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I started a second space age play thru. I felt it was a little fast so I upped research 5x. I also decided to embrace quality, as I barely touched it in play thru #1.

It's expensive. Let's just assume 10% quality. If you have 10% to get uncommon, then you have to make 10 to get 1. If you recycle the other 9, then you get 25% back and 10% of that can be quality. So you get roughly 2 normal back and 0.2 uncommon.

If you make 50, you get 5 on first run. On recycle, you get 1 uncommon and 10 normal back. So you can count those as -10 on the initial cost. Net result is 6 uncommon cost 40 normal.

Am I doing that math right?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

From FFF-375 kovarex says:

With this straightforward approach, if you want to produce items of legendary quality, and you already have enough legendary quality 3 modules (which is not an easy thing to get in the first place), the legendary items are 56 times more expensive than normal items

So yeah, quality is quite expensive, and it's definitely a trap trying to go for epic/legendary for many items.

Honestly, the most important thing to actually make legendary is quality/prod modules. So you can make space ships that harvest astroids, and reprocessing them into legendary astroid.

And that way you have pretty much trivialized getting legendary ores!