Module talk:AlternateRecipesTable

Questionable Accuracy of Prerequisites
Pure Caterium Ingot is listed here with Oil Processing as a prerequisite, but I unlocked it in an unmodded game while still in Tier 3/4. Most likely, the actual prerequisite is Coal Power, similar to the Pure Iron and Copper Ingot alternate recipes.

There are a number of other alternate recipes whose listed prerequisites I now consider suspect. For example, Diluted Packaged Fuel lists Oil Processing as a prerequisite, but I think Alternative Fluid Transport is more likely. Electric Motor lists Aeronautical Engineering as a prereq but Nuclear Power is more likely. Several alt recipes list Quartz Crystals as a prereq although Crystal Oscillator is more likely. Unfortunately I don't know how to confirm or refute my suspicions, except by trial and error.

How were these prerequisites found, before they were loaded into the database? Do we know (or assume) that each alternate recipe has exactly those prerequisites that will unlock all of its ingredients and products? If so, then the database should be updated as noted above, and similarly for other alt recipes. Or, if the prerequisites were extracted from game data somehow, they should be re-extracted and reviewed since the Pure Caterium Ingot recipe's prereqs were found to be in error.

Syskill (talk) 20:05, 12 April 2022 (UTC)