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Watching my harvester, I thought that 1k would actually be 1k... but from what I can tell, every 60 units of a resource is 1kg of it? A harvester that is getting a yield of 1.6 kg/hr gives me 1 unit of the resource every 40-45 seconds, which after doing the math a bit, made 1kg = 60 units...

Is that right? If so, that's kind of... well... confusing. It would be nice if that was somehow made clear somewhere, instead of AFTER you realize that your 2kg/hr max harvester really can't do any better than 2 resource units per minute... that means if you pay a harvester 30 credits for an hour of operation, and another 30 or so for the maintenance of a power harvester for the power to run it for an hour, if you are on a 100% node with a personal harvester, you're basically paying half a credit per resource unit.. in reality, it will usually be closer to 1 per resource unit... not really bad, but a bit misleading from what I partially expected at first (1kg being equal to 1000 units )

Is this right, or is it a problem? I assume it is the right speed, seems feasible.

If you replace the 'H' in Kg/H with 'minute', you'll find it works out about right. It's completely inconsistently labelled - running time is listed in real time, harvesting speed in game time. Very messy and confusing to boot.

You are right I think. I set up a harvester last night with a rate of 1.69 Kg/hr. 8 hours later I had 808 minerals (101 per hour). 1.69 * 60 = 101.4. Pretty darn close.