How do people even care about quality?
Legendary being unlocked at the very end means quality itself gets unlocked at the very end.
You either go for legendary or you dont bother to even get started.


Uncommon and rare are a significant improvement over normal and are very accessible even in ...

Asteroids in orbit are absolutely necessary though.

Your spaceship just wasn't up to snuff and could produce enough ammo to deal with them. You literally need a station hovering over each planet (especially once you deal with Calcite for furnaces).

Don't touch red ammo or complex rockets tho ...

Well, it's very easy to see that people are doing the whole quality process all wrong.

It essentially requires:

This is how it splits out (for each step and end of the line)

Normal --> Normal
Normal --> Uncommon/Rare/Epic/Legendary
Uncommon --> Uncommon
Rare --> Rare
Epic --> Epic
Legendary ...