quality in production buildings

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 06.05.2007, 09:25

this was the first time i had to use the quality limit in my factory and i was surprised by the way it works

you set the limit for the technology, not for the final product

example: i used minerals q0 to produce chemicals q1, but i had to set the quality to 3 in order to produce q1 chemicals

but i expected that if i set it to q1 i would produce q1 product

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 06.05.2007, 14:15

Yeah, it's a little non-intuitive. I wonder if it was created that way as a holdover from a previous version where things worked a bit differently.

What that "production quality" actually does is give you a way to limit your product research. So if you were using q3 minerals, you could set that factory value to 0 and still make q1 chemicals. Follow?

I think what most people do is just set it to 127 (the max) and leave it like that. This way your max research will be used every time, and it doesn't cost anything extra to have this number unnecessarily high. The only exception is if you need to limit it, say for a contest. In order to make q2 wool for the contest I had to bring each cattle plant down to 6 and restrict myself.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 06.05.2007, 15:50

The production cost is higher for higher Q goods so you might pay a little extra if you put quality 127 in vain.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 06.05.2007, 19:03

Bacon wrote:The production cost is higher for higher Q goods so you might pay a little extra if you put quality 127 in vain.

you only pay for the quality you produce, not the quality that you set thare and can't really produce

Knolls wrote:What that "production quality" actually does is give you a way to limit your product research. So if you were using q3 minerals, you could set that factory value to 0 and still make q1 chemicals. Follow?

yes, i realized that, but the problem is, that if i use different quality materials, i have to adjust the quality in the factory to get the right quality output

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 06.05.2007, 19:10

its actually strange i gotta set da quality of my oil to 6 to make Q3 oil i think this has to be changed

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 10.05.2007, 16:31

Drvic enterprises wrote:
Bacon wrote:The production cost is higher for higher Q goods so you might pay a little extra if you put quality 127 in vain.
you only pay for the quality you produce, not the quality that you set thare and can't really produce

actually ... if ur creating steel, and have Q5 coal, and Q4 research ... you pay .80c per piece of steel which is not being created into Q2 steel. therefore, leaving the research at 127 loses you money ... a little at a time, but still loses some money over time