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I hear they extract about 3 times as fast as a small harvester. True?

And that they require 2,500 credits a day to maintai. True?

Can someone tell me how many lots one of these guys takes?

Thanks

I hear it's pulls up twice as much and uses twice as much power and credits as well.

The only benifit is that you get twice as much harvester in one lot. However they are one heck of a lot more expensive to build then apersonal harvester.

It's about 1/3 the cost of a small house. That is a lot of resources to only save one lot. Also it's footprint looks tobe the size of 6 small harvesters.I built two of these things and have yet to use them. I am glad I have a lot of friends who do not use their lots so I can still throw up a field of sall harvesters.

I love my med harvesters , at first I thought I would hate them , but they save so much time and head ack its eazyer to keep track of 5 harvesters than it is 10, i cant wait till i hit large ones

They are double the speed as personal ones and I find they require only around 1200 a day to maintain So they aren't that bad when you consider they still only take up one lot of your 10 possible.

They are 1440 credits and 1200 power to maintain per day.

Sorry if this has been posted, but I tried using Advanced Search (it's no Google) and came up empty. My question is: Do you have to have a particular skill to place and use a medium or heavy harvester or can anyone use them?

Anybody can place one and operate it. You have to have survey skills from artisan if you want to know what's there before placing it. But you can usually count on the fact that there will be a high concentration of at least one type of mineral if you throw it down any old place.

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BoberFett wrote:
Anybody can place one and operate it. You have to have survey skills from artisan if you want to know what's there before placing it. But you can usually count on the fact that there will be a high concentration of at least one type of mineral if you throw it down any old place.

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Thanks, I do have Survey, I'm working towards Architect. I tried to place a medium last night but it wouldn't let me. There were no other haversters or buildings or lairs around, maybe it was just the terrain wasn't right.

must have been terrain.... if it showed red when trying to place.... unless you were to close to a city...then you would have gotten a message stating that "you cannot place here" or something like that