Talk:Excavation/@comment-98.249.97.62-20160729175248/@comment-4448946-20160808012324

Lets look at the steps for staying vs leaving after 3.

Stay                                     - Leave

Excavator 3 finishes           - Excavator 3 finishes

Start Excavator 4               - Get to extraction

Excavator 4 Finishes          - Load back into Mission

Do Excavator 5                   - Do Excavator 1

Do Excavator 6                   - Do Excavator 2

Do Excavator 7                   - Do Excavator 3

If you are doing exactly 1 extractor at a time and you can load out and back into the mission in only 100 seconds then the two methods are equally fast.

As soon as you start doing extractors simultaneously or if you have longer load times staying will quickly become faster. With a good team you can run 3 extractor at once and would be starting excavator 7 at the same time you'd be starting excavator 1 if you left.