Eliminate bulk storage QL tax

[Ostentatio 1,970]

Many players might not know this, but when bulk storage (bins, crates, etc.) average the QL of items, they essentially "tax" you a certain amount of QL, gravitating toward the lower end of the average. For example, let's say you put two iron lumps in a crate, one at 10QL and one at 80QL. You would expect the crate to then contain two iron lumps at 45QL, but in practice it's closer to 40QL.

 

Basically, it seems to treat the QL difference as 10% greater if putting in a lower QL item, or 10% lower if putting in a higher QL item. Either way, it intentionally results in a lower QL than the actual average.

 

This results in situations where, if I have a pile of clay with an average QL of 75, and I throw it directly into a crate, the crate might then contain 72QL clay instead. I can bypass this by combining the clay into large chunks of approximately 75QL, but it's a bit of a pain.

 

This "quality tax" appears to be some sort of holdover from when bulk storage was first introduced, but I find it hard to see what purpose it currently serves.

[boilingfort 147]

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[Dame 144]

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[Calio 6]

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[Xor 684]

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[Wiolo 219]

Hey lets not forget about this. +1

[Jaz 2,665]

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[Griffith 362]

On 8/13/2018 at 10:29 AM, Ostentatio said:

This "quality tax" appears to be some sort of holdover from when bulk storage was first introduced, but I find it hard to see what purpose it currently serves.

 

if my memory serves me right, used to be you could put certain items in bsbs and average ql would actually increase, so maybe this was the fix for that.

[Roccandil 959]

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