Neat idea.

I don't see this as being a good change overall as in most cases it turns quality modules into worse productivity modules, but for some things (holmium ore for example) I could see it as being useful.

How to make higher quality biter eggs? Is recycling them the only way?


Recycling with quality modules is the only way. I do not recommend doing this without artificial biter spawners as you need a lot of eggs.


This appears wrong too me, as you can also recycle overgrowth soil, or ...

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How to make higher quality biter eggs? Is recycling them the only way?


Recycling with quality modules is the only way. I do not recommend doing this without artificial biter spawners as you need a lot of eggs.
Edit: Sorry I misremembered. See mmmPI's comment for some items you can use for ...

This is a MAJOR oversight :P But seriously I never liked the change that allows all inserters to filter anyway, it's rather lame imo. Having inserters filtering items is a niche use case which was perfectly fitted for that single special inserter which you had to use. If you need this constantly ...

There is not a single production chain where you continuously create legendary items from legendary items without a supply of normal items.

Yes, you do need some Upgraded materials initially no matter what. However, remember that Low Density Structures (Legendary) recycle into:
Copper Plates ...

For point two: They are twice as efficient as lightning rods and cover a larger area. Why not use them?


1. They are 2x2 instead of 1x1, cost a lot and are unlocked when your base is already covered
2. Lightning efficiency is never a limiting factor, you are always capped by the accumulators ...

Pros:
This change surves multiple purposes:

1. Makes player value the existing lightning attractors, currently they serve no purposes besides the earliest game
2. Makes player use big lightning collectors, becuase in the current game they are mostly not needed. See also: 125328: Lightning ...

Belt madness 3 has been broken since red and blue belts had undergrounds extended. Now it is even easier.

I'm not sure what the mode I'm playing is called. I understand there's a "Peaceful Mode" where there are enemies, but they only attack you if you attack them first. Or something like that. Then there's "No Enemies Mode" where enemies don't exist. I'm playing this second mode.

As for publishing ...

I'm not sure there is a point to be made
I haven't played around with it too much so I'll trust you on this.

About auto launch, i may be wrong but i feel the main problem is that players have different ideas of what a "smarter" one should do, because they have different playstyle and such, so ...

This would make it clearer to players on Vulcanus for the first time that the steam from acid neutralisation is superheated. It's inconsistent with other aspects of gameplay that one has to research Nuclear Power just to get the Steam Turbines to be used here. Heat Exchangers and Heat Pipes don't ...

Not even the power boost on Vulcanus can make solar a viable primary power source.


It's not the power boost that's most important (though it certainly helps) but the hugely reduced materials cost. On Nauvis, even ignoring the space requirements, the capital cost is very large. Solar power ...

+1

Although maybe add rather than replace as new players probably should be pushed to look at fusion.

Blue shotgun shells are now the worst value recipe in the game, and it doesn't seem close.
Does this matter? Unlike magazines, shotgun shells are only used in combat and only by the engineer, so their cost doesn't really matter.

Feels bad.
I can't say you are wrong about this, but strictly ...

i've always found it weird that there was uranium ammo for the the SMG, but no uranium ammo for the shotgun. I don't use the shotgun ever, but i would be far more tempted to use it if there was a uranium variant of the piercing ammo.
If my math is right, combat shotgun + piercing shells deals more ...

Both quality seeds and quality holmium ore feel like they "should" do something better than normal ones but don't. I don't really have a proposition, just pointing out similarities.


Hey i just gave my opinion in response, i had perfectly understood your point, maybe what i meant was unclear ...

1. Promoting the shotgun to default unlock.
2. Move piercing shotgun shells from Military 4 to Military 2.
3. Half shotgun movement penalty duration.
4. Add piercing_damage to piercing shotgun shells.

of these 4 things I can't really speak to the third one because I don't really use the ...

I'm still interested in proposition that would make quality seed "valuable", i feel the speed of growth for trees would work well because there's less drawbacks i can see, it forces player to find a way to "stop" their agricultural tower if they haven't already, that's it. I don't think it's a ...

Ore/plate upcycling is not as easy to scale as asteroids, because it’s much slower. A lot slower, really. That’s all there is to it, the raw output numbers. They’re both roughly equally easy to build, except one of them has appropriate power for its complexity level. That’s what makes one balanced ...