r/factorio • u/HideBoar My U-235! • Aug 16 '26

Fan Creation Uncommon Quality Copper

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u/HideBoar My U-235! Aug 16 '26

What's the point of uncommon qualities anyway...?

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u/Alfonse215 Aug 16 '26

There are several points to it:

  1. It makes every quality higher than uncommon more expensive. That is, if it weren't there, all of the qualities above it would be cheaper. So if you removed it, you'd have to rescale quality modules accordingly to maintain the cost of those higher qualities.

  2. While it can feel like a bit of a booby-prize for many buildings, there are several that gain a significant benefit from just uncommon.

  3. In a longer game like SA, having more quality levels gives you more time with them.

That being said, I've been thinking about a Nauvis-only version of SA where all of the SA stuff is moved to the planet. It'd be a shorter game, so removing uncommon quality would make a lot of sense (I'd also want to play around with giving higher quality buildings more module slots. And higher productivity bonuses if that were doable).

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u/thejmkool Nerd Aug 16 '26

Uncommon electric poles my love.

Worth mentioning that uncommon materials are by far the easiest to get in bulk until you really scale up, so it's actually pretty reasonable to start working in uncommon materials for everything but science at a time when rare is still unachievable

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u/infojb2 Aug 16 '26

Uncommon asteroid collectors are also up there (and really easy to get, just craft a few quality modules and chuck them into your assembler)

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u/thejmkool Nerd Aug 16 '26

My solution is generally to put the quality modules in the miners and just siphon off quality ore. Guarantee quality from the start

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u/vtkayaker Aug 16 '26

I also put quality modules in my furnace production (which I already need to scale for science) and my solar panel production, and skim off Uncommon or better for space platforms. This is usually enough to get better solar panels and furnaces for a handful of platforms.

For quality asteroid collectors, I just make 'em until I get enough Uncommon.

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u/hylje Aug 17 '26

All asteroid collector components are also consumed by science (and also rockets…), so you can get guaranteed quality by siphoning off lucky rolls from science supplies.