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I placed a harvester, supplied it with power, etc. and it's running. My question is about yield from the wind generator and the harvester (mineral). The wind says that it's current rate is about 1.5 Ksomething per hour, and the mineral extractor says it's current rate is about 1.488 KG/H. Is KG supposed to be a single unit? If so, I'm not getting anywhere near the current rate of resources from it. Am I doing something wrong? Does the amount of power the unit has effect it's extraction rate? Also, when I dump power in, I see a ratio after the units of power like (0:3). This seems to be related to the burn rate and how much power is in the unit but what exactly does the ratio mean??

Any help here would be GREATLY appreciated. After having lost a couple of harvesters, having spent tons of cash on trying to get them running/returning them to deeds I'm pretty frustrated and this was my final attempt at getting these running before saying "screw it".

Thanks

I was just about to ask the same thing.

Rick,

I'll try to help, but dont take anything I say as the gospel. These beginner harvesters and genrator operate at a maximum of 5kg..I believe thats how much they extract, and if yours are operating at 1.5 that means your only harvesting a little at a time. This probably is because what your harvesting is not in great supply. When you go into "change resource" you'll see numbers on the right side of everything you can possibly harvest. That number is just like a survey %....so if your harevesting say copper, and the number to the right is only 20, your sitting on a 20% field. Thats not good....you want to survey before you slap down a harvester. Test your harvester out..go out and change the resource harvested to something higher, and see it the right side KG/H goes up. I think I am right and it will the higher the field is your on.

As for the burn rate on power...I have yet to figure that out, I just keep dumping it in to make sure And I dont know if the amount of power has anything to do with how much you harvest, but I do believe they said the condition of the harvester itself will...so keep em maintained. I put 5000 cr into a new harvester and it say that'll last almost 7 days.

Hope

From my experience with harvesters, I think 1KG/H = Somewhere around 100 units an hour.

1kg per hour = 100 units... Max production would then be 200 units per hour (at 100% effeciency) So thats a max of 4800 units per day.

Power Consumption = 25 means it takes 25 units per hour, so thats 600 per day.

Harvester cost is 30 per hour for harvesters, 60 for wind generators.... 720 and 1440c per day.

Thats why im harvesting Radioactive and using it for power in my Steel Harvesters. Wind Generators look cool, but they cost too much.

Wow cool. Thank you very much for the help guys, I really appreciate it.