Half/Half doesn't work out statistically after i thinking about it.


Agreed, I was running some simulations in excel using the logistic curve and you can clamp the distribution and use a bias (ie. [-0.1+bias, 0.1+bias]) to steer the effect in a positive/negative way.
After 20 iterations, even ...

If you just want someone to punch you into the face you can get the same effect by giving every recipe a chance to fail completely. Which is actually something that the engine can do right now. I.e. copper wires recipe with half cost but only 50% chance to produce.


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Belts are buffers. Spaghetti factories have lots of belts. So the opposite of that would happen.


But that's under the assumption that their performance characteristics are static; could be compounding over time leading to disparities between upper tier recipe input availability.
Just because ...

That might be true late to end game when you're already scaled to the point where resource inefficiencies are irrelevant at the micro scale; especially if you've already had the foresight (or at least good practices) to build in balances and buffers to compensate.

But I think during early to mid ...

Maybe not for every single action, but there could be some static distribution of modifiers and then the entity would be assigned one on creation.
I would be happy if each machine had a distinct efficiency characteristic and this was static throughout the lifetime of the entity.

Lol you'd have to ...