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Based onabout 21 hours of operation, I can confirm that my flora farms are using credits at the rates of 30cr/hr for the micro's and 60cr/hr for the automated.

The power used is 25u/hr for the micro's and 50u/hr for the automated, half of what they are now rated at (50u/hr and 100u/hr respectively).

For example, yesterday the automated farm had 14808 units of power, today it had 13756 units. That is 14808-13756=1052 units of power used. At 100u/hr that would be 10.5 hours. When I do the calculation using credits I get: 8910-7680=1230. At 60cr/hr that is 20.5 hours, which is about right considering there was probably some server down time (but not 10 hours?).

In all cases, the farms were put up post patch and already had a large amount of power from when I redeeded them pre-patch. So I'm going by the units of power shown in the status window of the harvesters. I have no idea what the PE of the power was that I put in as I never paid it any attention.

Btw, I'mvery surethat both the mainenance and power rates pre-patch were expressed in 1/2 hour units. I've kept notes and checked this many times. So a rate of 15cr/H pre-patch is equivalent to 30cr/H post-patch. "H" used to mean 1/2 hour, now it means 1 hour. Pre-patch I would calculate how much I need for 5 days maintenance @15cr/H like this: 5x48x15=3600. Now the calculation would be 5x24x30=3600.

I also suspect the time left display is bugged, sometimes correct and sometime not. But I'm not sure about it, could be a typo in my notes.If it is still bugged,itwould surelyadd to the confusion here. So I suggest using the credit and power numbers to confirm rates, as I did above,unless you verify the conversion to time left.

I hope this information helps.

-Arrgagesh, Survivalist on Kettemore.

So Gray Davis has hired ENRON to rewrite the Harvestor Code....

lol!!!!!!!!!!!

Harvestors and factoriys are NOT! eatin double power... here ill give u my stats

my factory says 100 units an hr

in RL its eating 50 an hr (yes im looking at the actual consumption)

the game is seeing 1 hr as = 2 hr so in short if u go away in RL for 2 hrs then 1hr passes on game

that equals 100 units in 2 hrs RL time, witch the game is only Seeing as 1hr, witch equals 100 units/hr like factory says but remember thats game time in reality it takes 2 hrs for that hr to pass

SO pre-patsh it was eating 50 units an hr and its doin the same now your just confused about thhe RL time vs game time.

Im sorry u have been doin harvesters since game started but ive been doin math my whole life, and spelling 10 minutes