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If you look at the deed it displays the hopper size and other info (power/main as well which is great). I notice that my 2 medium harvester deeds show a hopper size about 5000. I didn't worry about it since the devs has said that they were pulling back the change they did on test center where experimentation change hopper size.

But when I place one of the harvetser the hopper size IS what was displayed. Only 5000 something. Yuck!

I don't think the hopper size was changed on my placed harvesters. I am pretty sure the size was 50k (and 100k on a heavy) but not sure.

It might be that hopper size will change if I redeed so be careful

My medium mineral has a hopper size of 50000 (50k) You might want to look at yours and see if maybe you missed a zero? =) Even my personal harvesters have a hopper size of 25k

Are they deeds or placed harvesters? I had those harvesters as deeds before the patch. It looks like my placed harvesters are fine but I need to check again.

Read the official Announcement forum. Any changes to harvestors were not intentional and will be fixed after they are first investigated.

Those are placed harvesters, sorry =) They were created over a week ago and have been on the ground for the last week (the resource has GOT to shift soon,lol)

I am curious/concerned - Q-3PO discusses all of the known patch issues and their expected resolution dates in the Announcement forum under the Patch Issues thread. Change in hopper size is one of the few items that have been acknowledged by the testers, yet there is no resolution date. Does this mean it is intended? They also state that the testers found nothing to lead them to believe that the actual maintenance or power req. have doubled. The say that is solely a function of the new displays ? This contradicts everything that people that have been posting about these issues today. ????

The devs are aware that the power requirements have doubled. This is a bug, not intentional. The initial thoughts were that it was related to the display change, but this is apparently not the case.

Maintenence has not doubled. Hopper size is still being investigated.

Bianca Minola

They posted a resolution date of 10-11 for the hopper size that was not there when I posted. That's good.

I needed some gas harvesters last night so I made a few. The only experiment option was hopper size and it seemed to actually work. I made 3 personal harvesters with hopper size of over 41k using average resources.

Anavlis

I have several harvesters running both that were placed pre-patch and new ones placed after patch.

The harvesters placed before the patch have the same hopper size and efficiency as before (100k hopper 7kg efficiency on heavy harvesters).

The harvesters I placed POST patch had hopper sizes from 10k to 16k and efficiency ratings from 6kg/8kg. I havn't verified if they actually stop at the hopper capacity, but the efficiency rating is definately working as displayed.

same here with a personal chem ext. -- hopper size is pointlessly small -- 1367

I have a solar generator that had a capacity of 50k pre patch. It was placed prior to the patch. I just went and checked it and the hopper size is now 1785. Needless to say, it is now virtually useless. Mighty disappointing. Now I have to go buy ALOT of energy.

Hopper size has been fixed in the latest hot-fix. I had a pre-patch personal harvester deed and it now shows the correct hopper size and extraction rate (it was only 1 before). I bought a heavy harvester after patch and it has an increased hopper size (113k) and that remains. It also had 8 as extraction rate but that is unfortunately back to 7 again :-).

So experimentation on hopper size seems to have an effect. I am not sure if it useful to spend higher quality resources if you will get the old minimum size anyway (100k on a hvy will last a shift anyway).