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?

  • Occultist0178@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    If you think that is expensive, just wait until you get to legendary… But resources are infinite, so it doesn’t really matter, it’s just a question of the scale of your factory

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    It’s a long game thing until you get asteroid reprocessing.

    Then you can brute force higher quality ores from asteroids and upcycle them faster then using mining drills.

    • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I’ve seen asteroid reprocessors and it seems soooo simple compared to what I’m doing. It almost feels like cheating.

  • Bloodyhog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    This is a game of scale. You just need to build a shitton of everything, until you have legendary tier stuff in abundance. Then you can downsize ( but you should not, of course. The factory must grow!). The god of Factorio, Nilaus, has a lot to share. Do check him on YT if you need inspiration.

    • Giloron@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      It improves the stats in some way. Armor has more slots, assemblers are faster, batteries have more capacity, …

      The recipe is for using quality ingredients to guarantee at least that quality output.

      The modules are for the random chance of getting a quality output.

      Quality batteries aren’t too hard to make and really helped with the limited space on Fulgora before I got the foundations. Same with quality furnaces and generators which produce more from the same input.

      • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Thank you Giloron I appreciate you taking some time to explain it simply! I deleted my comment just before you replied since I wasn’t sure it was appropriate to ask here instead of looking it up. Anyways you gave an excellent overview I get it now, will have to try out the quality stuff sometime :)

    • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I appreciate the link, but that doesn’t offer much understanding. I read that page and used it to come up with my scenario. I have to do an example to understand things.