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I wrote a small program for calculating harvester costs.

Features:

- Calculate total costs
- Calculate cost per resource
- Optional power calculation

Upcoming Features:

- Squash bugs
- Better Icon
- Include other generators besides Wind
- Include other harvesters except personal extractors

You can grab it directly here: www*saygoodnight*com/SWGCalc.exe

Or check out future versions here: www*saygoodnight*com

-peej

Might want to have a hybrid section, where you can specify a % of resource for each harvester. For example, I have a vein of 80% steel 66% fiber ore may be down in the low 40s etc.

Lemme know if I can help. VB and C# here.

OA

Why not just put the same formulas in an excel spreadsheet?

Much simpler, and it can be tweaked if the numbers change, or someone has some unthought of situation.

Better if its all self contained in an app.

That doesn't mean that the values cant be user-suplied. The formula stays the same, but the data changes. Not hard to code really.

I'm working on a small app to keep track of my harvesters offline and slowly degredate over time to match (as close as possible) the status in game. More of a book-keeping operation than anything... so I don't have to run out to all of them and check status every day.

OA

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Orich wrote:

Better if its all self contained in an app.

That doesn't mean that the values cant be user-suplied. The formula stays the same, but the data changes. Not hard to code really.

I'm working on a small app to keep track of my harvesters offline and slowly degredate over time to match (as close as possible) the status in game. More of a book-keeping operation than anything... so I don't have to run out to all of them and check status every day.

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yeah I like it better in a self contained app, too. Other people have written online calculators too, but i dunno....apps just feel faster to me than a spreadsheet or the web. Maybe its just the coder in me!

Thats a GREAT idea about the offline tracker! You know that is essentially how harvesters work internally anyway. Holo said they are "unloaded" when you aren't around and run a simulation when you come back that uses power/maint based on the amount of time they were unloaded. So an app that runs a simulation continually makes alot of sense.

You could make it have alarms or something that would let you know when you had to go and put more maint/power in! Or have a web front-end where you could check from anywhere.

I don't really have the VB/C# skills, i am more of a C/C++ person myself.....but let me know if you need help.

-peej