Leasing Cost Per Day Bug?

[Ghost]

I thought I was going insane, i keep thinking there is chunks of money missing from my total balance in the game.

When I looked at the leasing costs per day, it's going up exponentially. I have the following on lease:

2 x Claas 960 tractors
1 x Claas Harvester ( big one ) plus non-corn header
2 x Seeders 1 big one, 1 small one ( stara and amazone )

I've been noticing chunks of 20k missing, when I looked at total lease cost per day (about $15,000 for all this stuff ) how is it possible that on "Today" the Vehicle Lease Costs went from $44,531, to $66,444 to $73,563 in the space of a couple of hours ( and game time is on real-time mode whilst im harvesting and re-seeding ).

I've been doing Fertilizing contracts with my own equipment too so no lease cost from the contract.

Is this a bug ?

[Silencer]

Sounds like you're putting hours on your leased equipment. It's not just a per day cost, it's also for every real operating hour you are charged a fee.

[Ruges]

When you lease equipment you have
Base cost: When you first click on lease you are charged this amount
Per operating hour: For ever hour the machine is in use you are chaged this.
Per day: Once per day you are charged this.

Lets take the amazone for example.
Base cost: $4,480
Per Operating hour: $4,704
Per day: $2,240

When you first lease that equipment you are charged $4,480. For every hour you operate that machine you are charged 4,704. And everyday you keep the machine whether you use it or not you are charged $2,240. However when you first lease the equpment you have to pay the first day and the first hour and the initial cost upfront.

So you lease it the first day, Run it for 5 hours. Then the second day you run it for another 5 hours and then you return it. your total cost is going tto be $56,000

And thats for only running it 5 hours a day. If you ran it 15 hours a day That cost jumps up to $150,080.

As you can see leasing equipment is not a very effecient use of money. And by comparision you can take out a $500,000 loan buy the equipment And your interest payments on that loan are only going to be $3,500 a day. So its way more cost effective to take out a loan then it is to lease.

So why lease over take out a loan and buy? Well maybe you cannot take out a big enough loan to buy the equipment you need. So leasing would be your only option. Sometimes my first harvest I will lease the harvest. but try and buy one by the 2nd harvest of a game. Or maybe I want a field planted in grass and I will never need a seeder again after that, so leasing the seeder and returning it after is a good option. But gernally I always try to buy over lease. Even if its something that I only need for an hour. and expecially if I use it less then an hour. buying and then selling it back is cheaper then leasing.

Bonus knowledge: The game calculates your max loan ($500K MIN) off how many assets you have ~80% value. However it only calculates this value when you buy a structure. And once you log out of the game it forgets this value until you buy a new structure. So if you have a Million dollars in assets you should be able to take out a $800k loan. but normally it will only allow you to take out a $500k loan. If you buy say a sandcastle for $200. it will then calculate your assets and allow you to take out an oppropirate amount.

[Ghost]

Cheers man, I didn’t realise the mechanics of the game calculated the lease cost on hours as well :/ stupid me .. I was basically running the tractors on contracts with helpers while I was multitasking other stuff, then 20k would disappear and I thought I was going mad :) makes perfect sense now thanks for all the input, very valuable

[Destroy]

Originally posted by Ruges:

When you lease equipment you have

For example.
Base cost: $4,480
Per Operating hour: $4,704
Per day: $2,240

When you first lease that equipment you are charged $4,480.
For every hour you operate that machine you are charged 4,704.
And everyday you keep the machine whether you use it or not you are charged $2,240. However when you first lease the equipment you have to pay the first day and the first hour and the initial cost upfront.

This was very helpful!! I was kind of confused on leasing.
Thanks for the clear info.

[Pops_Rogers]

If you're gonna lease then lease use quick and return. Leasing and keeping higher priced equipment can add up real fast as others have explained.

[Bromstine]

Originally posted by Pops_Rogers:

If you're gonna lease then lease use quick and return. Leasing and keeping higher priced equipment can add up real fast as others have explained.

Yes and no. If you lease the same stuff every other day, it's cheaper to keep it. Every time you lease you pay 2% of the total value. You only pay 1% of the value per day. Use it two days in a row, and lease it every time, means 6% of value base cost. If you lease it and keep it two days, it's only 4% of value. The operating cost is the same either way.

[Psiur cielak]

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