What if, instead of a one-size-fits-all approach to localizing the quality tiers, item prototypes could have individualized localizations for their five quality tiers?
The Enormous Fish (vs. Large, Above Average, Average, Small) in the Like-New (vs. Excellent, Very Good, Good, and Worn) Used-Up Uranium Fuel Cell wrote this on a Pure (vs. High Quality, Refined, Passable, and Raw) Copper Plate, for use in Precision-Tuned (vs. Well-tuned, Tuned, Functional, and Cobbled Together) Assembling Machine 1.
(No, not all "common" tier items need have "sorta negative" connotations; I was just having a bit of literary fun
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