(Request) Balance Update(s) / Changes

[Sn1p3rr3c0n]

We should have a deeper look at the Balance of the mod and its individual components.
There are some very underpowered buildings such as the Fish Farms and then
there are the more OP Things such as the Drills and Godlike SAL

In general people (including myself) tend to rush the higher tier buildings and skipp the things in the middle.
The trader is another Issue as it sells items for way too cheap.

What should be

• Incentive to use all the buildings
• Climb up in the automation Tree
• "Balance" (this is subjective)

Things to consider

• In what kind of scenario / compared to what do we want to be balanced
• Depending on the context the relevance of the points listed in "With what" change
• unbalanced mode... (might be the cause for some of the issues)

With what

• Techprints (seems to be a bit controversial but overall more users are for it then against (ATM))
• Price - Both Silver an Recourses
• Availability of Bills ?
• Power consumption ?
• Research ?

How to "Measure" the Balance

• Statistics ?
• Wealth / Time ?
• (rare item) / Time ?
• Feel ?

There are a lot of open points for me on this.
I am not really sure on how to best address all those points, and i am sure that there are more to consider

[Sn1p3rr3c0n]

Notes

Not sure if it is bug or intended, but metal refinery can be bought from orbital trader but can't do anything without according research.
(ignis Steam)

to be considered for balance

[Sn1p3rr3c0n]

Add SAL for research or rebalance them. they feel too weak (godlike untested atm)

[Sn1p3rr3c0n]

Leaving some notes here:

Blast furnace
maybe low tier extract mineral / ore from stone? (low amount & medium Chance )

How to get components early (Mason & Industrial cooker) ?

Mines just spam rocks ... What can we do here?
-> More Chance
-> & Chance fore nothing
--> Can wie have for the T = skill effect stuff (to a degree)
--> Maybe prefer machines still???

Drills
Nerf Modded stuff

anything over 10 silver / Item --> rare (unbalanced mode ...)
maybe we need to change / remove the unbalanced mode by allowing the rare stuff but in a more balanced way
produce 23 (that's the value of 40 steel) / Item value per bill (round up) implemented in a4c42ee

The Auger Drill is weaker then a T0 ....

RNG Drill compare (~2 Auger refills)

Should there be a flow of Small medium ... frames to get them automatically ?
maybe ? --> ( Industrial furnace must require Small frame)

QOL recipe
Most (if not all) buildings use 2 robotic arms maybe add recipe for 2 of them at slightly faster speed

Plasteel refin is overpriced
VFE:M for reference requires 20 steel 20 chem and 5 stone blocks
We require 20 steel and 100 chem
--> stone is basically worth nothing
chem is harder to get (depending on mods & settings)
maybe reduce chem to 40 as a first step and make it faster
b80f7d3 reduced the cost

[Sn1p3rr3c0n]

there should be a slow but high skill SAL
The Goodlike SAL probably need to be moved to Insanity

[Sn1p3rr3c0n]

6e162bc Added a Initial set of techprints.
Testing and tuning is most certainly required.

I also need to look into the practical effects of:
techprintCommonality & techprintMarketValue

[Sn1p3rr3c0n]

There currently seems to be no way to gain Robotic Arm's in an automated way.
As far as i can Tell the only ways to get them is via Pawns Crafting or getting a Trader

How could / should we resolve that?
maybe add a SAL to the scenario? -> That's Probelatic `Robotic Arm' bill requires Crafting 8 basic SAL is 5

[Sn1p3rr3c0n]

We might need to rebalance the SAL Skills
there are big Jumps in the Skill department Preventing a lot of use cases
maybe additional models?

[Sn1p3rr3c0n]

Documenting idea by .d

I feel like a start would be only producing the materials from the ground scanner