Hello Engineers! I could use some of your maths loving brains please 😊 

I’ve been playing with mod ideas for alternative Quality logic. For example, what might it look like to have a Kovarex type mechanic for quality? 

Then I wondered how might that domino effect throughout the recipes. 

Like would it literally need each item to have its own process? Maybe each next level of quality has to keep processing until it spits out the next quality “shiny” item? (see attached image for a rudimentary concept, [original image source](https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/1oof9wm/comment/nn3pdh1/))

Or maybe an alternative? Like this is just the process to create a single use quality module that makes exactly that quality. Sort of like a ticket based prize system at an arcade. 

I don’t know. I just enjoy theory crafting and the concept of revamping the quality system feels like a fun puzzle to consider. It's all subjective but when I consider this, these are the things I'm keeping in mind. On one hand the puzzle should serve a purpose, encourage the player to experiment, and let the player feel clever. On the other, it shouldn't feel like some annoying chore the player would rather not think about. 

(bit of a tangent) For a while I just considered the vanilla Quality mechanics to be a "set and forget" grid of parameterized blueprints on Vulcanus. It was easier if I just never remembered it existed and come back to hope a bunch of legendaries were finished. To make it a little more interesting for myself I added some circuitry to show scoreboards out of display panels and hooked up some lights to give a more jackpot feel. 

I’m sick of all the bickering about what the devs are doing to their game. 

If *Wube* wants to go the route of the *Fun Pimps* with *7DTD* then I guess that's what they want. I can't know what their vision is, but it's obvious to me that they don't want to touch the intricacies of Quality at this point. (The [FFF #442](https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-442#Quality%20updates:~:text=a%20worthy%20foe.-,Quality%20updates,-Klonan) basically said "We don't like one method of handling non-planet specific Quality, so we're removing it. We're also making it so you can turn the whole Quality mod off, if you don't like it." Sort of like a "I'm taking my ball and going home" fix.) So unless they say they're open to alternative ideas, then that's what modding is for I suppose. 

Its valid to feel through those negative emotions from losing the original Space Casino. I encourage you to process those feelings, hell I'm not happy about it either. Right now, I’d much rather hear some creative ideas that would make the Quality portion of the game feel more fun for different sorts of players! Do you have any ideas in mind? Whether it's highly technical nerdery or just fun flavor text, I'd love to hear them if you're up for sharing!

If you could recreate the Quality Mod, how would you do it? (Rule 4 please)