[ BUG ] Researching patents pulls QL of prerequisites patent

[Rockinsince87]

EDIT: This has been identified as a bug. Please skip the below original post, I thought it was a normal function and was suggesting something to be done to improve the quality of life in the game. 



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Ok so first off I apologies if this was already posted. I tired to find something like this and I could not. 


So I was thinking about the research of patients and I really like the mechanic of progressing to unlock higher items like as an example from Metal to Magmium then to Vulcium. 


What confused me a bit was improving on the designs when finding higher QL materials. Having to re-research to unlock improvements makes sense. What does not is having to go all the way back though the whole chain. Like if I wanted to make an improved grav drive module, why do I have first improve my chemicals rockets? That's like going back to the first patent of the telephone and having to improve that to make the latest cell phone. You don't have to do that for mining right now and that makes sense. 

I'm suggesting that once you unlock the technology it should not be as hard to improve on it. 

Thoughts?

[Deantwo]

A patent does not limit the quality of another patent.
You can get a higher quality warp9 patent than your warp1 patent is.
So what you are explaining doesn't seem to be an issue at all.

[Rockinsince87]

Ok so Markonn helped me figure it out. 

So the issue is only when researching patents. Normal manufacturing needs to fetch the QL of the patent so it knows what the final product is or what the limit is. 

While researching patents fetches the QL of the required patent in this case the magmium as seen above. Once I lowered the Q limit below the magmium patent, the vulcium patent 

See this pic, all I did was lower the Q limit for the patent

[With your approval, can you move this to the bug section and rename the subject?]

[Deantwo]

A patent does not limit the quality of another patent.
You can get a higher quality warp9 patent than your warp1 patent is.
So what you are explaining doesn't seem to be an issue at all.

Are you sure? Because that's what I am seeing. Check it out.

[x]

There is no "Q" next to the key, that means the requirement doesn't affect quality of the product.

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So the issue is only when researching patents. Normal manufacturing needs to fetch the QL of the patent so it knows what the final product is or what the limit is. 

While researching patents fetches the QL of the required patent in this case the magmium as seen above. Once I lowered the Q limit below the magmium patent, the vulcium patent 

See this pic, all I did was lower the Q limit for the patent

[With your approval, can you move this to the bug section and rename the subject?]

You might be right there yeah. It doesn't fetch the patent if it is lower quality than the manufacturing line's minimum quality.

That would probably be a bug yeah.

Wonder if it also prevents fetching other tools that are below the minimum quality setting. For example hammers. That would be horrible.

[Rockinsince87]