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Quality Expanded

Provides various configurable options for increasing the impact of quality. Quality Framework and XML Extensions are recommended to unlock the full features of this mod.

Quality affects max hit points.

Buildings and items can permanently deteriorate in quality if their current hit points falls below the max hit points for the next-lowest quality. Buildings and armor check for quality loss when damaged. Other items check for quality loss once per day. Buildings and items with art have a lower chance to deteriorate and will only deteriorate if they fall below good level hit points.

You can see the deterioration at work on map spawn, as some of the spawned buildings might deteriorate to poor or awful quality.

Quality can be configured to affect:

• Research Speed
  
• Work Table Speed
  
• Door Open Speed
  
• Power Output, Power Usage, and Battery Efficiency
  
• Ranged Weapon & Turret Cooldown
  
• Melee Weapon Cooldown
  
• Medicine Potency

The following vanilla quality effects can now be disabled:

• Beauty
  
• Bed Rest Effectiveness
  
• Comfort
  
• Deterioration Rate (disabled by default) - It is recommended to disable this when using Quality Hit Points. Otherwise high-quality items will have higher HP in addition to losing HP slower, extending their lifespan well beyond that of vanilla.

Quality Framework - Adds quality to buildings, stuff, weapons, apparel, and other items (configurable) to make full use of this mod.

XML Extensions - Allows configuration of the quality factors for various stats. Also increases compatiblity with other mods.

Should be compatible with just about anything, including mods with similar features. In order to ensure the configuration options of this mod take precedence, this mod should be loaded after mods with similar features.

For example, when using Quality Doors, this mod will control the hit points and door speed effects of quality, while Quality Doors will continue to make doors minifiable.

How does quality deterioration work?
Assume a normal building with 300 hit points and a .75 poor factor, so a poor building would have 225 hit points. The building takes 10 damage, falling to 290 hit points. Since 290 is still above 225, nothing happens. If the building gets damaged to 220 hit points, there is a one time check with a 13.3% of deterioration. If it is damaged again to 210 hit points, there will be another check with a 15% chance. The actual formula is (1 - current hp / current max hp) / 2.

How does this affect performance?
The performance impact should be minimal. A test with a full colony mining didn't get higher than .038ms with performance analyzer. A full-scale combat with lots of damage to buildings might get a bit higher, but this mod should still qualify as performance light. This mod also uses conditional harmony and def database patches to ensure disabled features have zero performance impact. As a result, a restart is required for many settings changes.

Can I add this to an existing game?
Yes.

Can I remove this from an existing save?
Probably, but you will get an error on the first load.

How do the cooldown features of this differ from Quality Cooldown?

Quality Cooldown only:
• Factors are not adjustable
  
• Cooldown is also affected by remaining HP
  
• Only applies to ranged weapons, not turrets.
  
  Quality Expanded only:
  
• Factors are adjustable, uses same factors as Quality Cooldown by default.
  
• No adjustment based on HP (but quality can be configured to degrade when HP is lost).
  
• Applies to both ranged weapons and turrets.
  
  Both
  
• Factors are adjustable
  
• HP affects cooldown (and configurable deterioration).
  
• Quality affects ranged weapons and turret, HP cooldown factor only affects ranged weapons.

Does this work with <ModName>:

I don't know. This mod should be compatible with the bulk of other mods, but if you run into any problems please let me know.

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