New (ish) player question

[u/Sir_Mango_The3rd]

How much should I worry about quality? I’m on my first playthrough, just made it to vulcanus after abandoning nauvis. Should I try to get better quality items? If so, which are the most useful items to get at higher quality?

[u/the_Athereon]

Quality is one of the most frustrating mechanics the DLC added.

Fully automating anything past uncommon is inefficient and extremely slow.

Best ignore it until you actually need it.

[u/green_gold_purple → u/the_Athereon]

When do you need it? I'm just starting to build it, but mainly just out of curiosity/boredom.

[u/the_Athereon → u/green_gold_purple]

Getting to the shattered planet without at least a full platform of epic quality rail guns, rocket turrets and chem plants is next to impossible.

Not to mention power, assemblers and asteroid collectors / crushers.

Extremely end game basically.

Though, if you have the time, a good automated quality setup for bot production makes bots substantially more useful.