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I am still a fairly new artisan and have been thinking of starting to use harvesters but am hesitant.... I have read that you can use radio active resources to use for power. Is this true, and if so how many resources are needed per day (in RL) to supply a harvester? Does the quality of the resource matter like Potential Energy (i think it's called that, at work now so can't check)?

Thanks much....

Dandi St'Min Tantooine:Mos Espa:Valcyn

You can use any radioactives, and power from solar or wind power harvesters.

Not sure of the daily cost... Potential energy doesn't matter, or isn't implemented yet.

I was hesitant at first too - the way I look at it is that I made them. They don't take much resources. Even if I walk away from them for a week and they all burn to the ground, I'm not really all that bad off. Worst case scenario, I build a new one, or run a pair of missions and buy a new deed.

I really wanted to have the numbers.... I am thinking about setting up my first harvester on a radioactive site and see if I can power more harvesters and save some cash in maintenance fees (Miners are cheaper than power to maintain right?)

Actually, you can sample energy for installations. It is called Radioactive Energy which is what this post is all about. Ok, I told a few of my guild members that they can use Radioactive Energy and it is much easier then having a wind generator, but they had problems. It seems they were using level 3 radioactive energy which apparently doesn't work. I was using level 5. So, try to get a higher level then 3.

Oh, and jeff. I know you were talking about wind energy and no you can't. I dont know of anyone that has a fusion generator so I can't tell you waht you get from it. Probably is radioactive energy though.

Thanks Onslaught141 I do not know what kind I currently am sampling will have to check when I get home, hope it is higher than 3 cause I would have wasted hours on that spot collecting it (its not fun watching sampling).

Do you know if level 4 will work?

I have been harvesting radioactive 5 and 2 now for several days. Both the 5 and the 2 ran my mineral harvester fine.

Which power type, radioactive or wind, can be produced for the least cost. Wind requires no power to operate but the maintenance is 1500 vs 720 a day. The radioactive can typically be found in much higher deposit strenghs (90%+) but requires 600 power a day to operate. I think the wind havester also cost more to salvage deed. What sort of typical production are wind generators making per day?

Do you get radioactive power from a fusion power generator? I don't think you can sample engery for installations, correct? You have to have a building collect the engery?

You need a pretty good architect to make a fusion power generator.