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Thread: How easy is it to recoup costs for a factory?
So I've had a factory deed for some time now, and I'm a master chemist. But I've been afraid to place it because I don't play every day, and I'm worried about the maintenance.
My questions are:
1. What's the best thing to mass produce and sell with the goal of keeping your factory maintained. (i.e. just recouping the maintenance costs or greater)? What sells best?
2. Given that everyone is reporting bugs with factories, I'm worried that I'll be stuck maintaing a non-working factory, which would be terrible. Should I place it?
As long as I can play a few nights a week and keep it maintained with sales, that's enough assurance for me. 
Any suggestions from factory-veterans would be greatly appreciated.
GPF.
factories work just fine u just have to hand load them...these work arounds are for getting them to pull crates...
personally i findthe workarounds many times are more of a pain then just loading the factroy by hand but thats my opinion...
maintaining a factory is relatively cheap and if u dont run it, u dont need to add anymore power since power only drains when running the factory..
so as long as u log on every few days and drop 1-2k in the factory, its not a bigdeal to pay for one...
stim Bs are usually the best sellers...
What's it cost to pick it back up?
To pick it back up supposedly it is 100 times the maintainence cost IE a small house is 8 so 8x100 = 800 Or personal harvestors are 15 so 1500. That is what I have been told and read but not personally witnessed as I haven't had to redeed anything myself yet.
Don't forget to take out your power(or use it not sure ya can take itout I forget)and empty the hoppers for sure =)