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You have to be farther away from town. I believe 1k m away.

Dont bother placing any harvesters though. Red Conn Aggressive monsters/npcs will spawn when you go to tend them. I went to my harvesters and wind generators today to tend them and spawns popped up 4 out of 5 times. The 5th time, the spawn was already there. There was a scout in a camp nearby. He probably triggered that last one.

So unless you like:

-wasting time running long distances to and from harvesters

-dying to the red conn aggressive spawns [not just 1 monster. they give you 6+ to make absolutely sure you got no chance. Kinda like using a nuke to kill a fly].

- paying exuberant harvester/extractor repair fees because they got damaged when you couldnt get to them in time to pay maintenance

- frustration

Unless you enjoy these things, dont place any.

I am not sure but am wondering if terrain comes into play as well. I was trying to put up a harvestor well beyond the 1km distance and got the same message. I moved around a bit to a leveler spot and then got the ok to go (the overhead map). As I moved my cursor around there was red (areas you can't put up) and green (areas you can). I'll also try the last suggestion of sitting next time a bit. Maybe its a bug.

Disregard the previous rant about not putting up harvestors. I run 2-3 of them and so far have not had any significant problems with red cons. Survey the area a bit before you put them in. I'll usually run around a bit and see the lay of the land. So far if I picked an area with quite a bit of yellow spawn in it (animals and such) I haven't run into too much red spawn superimposing itself on it. That's subjective on my part, but I have been running at least two harvestors for over a week.