Here's how I think basic quality works:
I want to build a high quality Mech suit. I put together an assembly line for all the components, and feed normal components into an Assembler 3 with 4x Quality 2 modules. I get a 8% chance of an Uncommon Mech suit, and a 0.8% chance of a Rare Mech suit.
If I get Quality Quality modules, the % goes up a bit.
Is this correct so far?
If so, how does my chance of a quality mech suit increase if I feed in an Uncommon or Rare Power Armor Mk 2?
Or if some but not all of the components are of Quality?
Or do they all have to be of the same quality? If I feed in all Uncommon components, am I guaranteed an Uncommon, with an 8% chance of Rare?
Quality for dummies?
Re: Quality for dummies?
Items with different quality are different items. You cannot mix qualities within a recipe. We have 5 qualities, so actually we have every recipe in the game 5 times: each with a different quality (except the fluid recipes, since fluids don't have qualities).
So if you want to create a quality mech suit, you have 2 choices:
1. use the mech suit recipe with the intended quality. For example to create a legendary suit, you just need to set the legendary mech suit recipe in the assembling machine. Now you just have to supply all the ingredients - of course all legendary, since the legendary version of the recipes only accepts legendary ingredients. This will directly create a legendary suit, no quality modules required at all. The challenge with this is to get the ingredients in legendary quality.
2. use quality modules to have a chance that crafting an item for a given quality will output an item not with the given quality but instead with some higher quality. For example, you use the normal recipe to create a normal mech suit. This recipe only accepts normal quality ingredients. Not even higher quality ingredients: just normal ones. Add quality modules to the assembling machine, and you have a chance that crafting a normal suit according to the recipe will not output a normal suit but instead of some higher quality suit. The challenge with this is you need to create a bunch of normal quality items until you get one with a higher quality one.
Usually, you will combine both variants as long as you're not able to get legendary ingredients in high amounts. Create ingredients you need in higher quantity with choice 2 (use the upgrading with quality modules). Filter and store higher quality items. Once you have enough higher quality ingredients for some high value end product, create that high value end product with the destination quality recipe to get a guaranteed result. If you also add quality modules in that process, you get the guaranteed high quality item with the chance of an even higher quality "gift".
So if you want to create a quality mech suit, you have 2 choices:
1. use the mech suit recipe with the intended quality. For example to create a legendary suit, you just need to set the legendary mech suit recipe in the assembling machine. Now you just have to supply all the ingredients - of course all legendary, since the legendary version of the recipes only accepts legendary ingredients. This will directly create a legendary suit, no quality modules required at all. The challenge with this is to get the ingredients in legendary quality.
2. use quality modules to have a chance that crafting an item for a given quality will output an item not with the given quality but instead with some higher quality. For example, you use the normal recipe to create a normal mech suit. This recipe only accepts normal quality ingredients. Not even higher quality ingredients: just normal ones. Add quality modules to the assembling machine, and you have a chance that crafting a normal suit according to the recipe will not output a normal suit but instead of some higher quality suit. The challenge with this is you need to create a bunch of normal quality items until you get one with a higher quality one.
Usually, you will combine both variants as long as you're not able to get legendary ingredients in high amounts. Create ingredients you need in higher quantity with choice 2 (use the upgrading with quality modules). Filter and store higher quality items. Once you have enough higher quality ingredients for some high value end product, create that high value end product with the destination quality recipe to get a guaranteed result. If you also add quality modules in that process, you get the guaranteed high quality item with the chance of an even higher quality "gift".
Re: Quality for dummies?
Perfect, thank you!