recyclers in action

i have been trying diffrent ways of sending out my recyclers and it seems to me that if i break them into 4 groops of 2 and send them to diffrent astroids i end up getting more resources than sending all 8 in one groop to a single astroid can anyone confirm or proove it wrong ? just curious

I don't think you can actually prove it, but it makes sense to me.

If you send all 8 to one asteroid, they may harvest all of it, but not fill up all 8. If you send 2 to an asteroid, they probably won't harvest it all, but will all return full.

yeah thats sounds right

Total all the resources of the asteroid.
Send 1 recycler for every 4000 resources.

For example if one had:
3000 metal
3000 crystal
7000 Tritium

The total would be 13000
13000 / 4000 = 3.25

So I would send 3 recyclers who would collect almost half of the total resources of the asteroid.
If I sent 4 I would only get 1500 Metal, 1500 Crystal and 3500 Tritium, for a total of 6500 resources, which is below the max capacity of 4 recyclers at 8000 resources.

so what your saying i need to use my math skills? you ask a lot

lol

just tried out your theory here ar the the reports

Time: 06/19/09 06:30:38 PM
Your recycling troops have reached the comet.
Findings include: 3247 metal, 3606 crystal and 5802 tritium.
94 metal, 104 crystal and 168 tritium were harvested.
i sent 6 ships on this one

Time: 06/19/09 06:41:07 PM
Your recycling troops have reached the comet.
Findings include: 2184 metal, 3186 crystal and 3248 tritium.
1014 metal, 1479 crystal and 1508 tritium were harvested.
sent 2 on this one

The first one someone got there just a bit before you, so they'd already taken most of the available resources.

The second was max resources your recyclers could carry, so like good mine.

yeah i was thinking prety much the same thing so i don't see any sence in sending out big groops of recyclers instead send out lots of smaller groops you'll end up getting more

Yeah, good policy, don't keep all your eggs in one basket. But if you have a heap of recyclers, you can only have 20 max fleet spots. So it might be a good idea to look for bigger bounty at that point.
Such as other players

but then transports are better there. granted titan small transports only carry 800 resorces as apposed to a recycler carrying 2k. you can also get to planets and back 2-4 times faster with a transport then you can a recycler, plus the transports are cheeper.

Yeah, by that point I meant keep your fleet spots for valuable things like raiding.