Bug in product customization?

[kg79]

When I understand the concept correctly then product quality is always calculated with regarding the top technology available. So if the top technology raises the product quality should go down if you don't have the same level. But if you are producing a customized product the product quality is not re-calculated when the top tech level raises, it stays forever an the level it had as you started the production. I think this is a bug, the quality should fall in the moment the top technology level goes up, not only for the units in production, but also for the units in storage and in retail. But it stays the same.

Only if you set up a new manufactoring unit to the same level you have set up and costomized before the top tech level raised, then it is recalculated correctly and gets a lower quality. This behaviour would also impact AI when product customization is enabled for them, because in this way the AI could research a high level and never change the production, while the quality stays at a high level forever, with no need to do R&D.

I have tried this with manufacuring several CPUs with original quality levels of 20 and 30. Then I researched a level above 100 and the product quality stayed at about 20 and 30, as the tech-level of production is calculated with 95% in this example.

[David]

I have tested it and it functioned properly.

I think this is a bug, the quality should fall in the moment the top technology level goes up, not only for the units in production, but also for the units in storage and in retail. But it stays the same.

Actually, a product that utilizes that top technology level must be on sale in the market in order to affect other products.

If you have just researched the technology without launching a product that utilizes the highest tech level, then it will have no effect on existing products in the market because consumers are not aware of such new technology and therefore their perceptions of quality on existing products won't change.

[kg79]

Okay, then it's obvious why I had this issue with CPU's as they have no retail dales as semi products. I think this also should work that way on semi prodcucts to get more comeptition there. Perhaps the trigger should be the first sales unit in the production chain and not the retail market, so the effect would affect all product groups, and of course the oversea products in the seaports, as they also are a part of the competition.

[anjali]

Okay, then it's obvious why I had this issue with CPU's as they have no retail dales as semi products. I think this also should work that way on semi prodcucts to get more comeptition there. Perhaps the trigger should be the first sales unit in the production chain and not the retail market, so the effect would affect all product groups, and of course the oversea products in the seaports, as they also are a part of the competition.

once you produce the cpu in your factory wwith the new top tech >100 it will drop the quality of the current produced cpu's that are produced with a lower tech, not sure if it has to be 4sale in the factory, as i always have the cpu 4sale (internal) to buy it with another factory to produce whatever you need cpu for. but the moment someone upgrades its factories to the new highest tech and the AI usually has the semi product 4sale as well, the quality of my semi product is dropping. so its not about retail store only, 4sale is 4sale i guess, no matter if factory, warehouse or retail.

[kg79]

It seems that the quality of cusomized manifacturing units does not drop automaticly when you set up another unit > 100 in tech. This only happens when you set up the old manufacturing unit once again. If you do not reconfigure your costomized units, the quality stays the same. This is the point I try to investigate, as I think it should automaticly drop.