Currently quality toggles get replaced with dropdown even if you add one modded quality.
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It should be configurable in settings, so you can switch to drop down/toggles depending on your preferences.
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A mod that adds 5 - 10 quality levels wouldn't crowd out quality ...

LCStark wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 4:44 pm

Dictator wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 4:43 pm This is on 2.0.45?

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Ah so they forgot to list it in changelog.

On stable version around 2.40 or so reducing all evolution factors to "1" didn't disable achievements - evolution was active, just at snail pace.
So turning off evolution disables it, but reducing it to minimum doesn't.
Not sure if its changed on this experimental version.


Alright, checked it ...

I guess reducing or disabling evolution also should disable some achievements for completeness sake.


It does. At least when I totally disabled it, the achievements were marked as disabled. I haven't checked if it does that for lower values, but I assume it does that for all "easier" settings ...

Fixed that the achievements checks of map startup difficulty settings didn't check for pollution, expansion settings, starting area and trees.

I guess reducing or disabling evolution also should disable some achievements for completeness sake.

Yeah, I mass produced legendary bulk (green ones) inserters.
I have to make legendary stack inserters yet.

I guess I should use less than 8 beacons and start planning for direct insertation for some more recipes at some point - inserters are faster if it doesn't interact with belt
8/10 (bigger for ...

I never understand the purpose of this, if people want "better" UPS just don't produce anything. Or just use unlimited chess and cheat. Having "OP" factory destroy the point of factorio, deal with constraint. If you want to remove these constraint where is the game ?


Well inserters are too slow ...

This is meant for following scenario:
You have everything legendary - inserters, pumps, machines, modules, etc.
So even one tiny subfactory uses legendary machine with legendary beacons and t3 modules.
You already optimized your base for DI and UPS.

I would like to suggest multiple things, that ...

Railgun Damage doesn't use Aquilo science unlike other Aquilo unlocked techs I would expect, that it requires aquilo science to research like its unlocks.

I generated this map
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Here is its exchange string:
>>>eNp1Uj2IE0EUnrkYcuYSjRIEIZwprhJioSIWkh1tVAQr+2WymeQGNztxdiZyZ2GKKywEGxuv0doDrSwEhYCNgoKgIHYnZ2Fhcf4gdnFmd2czuxcH3ts373t/39tZAAA0lYBGDd+Q1Geux2WXuIz6W4+PtwGYIC0lD/seFcT27fMYzgSVPTYcEt5iPBO3P6rYylUsk4AM1lodHBIAxo6Ras+XjNOAuCMSCDuh2pN ...

Reducing steam production by 10x would be fine - it still would make more steam than heat exchanger, and you could use modules, beacons and quality without hitting limits almost immediately.

I mean its power density is high enough to compete with nuclear power, if not fusion (if fluids weren't capped).

Common heat exchanger produces 103 steam/s
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Common unmoduled chemical plant produces 2000 steam/s
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This means it produces 20x more steam than steam turbine, very quickly you can reach its limit of 6000 units/s of fluid.
Since you can module and beacon it, there would be no ...

For this stuff I use steel boxes:
Bacteria or Ore -> inserter -> Steel box -> Inserter with ore filter -> belt.
10 steel boxes are good enough early.

Belts with bacteria
Inserters
Chests
Inserters with ore filter
Belts with ore, continuing to furnaces.

Alternatively you can use belt weaving so it ...

That's not a bug.


What is reason for seemingly random techs not having a description?
Random missing text seemed like a bug.


Most other things in the game doesn't have a description either. It's often unnecessary, and I guess Wube doesn't want to waste time writing them, and translating ...

Loewchen wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 12:21 pm That's not a bug.

What is reason for seemingly random techs not having a description?
Random missing text seemed like a bug.

While this was posted somewhere outside of bug reports, I think its bug report worthy.

Most of those have flavor text (description) like Automation Science.
"Allows research of basic automation methods."
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Such line is missing for following techs:
Steam Power
Electric Mining Drill ...

Quality quality modules can handle some haste due to higher base quality, but you can forget about skipping whole tiers of quality.
Legendary speed modules create more haste with same waste (quality reduction)

Here are quality chances with legendary quality modules.
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Cryogenic plants ...

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Others, some very early techs have no description too