Quality techs
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2025 2:30 am
This is a wild showerthought, but it could be a good incentive to quality science. Instead of or in addition to quality science being more durable, many *techs* could have quality levels that requires science bottles at corresponding quality to research. For example:
- Legendary advanced electricity distribution lets quality big electric poles have longer reach
- Uncommon rocket silo lets you build 2 cargo landing pads. Legendary lets you build 6
- Each level of legendary mining productivity gives you +25% instead of +10%
- Legendary bioflux processing gives all bioflux recipes some productivity boost (maybe 150%)
- Each quality level mech armor (tech) unlocks something different like:
- Reinforced concrete movement speed bonus on all terrain
- A fuel slot for more speed bonus
- Higher resistance
- Builtin night vision / battery / generator / etc.
- Being able to walk on space platforms
- Legendary braking forces becomes an infinite research
- Legendary advanced electricity distribution lets quality big electric poles have longer reach
- Uncommon rocket silo lets you build 2 cargo landing pads. Legendary lets you build 6
- Each level of legendary mining productivity gives you +25% instead of +10%
- Legendary bioflux processing gives all bioflux recipes some productivity boost (maybe 150%)
- Each quality level mech armor (tech) unlocks something different like:
- Reinforced concrete movement speed bonus on all terrain
- A fuel slot for more speed bonus
- Higher resistance
- Builtin night vision / battery / generator / etc.
- Being able to walk on space platforms
- Legendary braking forces becomes an infinite research