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"Dave King" <dking21@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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> I am fairly new to the business of surveying/harvesting
> resources (always been a combat skills character). I have
> six harvesters going right now collecting minerals, all are
> medium-sized harvesters with BER 10.
>
> My question is how much difference is there between the
> medium harvesters and the heavy mineral harvesters? I
> have seen some that have BER 13 for sale at vendors.
>
> I know that the heavy harvesters will collect more, of course,
> but they are selling for 150K as opposed to the mediums
> at about 40K each. Is there that much difference?
The difference in price is due to the resources required, which are out
of whack compared to the cost (resource wise)/benefit of mediums. Below
are the required resources (sorry in advance about any poor formatting):
Medium Heavy
750 Low Grade Ore 15,400 Low Grade Ore
720 Metal 7,480 Metal
517 Steel 1,540 Steel
500 Aluminum 1,000 Aluminum
250 Chemical 500 Chemical
250 Copper 500 Copper
200 Reactive Gas 400 Reactive Gase
150 Non-Ferrous Metal 300 Non-Ferrous Metal
20 Inert Gas 150 Inert Gas
Those totals include all the resources for the components also, for
instance the Mediums only require one generator turbine, while the Heavy
requires two, so they need to be made in a factory (more
power/maintenance). You go from one small storage module in the Medium
to six in the Heavy. So I feel the price adjustment is definately
justified.
Whether or not they are worth the price increase is a different subject.
It basically depends on your needs and the quality of the resource you
are collecting. To determine this you need to know how the harvesting
works. The units per minute is determined by the BER (Base Extraction
Rate) multiplied by the percent of the concentration it is on. So a BER
10 on a 100% spot will collect 10 units per minute, while a BER 13 will
collect 13 units per minute. On a perfect day (24 hour uptime, no
server downtime), there is a discrepency of 4,320 units. On a 75% spot,
the difference drops to 3,240 - while on a 60% spot (highest for ore and
the like), it is 2,592. If you are selling a resource for five (5) cpu,
you can earn 12,960cr more per day on a 60% spot per heavy (BER 13).
With the increase in extraction rate, you get an increase in the
maintenance and power requirements also. I don't have the info with me,
so I can't throw that into the equation. But then, you can get three
(almost four) mediums for the price of one heavy. That would be
comparing a BER of 30 to the BER of 13, but also paying three times the
cost in power/maintenance/lots. Heavy harvesters also require more flat
space to build on - that can be a big problem in some of the more hilly
areas.
In short (way too late), you do get an increase in production from the
heavies. Is the price differential worth it? That depends on your
situation. Personally, I have an army of mediums, reinforced by some
heavies for when the situation dictates (serious need of a resource,
amazing quality that I want to stockpile or sell, etc).
- Oalan (Rambling as much as ever)
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