Goonhub
05-23-2021, 04:24 PM
It'd just be another option - if QM was well off, it'd make more sense to buy the thing than build it, like many other mechscannable pieces of equipment. If QM isn't well off, but mining has gotten resources, then it might make more sense to build them from mechanics than order them from QM.
I'm not even suoer-tied to the idea of it requiring rare materials - if it was more a choice between "spend money on collectors" or "spend money on resources / use existing resources and some time to construct them with a bit of teamwork", that also seems reasonable to me.
Overall, I think it'd make optimizing singularity power through the teamwork of the engineering dept, something that already kind of exists(singularity feeder mechanics setups, using qm to order more parts), even more developed.
I'm not even suoer-tied to the idea of it requiring rare materials - if it was more a choice between "spend money on collectors" or "spend money on resources / use existing resources and some time to construct them with a bit of teamwork", that also seems reasonable to me.
Overall, I think it'd make optimizing singularity power through the teamwork of the engineering dept, something that already kind of exists(singularity feeder mechanics setups, using qm to order more parts), even more developed.