Topic on Talk:Sterile tile

Refering to https://rimworldwiki.com/index.php?title=Sterile_tile&diff=next&oldid=120903 . Pre-emptive discussion post.

Many of these sentences are complete run ons. For example:

> (Gold/silver tile) "is technically the "ideal" flooring for the kitchen (setting aside Style bonuses from other floors) as, as mentioned above, kitchens only need to be above -2.0 cleanliness, and the immense beauty is great for someone who sits next to it all day long, but this is an absurd waste of resources."

This is a ton of information for one sentence. The usefulness of this statement is questionable. Because we know gold tile has the highest stats, a reader can assume that it is the best flooring when cost does not matter (for all non-hospital or research rooms).

> "Cleanliness will also increase room impressiveness, however, sterile tiles also negatively impact beauty, which decreases impressiveness (not to mention also impacting the beauty need!), which makes sterile tiles a very inefficient method for increasing impressiveness."

The first sentence can be shorted into:

> "Cleanliness also increases room impressiveness, but the beauty malus makes this very inefficient for doing so.

• "however, sterile tiles also negatively impact beauty, which decreases impressiveness" -> "but the beauty malus"
• "which makes sterile tiles a very inefficient method for increasing impressiveness" -> "makes this very inefficient for doing so." (No redundancy with Impressivness)
• "(not to mention also impacting the beauty need!)" removed. It simply is too much information to state this fact. Plus, the tone is poor - exclamations sound unprofessional, along with "not to mention" in parenthesis.

> "If your only goal is to increase the impressiveness of a room, you should instead use steel tiles, which provide a lesser cleanliness benefit but do not impact beauty; carpets, which provide a substantial amount of beauty, but no cleanliness boost (and, in fact, take substantially longer to clean); or Stone tiles, which provide less beauty than carpets and do not provide a cleanliness boost, but take far less time to clean. Even the humble Wood floor can be preferable for impressiveness, so long as you keep it clean. Sculptures are also vastly more resource efficient at increasing impressiveness than sterile tiles are, providing a 1:1 steel to beauty ratio for a normal-quality sculpture. In short, don't use sterile tiles for impressiveness alone, only use them when the cleanliness itself is important."

Into: "If your only goal is to increase Impressiveness, then steel tiles don't penalize beauty and still boost cleanliness. When combined with sculptures, steel tile, carpet, or even concrete are more cost effective."

• Sterile tile are bad for impressiveness, so this implies that other tiles are better for the reasons why sterile tiles are bad. We can just skim over the rest - we don't need to explain the difference between (Stone Tile vs Carpet) in such detail. A simple list of "better floors" will suffice.
• Combine sculptures into the list of floors. Sterile tile has more wealth, so it will be more impressive without sculptures.
• Cost efficient, not resource efficient. Work, work + work of material, wealth, and raw materials are all important and all covered by the word "cost".