Sate of Decay 2: Staging area not doing what its supposed to do?

[Rontje]

Staging area is said to drop all maintenance costs? but I still need to pay materials for beds and the garden after building? Am I getting this buildings ability wrong?

[Sundance]

The staging area does cover "maintenance costs", those are still shown in the overview but also got a bonus from this one.
Fuel costs or other costs additional from mods are not covered by this.
For example my daily material costs from the upgraded beds are covered, but not the fuel costs if i'd put a generator inside.
Also why does your garden need any ressources daily?
I didn't build the lvl3 one but up to lv2 there are no maintenance costs.

[Rontje]

Thanks for the reply, solved :) In the screenshot I took of my management it says materials: Machine shop +1, Staging area +3, beds -1, beds -1, farm -1, outpost +1. I guess what you mean is that it adds as much as the base areas take, that makes sense :) tnx. The farm is on a big plot, maybe thats the difference? the one on the small plot doesn't take materials.