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Just wondering how many people scatter thier harvesters about at the best places for resource deposits and how many people just stick all of thier stuff together for convienience. I have tried both and since the resources change about once a week Im starting to think that i liked them all together and just taking the pot luck im given. moving harvestors gets expencive when you move them all. So why move them? I think im gonna just stick all mine together again and take what i get so checking them doesnt take 2 hours of running time.

comments?

no one have any thoughts?

It's probably more efficient to place harvesters on top of huge mineral deposits, but that's not the way I do it. I have 2 Wind Generators, 2 Mineral Extractors, and a Flora Farm, all right together. Every night I take 2 destroy missions in the general direction of the harvesters. I run out and do the missions, then go visit the harvesters. Dump all the power from the wind generator into the Mineral Extractors and the Flora Farm, and pay enough maintenance on all 5 for at least as long as I will be away from the game. I may not get as much of the best minerals available, but I get enough to support my needs. And I sell everything that comes from the flora farm at 3 credits per resource, which gives me enough Maintenance money to keep the whole operation going.

I was actually thinking of putting in another harvester. Maybe a gas processor, since we have Reactive Gas on Tatooine now. My power generators are getting enough to power at least one more.

Eifora Beffa / Novice Weaponsmith / Eclipse / Anchorhead

Personally, I have contacts on all the 5 main planets. They let me know when a really nice deposit of something shows up. That's when I pick up and move my entire livlihood to that planet, and strip-mine the crud out of the best deposits of said resourceI can find.

If there aren't any exceptional resources at the moment, I just maintain a large amount of power generators, so I can build up for when the time is ripe to reap.

IF I need to have generators AND miners, I always place each on the best deposits of what I can find. Even if I have to run cross-country to maintain them . . . or cross planet. I just make sure I take destroy missions every time I leave town.

One questoin for ya'll about harvestors:

Where can I find a breakdown of the maitenance costs of the different harvestors??

thanks in advance

swgcraft.com is a good site for this and has a tool for exactly this.

I think maintinance is 15,30,45 for the personal, med, large havesters per 30 min.