Talk:Extractor/@comment-174.52.92.127-20140321064129/@comment-173.178.250.181-20140322202225

I've been using Titan Extrators for quite a while now. Here's the best I can answer you, based on my personnal experiance.


 * 1: From what I understand from, the damage mechanics, it is theoritically possible to lose an Extractor within 4 hours, but the odds are so low, you're better off buying lottery tickets. In over 5 months I've never seen an Extractor die within 4 hours, they usually die anywhere between 15 to 30 hours of continued deployement. On a normal week where I have no time to game, I wake up around 8 am, empty my extractors, replace damaged ones (more of that later), and go to work, transition to school, get back home around at around 11 pm. About half of the time, the extractors took NO damage, otherwise they vary between 30% and 85% remaning health. I've never seen an extractor die within 10 hours of deployement.


 * 2: I have yet to purchase the distilling extrator. Cannot help you.


 * 3: From my personal understanding, every so often, the game will roll a dice (like, maybe every 30 minutes, if not hours) to see if your extrator gets damaged. It may completely avoid damage (I've had extractors take no damage for over 24 hours), or it may take a hit. The amount of damage taken varies each time, I've seen extractors at 93% health before, just like I've seen some with 1 health remaining. Distilling Extractors have 200 health, where as Titan Extractors only have 100. So while Distillings take twice as long to gather resources, they are also twice as tanky. Also, concerning damage, you can un-deploy (reclaim) extractors at any point of it's resource gathering (either when you just empty-ed it, or what it has 10 seconds left of having harvested resources) to have it back in your inventory. While in your inventory, Extractors regenerate their health. It takes about 8 hours for an extractors to heal from under 20 hp to 100.  I assume it takes more time to heal Distillings, but I could be wrong.

Pro tip: I can deploy 4 extractors at once. I have 8 built, and every now and then when I log on to claim their resources (twice a day, as I explained in my life cycle in question #1) I will undeploy the damage ones and replace them with full health ones. Doing this, I have never lost a single extractor in over 3 months.

Hope this helps you.

-Lordmsyk