power display is bugged - whatever time it says you have left, double it for reality).
Some existing deeds of harvesters get get bugged during the patch. Some personal harvesters in inventory dropped in hopper size to around 1200 (aargh!) and the extraction rate dropped to 1 (double aargh!).
I seem to notice an increased power consumption rate. What I think the real issue is, is that the previous tic rate was not 30 minutes. I think it was 45 minutes. I've read various posts that indicated that might be the rate of maintenence/power.
So it used to be 75 pwr every 45 minutes on heavies, 50 on mediums.
Now it's 150 every hour, and 100 per hour on mediums you're causing a slight increase in consumption rate. If they let us keep experimented spec rates, though, that will work out just fine.