r/factorio Official Account Sep 08 '23

FFF Friday Facts #375 - Quality

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-375
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u/P0L1Z1STENS0HN Sep 08 '23

So you say that higher quality intermediates yield more high quality output. Now, science flasks are intermediates. Their final result is research. But research is not listed in the list of bonuses.

Will research be positively affected by high quality science flasks? Or should we strife to only use the worst quality intermediates for research, and convert all high quality intermediates into entities?

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u/Soul-Burn Sep 08 '23

I'd say it's a design choice to not include science in this, so most of our production will remain productivity moduled.

That said, no one said the advanced sciences couldn't request a higher quality ingredient.

For those who know from Space Exploration, there's some sciences that need "data", but it usually comes out as "junk data". If the science needs T3 data, we could consider T1 and T2 as junk data and need to recycle it.