Exosuit Fabricators improving resource/time efficiency from just having better research synced
Created by: 9600bauds
Exosuit Fabricators have (unique?) functionality that automatically improves them so that they use less resources and build faster, just from syncing them with better research. Machine upgrades are usually handled by part upgrades, which already need research (and in the case of higher tiers, sometimes rare materials). This really breaks intuition, and I often see players upgrading their fabricator without knowing the effect research has on them. That's not really the issue so much as the benefits from research being much, much bigger than the benefits part upgrades give: Fully upgrading your fab cuts the cost of a robot endoskeleton from 75000 to 69000, whereas maxing Materials research brings it from 75000 to 48000. In the end, the upgrades just work really weird and disassembling your fab to upgrade the parts is simply not worth it. The upgrades should ideally be handled completely by the parts.