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If I turn my harvester/wind power generator "OFF" do I continue to have to pay maintenance? and how long can I leave it in the "OFF"position?

As far as I can tell it doesn't make a difference if it's on or off. You pay the same.

how does paying of maintenance work? Could I put a few thousand credits into a harvester when it is first created and then leave it for some time, or do I have to pay maintenance as it demends it?

I really don't want to waste money while using it.

You can do either or.

When I first started out, I just gave the harvesters money as they needed it (i.e. small mineral harvester = ~750 per day), but now that I'm selling alot of resources, I just toss a couple thousand into each every few days.

Your harvester demands money daily, if you put a large lump sum into it, it will keep pulling money from the Maintenance Pool until it's funds dry up. But if your constantly low on cash, just stop by daily and toss some moeny in.

Just remember to keep the payments up to date, as it costs alot more to fix a broken harvester then it does to make your payments. I had a buddy who need 10k worth of repairs done on his harvester because he didnt keep the maint current.

As was mentioned you can pay for as long as you want. One thing to be careful of. Resources change about once a week-week and a half (when the system works as designed). If i've put a harvester on a resource that I know appeared in the last 24-48 hours I'll throw 3-4 days worth in, but after that I hesitate to keep more than 24-48 hours worth. The resource could dry up at anytime and you may have a harvester on a spot with nothing to harvest.

Can anyone say with certainty what the maintenance costs on mineral and wind harvesters are?

Personal Mineral Extractors: 720 credits/24 hours, 600 power/24 hours.

Wind Generators I don't recall offhand, but they don't use power and the maintenance is significantly higher.

Wind generators are 1440cr / day no power requirement.

I don't know about larger instalations as I only have personal ones

Small mineral harvester is 720cr 600 power/day, medium is double that (1440/1200), haven't built a large so I don't know rates on those. All the generators cost the same, approx 1500cr/day.

Heavy harvesters are 2160 credits a day and 1800 power a day.

hey ,whats the deal with the harvester maintenance?i've only had them set up for a few days and my wind generator is all broke down and requires like 9000 of maintenance.I could just go buy a new deed for less than that.what am I missing here?. Thanks,Tim

lol they take like 2k to run EVERY DAY

Actually, it's 1.5k credits per day . . . but who's counting.

Miners are 720 credits per day plus 600 power, by the way.

And yes, once a harvester runs out of maintenance . . . it degrades REALLY fast . . . so if you don't have levels of engineer . . . don't let those puppies run dry!