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Thread: Static Harvester Farms
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f0rmula
Sun Mar 14, 2004 11:01 am
#1
In short, I'm lazy..
Does everybody pick up their harvesters and move them every time theres a resource shift? If i have a few heavies i can see this being an absolute nightmare..
Is it feasible to leave my harvesters where they are, and just hope for good resource concentrations underneath them? as i think even with low concentrations i should turn over a basic profit..
I'm planning on using mineral harvesters, for metals and ore, so nothing particularly rare.. i reckon my chances of keeping afloat and staying in business should be pretty good as theres loads of recources i can chose from with the harvester, you usually get one resasonable concetration value..
any thoughts? does anyone do this already?
james
ps would this have been better posted in the architects forum?
Does everybody pick up their harvesters and move them every time theres a resource shift? If i have a few heavies i can see this being an absolute nightmare..
Is it feasible to leave my harvesters where they are, and just hope for good resource concentrations underneath them? as i think even with low concentrations i should turn over a basic profit..
I'm planning on using mineral harvesters, for metals and ore, so nothing particularly rare.. i reckon my chances of keeping afloat and staying in business should be pretty good as theres loads of recources i can chose from with the harvester, you usually get one resasonable concetration value..
any thoughts? does anyone do this already?
james
ps would this have been better posted in the architects forum?
Asteroids
Sun Mar 14, 2004 11:12 am
#2
I think it depends on your aims. I mean, why you are harvesting, i.e. to make credits, to mine resources you use for crafting, etc..
Personally, when the resource shifts. I move them to another resource I think will sell well. Since I mine for credits mostly. I also contract mine so moving them is required to fill orders.
However there are lots of people who do cross server lot trades and runs lots and lots of static harvesters. I'm sure there is still margin to be made this way as they wouldn't do it otherwise I guess (any static lot miners want to comment?).
I think you would still make money, I did the math once as I was considering static lots too and even if you consider worse case scenario, low concentration and low resale value (I factored in grind quality sales at like 1 cpu worst case) you'd still make more than it would cost to maintain the operation. No doubt you could make more if you moved them around, so if you can live with lower profits at the cost of saving time and effort, maybe it will work for you.
f0rmula
Sun Mar 14, 2004 11:32 am
#3
Asteroids wrote:saving time and effort
Thats the important bit
if its possible, that'll be what i do..james
owako
Sun Mar 14, 2004 7:27 pm
#4
I move mine every time. Being an armorsmith I need specific resources, I can't remember a time when what I wanted to harvest next was in a good concentration right where my harvestors where. Also if it is something very good I want as much as possible, so i go for highest concentration. If you are just going for grinding/selling resources it dosen't really matter as much. There has been a mineral harvestor near my house for about a month now, don't know if its doing anything with the broken animations, but its been there for a while.
Tonster
Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:55 am
#5
I always move mine to place them by the best resources at the time. High quality resources are more than worth the effort of moving the equipment.
I've also had a problem in the past where, when the resource a harvester was collecting shifts, that resource is then lost from the hopper. That was in the first ahrvester I ever had, so I quickly got into the habit of monitoring and emptying them every 2-3 days. I also tend to put them on no more than 2 different resource areas at once to save running around too much.
Guruweaver
Mon Mar 15, 2004 7:50 am
#6
I leave mine where they are all the time. I have too much going on to keep moving them, plus it is a big money sink.
Every resource comes to my field eventually. Just have to take the long view.
Take care
Every resource comes to my field eventually. Just have to take the long view.
Take care
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