The default alerts for quality increases are already relatively subtle, and then there is also the option to condense them all into one notification every 5 minutes for less spam.
But how about another option that makes it more spammy, for those of us who want all the bling-bling for a proper casino vibe with our little dopamine factory? ;) Like a full chat message (with sound!) for every level-up? Ideally also with something like map crosshairs blinking where the machine is, so we can easily see which one leveled up.

Haha I love that. I'll see what's possible and follow up!

This has been a lot of fun to implement and test.

I think it will take some time to take it as far as I'd want, so I'm planning to release some early flashier notification options, and then keep working on adding some better ones.

It's nice to provide attribution for people that provide ideas or report issues. This feels like a major idea that I wouldn't have considered on my own, so I was thinking of doing a slightly bigger attribution, either in the settings name, description, or maybe mod description page. Is that something you would be comfortable with? It's also fine to leave it out, no worries!

None of these are set in stone, just brainstorming ideas.

Setting name could look like:
Lady Lucina's Extra Bling: Colorful Chat Alert [ ]

Or settings description:
Rainbow Blast [ ]
- From Lady Lucina's Bling Collection: Release a colorful rainbow wave when an entity upgrades.

Or maybe just in the mod description I can credit your username for coming up with the idea?
Once again, no pressure at all! I'll release something soon either way, and can add attribution later if it's something you would enjoy seeing.

"Sarravine's Dopamine Machine" is the best idea I could come up with xD
Lady_Lucina is a legacy name that this place didn't adopt when I changed it on Steam. Sarravine is my typical gamer tag nowadays. But your choice, Lucina is my real name, so it's not wrong either way, lol.

I already considered writing an appreciation post, because I love this mod. There are many similar ones out there, but this is the first one I found that actually feels balanced and not busted overpowered like the others. If anything this one actually feels a little on the weaker side (with default settings), but that's exactly how I want it. I want like rewards popping up every now and then, not something that makes producing quality materials obsolete for buildings. The casino bling needs to actually mean something, not be something I get pelted by until I'm desensitized to it xD

And since we are already at ideas and suggestions, what I would do is make the balanced nature more obvious for someone that comes across this mod when browsing. The first time I saw it I literally rejected it with something like an "Ew, it's another one of those" thought xD In fact, the "assemblers earn quality for the entire factory" made me think this one is even more busted than the others. Then the screenshots show all the epic and legendary machines. Only once I ran into it again and actually read through the full description, I realized "Wait, this actually sounds fairly balanced." And then I think what in the end caught me for good was the "soft pity" mechanic, because I love that.

So I would actually emphasize the balanced nature of this mod a little more so people don't walk past because of false assumptions. Though admittedly the new description already sounds more modest than the older one.

Thank you for your wonderful and insightful comment! You are so kind, and getting positive feedback is such a dopamine boost.

That makes a lot of sense to me to emphasize the balanced nature of the mod, and I like the idea of updating the screenshots to show a more subtle impact on gameplay.

Looking forward, some more ideas I'm exploring for celebrating upgrades:
- a full screen confetti effect (similar to something that happens in vampire hunters), the visuals could scale up with quality
- a disco ball effect around the machine that is upgraded
- maybe waiting until the player is looking at the entity to play the entity-based visual effects

I'll also update the naming, Sarravine's Dopamine Machine is fantastic :D

The trickiest part about scaling visuals is probably mods that add extra quality tiers. Unless it doesn't scale with the quality a machine turned into, but with how many tiers it went up. Because then anything going up more than 4 tiers could still simply use the Normal => Legendary visuals, because that's rare enough to be ignored.

Yeah that's a good point! It would be nice to figure out something that works for all cases (mods that add a few new levels, vs the big unlimited quality level mods).

My initial thought is to define a maximum confetti level (like 1000 pieces), then figure out a scaling curve that matches the highest count with the last quality level? Maybe? My initial thoughts are often wrong, will have to experiment '^_^

Would it be ok if I reached out on steam? I don't have anything new to try yet, but if you are willing to test out some ideas before they are shipped it would be super helpful. No pressure tho!

Sure, you can reach out on Steam if you want.
I just started a game of Nullius, so I can't use the mod there, because there is no Quality, but I guess I can cook something up just for quick testing.

Yay! No worries, I may not have time to work on things for a bit. Friend invite sent (from Laethos)