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TL;DR

A couple of suggestions to make quality more feasible on Gleba. Because right now it kind of sucks.

What?

Currently, it's hard, if not impossible, to do quality science on Gleba. Because whilst you can get quality jelly from grinding up stack inserters, mash does not have a single recipe that outputs mash as part of the ingredients in recycling. This means the only way for you to get quality mash, is by simply constantly grinding mash and HOPING you get quality mash. Which, with the insanely short spoil time of 3 minutes at base and 7.30 at legendary, needs to be processed ASAP to get legendary anything.

So, I'd like to see wube implement/change a recipe so that it allows us to recycle it for quality mash. Because the only alternative right now is making normal bioflux, turning it into a capture bot rocket, then quality grinding that. Which is, frankly, ludicrously expensive compared to how we can obtain holmium/tungsten as quality.

Personally, I'd think one of the following could work:
1. Let us recycle carbon fibre into yumako mash and carbon.
2. Give quality seeds a chance to hold higher quality fruit, up to the level of the seed. Agri tower quality determines the actual percentage chance.
3. Instead of a chance-based system, let us harvest legendary seeds for legendary fruit.

Why?

By making quality easier to obtain on Gleba the planet as a whole and especially its' recipes become a lot more valuable. Because, if you can just 'grow' legendary fruit, you can turn it into legendary ore, of which you can then make legendary products, allowing it to somewhat compete with Fulgora/Vulcanus in terms of how easy those 2 are to make quality stuff on.

You think the game should be balanced around quality science? It’s practically a meme feature.

Also, only Fulgora is particularly good at quality, which makes perfect sense considering what it unlocks. Vulcanus is only marginally better at it than Nauvis, while Gleba is only marginally worse than Nauvis. So in the end it doesn’t particularly matter where you do it.