Hello

I like the idea of the mod very much, but I think its a little to bit OP with scaling factor of 4.
Because of the fact that You can add much more beacons around a bigger assembler the speed of that machine increasing to very big values very fast.
I know this is the idea, but its also causes, that the space needed to set up factory becomes much lower, so even big factory looks kind of small.

I think maybe is possible to add a variable in mod settings in game, that will allow player to set scaling factor between lets say 0.5 to 4 based on personal preferences.

True, I do not like productivity module for giving extra resources from nearly-free energy. It is unrealistically too good.
And I hate spamming beacons even more. (Someone wrote mods about that, overlapping beacons will overload and stop machines in the area. So only one beacon max on a machine at a time.)
But then it is the problem on modules and beacons, NOT related to the scaling factor.
If you limit yourself not to use (or only a few) beacons, then there is not a problem at all. It is a matter of self-discipline.

Maybe I can add an option to disallow module effects in some future, but I cannot promise as I never tried that and do not know how that may work.
But again this is a matter of self-discipline, user can still opt out of the option.
(The primary purpose of this mod is just "merging" multiple entities in a single scaled-up entity, without non-essential modifications. So such extra limitation will never be forcefully applied.)

The scaling factor of 4 is based on the setting of machine tier +(n+1) is exactly four machines tier +n. It is like a fundamental property and there is not much to change.
Scaling factor of less than 1 or even 1 does not make sense. Why should I provide such "high tier" machines if they are not better than their basic ones?
For such a narrow valid range, I do not think it worth the trouble to allow freely set the scaling factor. Especially, the problem lies in the modules and beacons, not here.