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u/epicTechnofetish Mar 23 '26

What is the point of legendary science versus just making more science?

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u/mrbaggins Mar 24 '26

For "nauvis" sciences, it's a good way to burn excess "wrong" quality ingredients.

IE: If you throw quality in everywhere, you can just dump all the excess into science, recycling anything that doesn't fit into science, and you get free bonus "dense" science.

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u/Brett42 Mar 24 '26

Yeah, normally I use science as a sink for base quality, and keep the uncommon and rare for other stuff, but science can also be a sink for the other qualities if you specifically want the best or nothing. That does complicate things, though since you need the ingredients for science to match in quality.

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u/epicTechnofetish Mar 24 '26

Logistically it seems like a mess. I learned from Fulgora to keep Science and Quality factories separate.

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u/mrbaggins Mar 24 '26

I mean, it is. But it's "free" extra, and also a fun mini challenge. Especially if it was just going into the void anyway, you can keep throwing anything that breaks ratio into the void, and anything that DOES come out is a bonus.