"Feature Points" Limit Based Schematic + Schematic Feature Research (with parts as consumed/destroyed for research)

[EternalDreamer]

One way to improve upon the schematic system is to switch the cost for schematics from pure quanta to T1 schematic quanta price + part-specific-research tokens to increase feature points cap on the schematic.

 

• T1 - 1000 feature point cap
• T2 - 2000 feature point cap
• T3 - 3000 feature point cap
• etc...

 

Spend item specific research tokens to do stuff like the following

• Increase feature point cap
  • 10^(2 + number of previous cap increases)  Medium wings to increase point cap
• Produce faster
  • 100 S-cores for making s-cores 5% faster (100 feature points per stack, limit 5)
• Increase size of item (Not everything but some of them maybe?)
  • 100 xs-wings to make S-wing schematic (500 feature points for S-size, 1000 feature points for M size, 1500 for L-size)
• Produce with less materials (200 feature points per stack)
  • 100 Container M to produce them with 5% reduced materials
• Improve aspects of the actual item produced (T50, power, weight, durability, brightness)
  • 100 Large Atmo engines to decrease the warmup time by 5%

 

You can fiddle around with numbers a bit but this would be a general idea.

 

What does everyone think?

[Taelessael]

Some degree of research game-play would be a nice addition, and making the researched prints both reliably creatable, and having limited uses would help to ensure people aren't just collecting the best and then having nothing to do afterward.