According to your approach, the reactor takes 8 second to build, therefore 1 assembly can build 7.5 per hour, meaning 1500 reactor during a 200 hour long game, and if you take 3% that still amount to 450 reactors. If you have legendary quality module, that still represent 25% that are legendary, so 112.5 right ?computeraddict wrote: βTue Oct 31, 2023 7:23 amSay you have an iron gear assembler and a roboport assembler. A quality module in the roboport assembler is doing MORE THAN FOURTY-FIVE TIMES as much work when it's working as if you stuck the same module in the iron gear assembler. Even if it's idle 97% of the time, it's still better off in the roboport* assembler than in a 100% uptime iron gear assembler. (Once you factor in the red chips and steel that go into a roboport, the roboport assembler could be idle 99.9% of the time and still be a better use case for the module than the iron gear assembler.)
I don't think the reactor loop to upgrade quality at the last step including an assembly that craft nuclear reactor with 4 quality module inside it will function 100% of the time. In normal game it's not something that is going to happen, and if it does, that's still means you have some "dead weight" of module not being in machine functionning 100% of the time for a longer game/ "at some point". think about the exoskeletons in the armor ? how much % of assembly in a normal game ?
And what about the personnal roboport ? maybe better place module in the recycler for them than in the assembly making roboport ? why compare with the iron gear assembly ?
Getting high quality intermediate is valuable because it's versatile, if you recycle robotframe, not only can you get easily the 2 different robots, but you also give yourself the ability to collect high quality lubricated engine, for the exoskeletons which saves you 3 loops, maybe more.
Sure robotframe are slow, but who cares ? that's in game time for the factory, what really matters is real life time for the player, setting 1 loop is faster than setting 3 loop if they are going to stay idle 97+% of the time