Moreover, nothing they've written has suggested that there are any guarantee's about the quality that comes out of an assembler on any given product. This is so jarring to me, logically, its like Optimus Prime showing up in Lord of the Rings. You keep saying this. But they have said it’s based off ...

You design an exact chip, with a specific number of transistors, for a specific purpose. During production you do not magically get a more useful/powerful chip because additional transistors appeared in the final product. Nor do you set out to make a V6 engine and occasionally get a V8. It's the ot...

Moreover, nothing they've written has suggested that there are any guarantee's about the quality that comes out of an assembler on any given product. This is so jarring to me, logically, its like Optimus Prime showing up in Lord of the Rings. Same here, this is wrong, you meant "nothing that y...

Le sigh, I'm not whining, I'm expressing an opinion, as are you. At no point have I said that the mechanic itself is worthless or somehow devoid of cleverness and game value, I'm saying it doesn't make sense logically. Why, in a completely automated factory, are the machines deviating from their pr...

We're not talking about thousands of an inch variances here, we're talking about significant advantages over lower quality items. If you want a car to run at 100 mph and it can only run at 90mph because of substandard manufacturing, that is a failure. Particularly if what you paid for was a car tha...

As near as I can discern, you don't even make high quality resources to build your high quality products, its just random. My approach has you produce high quality materials at the base level. The system they proposed (and is already working) has the concept of feeding higher quality intermediates ...

We're not talking about thousands of an inch variances here, we're talking about significant advantages over lower quality items. If you want a car to run at 100 mph and it can only run at 90mph because of substandard manufacturing, that is a failure. Particularly if what you paid for was a car tha...

The whole point of manufacturing is to produce an item of exacting, consistent, and reproducible specifications with as little waste as humanely possible. Real life quality mechanic: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/all-hail-the-ariane-5-rocket-which-doubled-the-webb-telescopes-lifetime/ Not...

I'm still not sold on the implementation of quality. Primarily, in what world is a 90% failure rate acceptable when manufacturing a product? I don't know if it applies equally to all product types, but the whole quality mechanic makes me think about microchip manufacturing. It's fairly common for m...

I'm still not sold on the implementation of quality. Primarily, in what world is a 90% failure rate acceptable when manufacturing a product? There is no failure rate in quality/factorio. No DOA. so, it's 0% failure rate, not 90%. As for variance in quality, getting it exactly right is nearly imposs...

I'm still not sold on the implementation of quality. Primarily, in what world is a 90% failure rate acceptable when manufacturing a product? Try to see it the other way round. And a little differently. The ordinary factory produces proper items. They are all fine and can all be used. But 10% of the...

I like how your suggestion does not fix the main issue you have with the implementation :D How so? I'm suggesting that at the bottom rung, you go to extra effort to double, triple, quadruple, etcetera "refine " the base raw materials until you have the quality material you need. This is a...

I'm still not sold on the implementation of quality. Primarily, in what world is a 90% failure rate acceptable when manufacturing a product? Suppose we could build end game rockets of quality, would it really make sense to build 10 rockets just to "ensure" we get one Uncommon Rocket to lau...

I like the idea in principle, but the randomness of the quality seems contradictory to the nature of engineering. IRL, Nobody would tolerate building a car, which randomly attains the desired quality, and subsequently recycling multiple runs of it until it comes out perfect by chance. Hilariously, ...

I like the idea in principle, but the randomness of the quality seems contradictory to the nature of engineering. IRL, Nobody would tolerate building a car, which randomly attains the desired quality, and subsequently recycling multiple runs of it until it comes out perfect by chance. I'd rather see...

Uffz, I don’t know what drives people to write so much about this subject. Can't speak for others, but for me, once you hit mid to late game, you're just building to build. Which is great up to a point. But once I've found a solution for building each product the game is essentially over. All your ...

TL;DR We need more kinds of enemies that behave and do things differently to create new and varied problems to solve well into the late game. I'm aware there are plenty of posts about "New/More/Type XYZ enemies", but those seem mostly about "this would be neat" or "I want&q...

You know as much as I'd like to see conditional scheduling, I can't imagine how complex it would be to implement in a truly programmatic way. I'd settle for something simpler. The ability to group stations in the GUI and a Condition that waits for the next station or group to be enabled before movin...