I understand that it was probably never the intent for excavators to always fill their buckets, but the Mega Excavator's inefficiency is excessive. Even under ideal conditions such as in the screenshot, where there's massive amounts of materials above the target designations, they somehow manage to not get a full bucket very frequently. This is not an area of shallow dirt mounds where this would be understandable.
This is particularly bad because mega vehicles already... kinda suk. They look cool, and, at least for me, was expected to be a moment of excitement when I unlocked them for the first time in U2, but then I noticed that they are not that much of an upgrade even on paper. Per unit throughput, they consume 2/3 the fuel and 2/3 the Maintenance, but the Maint is M2 instead of M1 so it's either hardly better or actually worse depending on which Maint inputs are more valued at the time.
If efficiency was the selling point, megas are hardly worth the trouble of accomdating for their horizontal & vertical clearance requirements, which is usually at least a bit of a nuisance when you are eventually forced to utilize them due to the vehicle limit.
So the least they can do is operate closer to their theoretical max throughput which is already unimpressive.
Perhaps the "vacuum radius" of the mega excav needs to be increased? Or maybe each one can be allowed to dig multiple designations at once?
