I started a second space age play thru. I felt it was a little fast so I upped research 5x. I also decided to embrace quality, as I barely touched it in play thru #1.

It’s expensive. Let’s just assume 10% quality. If you have 10% to get uncommon, then you have to make 10 to get 1. If you recycle the other 9, then you get 25% back and 10% of that can be quality. So you get roughly 2 normal back and 0.2 uncommon.

If you make 50, you get 5 on first run. On recycle, you get 1 uncommon and 10 normal back. So you can count those as -10 on the initial cost. Net result is 6 uncommon cost 40 normal.

Am I doing that math right?

  • Khanzarate@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Fulgora is a good place for quality. I dunno if you’re avoiding spoilers so I won’t go into why unless you ask, but it’s a great fit.

    I just got to aquilo, myself, and my current quality strategy is to stick quality modules in miners and early production, hoard quality things in many many chests, then if I want to actually make something quality, I see what I have.

      • Khanzarate@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I mostly use it for higher end ship stuff. Cargo bays, asteroid collectors, etc.

        Or, as epic and legendary get unlocked, recycle more and more of it to get those tiers.

        Like, right now i’m sitting on about 16 chests of quality iron, which is the limit I built into my production system, so pretty soon I gotta get some circuitry together to recycle the uncommon stuff automatically. It’ll flow through recyclers until it all becomes epic tier, where it’ll sit more compactly in a chest waiting for legendary.

        But honestly, it’s best use for me has been taking old parts of my base and bringing them up to speed.

        Just like how eventually, you might upgrade from t1 crafters to t2, to t3, to t3 w/ speed modules, quality crafting machines always raises speed. Anywhere you find yourself wishing for more module slots for speed, or for more efficiency modules to go with speed, that’s a good spot for quality machines. A Rare T2 assembler is basically the same speed as a T3, after all.

        For me, that was red circuit production. I built them with t2, upgraded to t3, upgraded again to t3 with speed modules because I didn’t have the room, then removed speed for prod modules and made them quality to compensate for the speed loss.