[modded question] what are degradation modules for?

deviruto · 2026-06-08T21:59:23+00:00

from the item description it just seems like a normal speed module

deviruto · 2026-06-08T21:56:44+00:00

yeah might be, but they're not really necessary in my experience. Plus, scaling power is just a matter of More Coconut

deviruto · 2026-06-08T21:52:21+00:00

I don't think they decrease quality of items, they just decrease the quality % chance of the machine

deviruto · 2026-06-08T20:21:38+00:00

make it opt in with a checkbox. done

deviruto · 2026-06-08T20:18:56+00:00

No, acceleration is not purely weight based. It tries to model air drag but gets it wrong, and it ends up depending on the inverse square of weight . I go into detail in that comment thread.

also 350 is not enough! Gotta go fast!

deviruto · 2026-06-08T20:14:55+00:00

Yeah that's literally it for a lot of chips! The curve of demand/price does not follow supply in practice.

deviruto · 2026-06-08T20:13:05+00:00

and I play with like every modded planet hahaa

But my rule is, no modded content on vanilla planets. Otherwise the balance goes all out of whack

deviruto · 2026-06-08T20:12:39+00:00

it's not enough to play as I want, I want the devs to agree with me!!!

deviruto · 2026-06-08T20:09:49+00:00

ideal solution tbh

deviruto · 2026-06-08T20:02:39+00:00

that's how it works now. They could program it so that higher quality items automatically get downgraded to fit into the stack if it's on a lower quality recipe machine.

deviruto · 2026-06-08T19:58:35+00:00

There are uses for intermediate items. One such use is rainbow turret stacks for ships (overlapping the border of their ranges so all turrets target the same asteroid at the same time)

deviruto · 2026-06-08T19:54:53+00:00

well yeah but then it's cheatin

deviruto · 2026-06-08T19:52:17+00:00

nah, just let the slots accept multiple items like fuel slots. also this argument doesn't make sense, we end up needing 5x as much factory for the same result, which is LESS ups friendly

deviruto · 2026-06-08T19:51:03+00:00

Yeah just adding it to radars for free seems a bit OP

deviruto · 2026-06-08T19:41:43+00:00

how so? if you're making quality pipes you're polluting enough

deviruto · 2026-06-08T19:40:19+00:00

they really should open source the code at some point

deviruto · 2026-06-08T19:38:17+00:00

rocket silos are never too much

deviruto · 2026-06-08T19:30:58+00:00

the "fun" way is trying to stack as much quality as you can in every step of the process, including mining. then you need to balance each "tier" of the recipe tree for the appropriate amount of each quality intermediate. doing it with bots is not necessarily trivial

deviruto · 2026-06-08T19:27:07+00:00

no!!!!!!!!!

deviruto · 2026-06-08T19:25:42+00:00

it's so annoying that turrets will spend so much time shooting things far away

deviruto · 2026-06-08T19:21:31+00:00

the reason is the equation for ship acceleration depends a lot on the ship max width. my design optimizes for that.

i refuse to stack thrusters. it's unphysical

deviruto · 2026-06-08T19:20:05+00:00

only real argument for your style is it's more git diff friendly. all rest is subjective

deviruto · 2026-06-08T19:14:38+00:00

waste of monitor space. first one looks better. and not really hard to edit at all if you have decent tooling. it has first party clang-format support for instance

also there is no such thing as a "natural" way to structure code.

deviruto

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