High Quality Management Functions! (Daydream...fair TL:DR potential)

[Maxcrafter]

Dear Square,

With the removal of HQ harvestables, it becomes desirable, in my mind, to expand the idea in the direction of symmetricity. If xyz HQ are not used so much here.. how about not so much over there, too? Reason for this line of thought is pretty much in our collective face - managing the HQ stuff outside top gear/consumables isn't worth the time or effort. Basically, HQ salt is easier to throw out than it is to convert to NQ salt. Yada.

One idea is a new tool set.. HQM tools. (HQM = High Quality Management).
Basic tenet of HQM is unlikely to be new, but maybe nowadays more worthy of discussion - to wit:
During this login session, anything up to about 5 or so HQM activities that the player executed can be undone - IF nothing has changed to prevent such. So.. like this: If you change a dozen HQ widgets to NQ widgets, the NQ widgets can be put back "whole" again - HQ again... IF you didn't eat them. So.. "undo whatcha did" is foundational to the HQM tool set.. it grants a certain amount of protection to those among us who butcher a dozen HQ Eblan Danburite down to NQ via HQM tools, and then really, really, regret it.

The tools themselves are conceptually trivial; find and convert all the HQ sprockets to NQ sprockets. Find all the HQ anythings and convert them all to NQ anythings. Restack option for this, ofc.. the whole idea is to reduce massive clickiness to minimal. It does little good to reduce all the HQ fussdoodles to NQ, and then leave the newly created stack as an HQM orphan. OMG restack the puppies!

Moving along then, Crafting varieties of course.. "This session, convert all HQ product to NQ automatically." or.. "This session, produce NO HQ, period.."

MB varieties.. Easy.. Seller's HQ stack sold as always.. but the game will happily convert the stack to NQ at sale time, if the buyer selects that (new) MB option. Btw, this one would not be undoable.

Player trading.. There might be something here, but it sounds scary.

Maybe none of this makes sense, or is just too tricky to fuss with, but I'd definitely pay a few bucks to never have to deal with that stack of 3 HQ cornbread again.

Shooter