Quality rebalance
After playing Space Age for 400 hours, I love quality!
It's my favorite feature in the expansion.
However... it also feels underbaked in a few areas.
This vanilla-style mod is designed to fix the remaining issues in the quality system.
All features can be toggled.
Quality ALL THE THINGS
The quality mechanic has many strange exceptions.
Why does it not effect agricultural towers?
Why does it buff pumps but not offshore pumps?
Why doesn't the rocket silo animation speed also scale?
Agricultural towers
- Planting radius scales with quality.
- Harvester arm speed scales with quality.
Rocket silo
- Animation speed of the silo now scales with quality.
- Crafting speed of the rocket scales with quality.
Belts
- Belt speed scales with quality up to 2x faster.
Pipes & Storage Tanks
- Max extent scales with quality.
- Fluid volume scales with quality.
Trains
- Acceleration power scales with quality.
- Top speed scales with quality.
Cargo Wagons & Fluid Wagons
- Inventory size scales with quality.
Rail Supports & Rail Ramps
- Quality rail supports can support more elevated rails.
- Works with rail planner!
Chests
- Storage size scales with quality.
Lamps
- Brightness scales with quality.
Offshore Pump
- Pumping speed scales with quality.
Combinators
- Energy usage decreases with quality.
- At legendary, combinators do not require energy.
Better factoriopedia integration
Recycler recipes are viewable in factoriopedia.
No more "Haste makes waste"
Beacon your quality setups! Go nuts!
Quality farming
Planting quality seeds creates quality trees.
This makes it possible to craft legendary gleba science!
Quality promethium science
In Space Age, promethium asteroid chunks are a "self-recycle" meaning that you would need around 65536 asteroid chunks to create 1 legendary asteroid chunk.
Even uncommon science would be 16x more expensive than normal quailty science.
This means that quality promethium science is never worth making.
This mod adds a new promethium reprocessing recipe designed to interact well with the quality system.
Quality holmium
The holmium plate recipe is crafted via a holmium fluid.
This means it's impossible to convert quality holmium ore into quality holmium plates.
This mod adds a new way to make quality holmium by using some aquilo mechanics.
Credits
Huge thank-you to SoulBurn for the janky quality mod. (MIT)
Portions of this codebase was re-used to implement the upgrade planner.