Confirm that defaults.xml "product" element cannot accept a "method" attribute?

[Duncaroos]

Snip from v7.5 defaults.xml

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1000:           <dataset class="processingmodule">
1001-1003:         ...
1004:                 <properties>
1005-1007:               ...
1008:                    <product ware="scrapmetal" amount="150" />

As I am trying to play around with the processing module. I understand in the 'proc_gen_scrapworks_macro.xml' file for the processing module, that there is no 'production' element added in the macro's properties; instead, the defaults.xml file provides information to the game to, unless defined otherwise, produce 150x the scrap metal recipe (Every 60s: 10 ECell + 1 Raw Scrap = 1 Scrap Metal).

I tried to see if I could change line 1008 of defaults.xml to:

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<product ware="scrapmetal" method="Duncaroo" amount="150" />

..and updated wares.xml to add the "Duncaroo" method (Every 60s: 100 ECell + 10 Raw Scrap = 1 Scrap Metal):

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<production time="60" amount="1" method="Duncaroo" name="{20206,1301}" tags="noplayerbuild recycling">
   <primary>
       <ware ware="energycells" amount="100" />
       <ware ware="rawscrap" amount="10" />
   </primary>
</production>

After packaging and publishing my mod to my game folder, I was hoping to see 150x(3600/60)*1 = 9,000 Scrap Metal/hr, 90,000 Raw Scrap/hr, and 900,000 ECell/hr. This did not happen, so I suspect that the defaults.xml file cannot provide details regarding the 'method'.

Questions are:
1) Can anyone else confirm that defaults.xml cannot be used to assign a different production method for SAY scrap metal?
2) If making a 'custom' scrap processor (for say 10x efficiency or something), and to not break the original processing module - will the 'proc_gen_scrapworks_macro.xml' accept production element details to specify the output ware & method? Just want to save myself the time of creating a mod to test (to see if others tried this already).

Other findings I found:
- Only 1x 'product' element can be in a class (i.e., you cannot assign multiple products like you can using the 'queue' sub-element under a 'production' element like the recycler).

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[Duncaroos]

Also, out of plain curiosity:

Was there a development reason why defaults.xml was used in this way for specifying a recipe to 'proc_gen_scrapworks_macro.xml', rather than just:

a) Having the scrapmetal ware under wares.xml simply provide the recipe like:

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<production time="60" amount="150" method="processing" name="{20206,1301}" tags="noplayerbuild recycling">
   <primary>
       <ware ware="energycells" amount="1500" />
       <ware ware="rawscrap" amount="150" />
   </primary>
</production>

and b) the 'proc_gen_scrapworks_macro.xml' macro to specify:

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<production wares="scrapmetal">
        <queue ware="scrapmetal" method="processing" />
</production>

?

[BurnIt!]

In a nutshell:
- defaults.xml does not support the method attribute for class processingmodule
- we didn't add the full support for the macro because it wasn't needed, the defaults.xml entry was good enough

We've seen this as a request to add that support and it'll be added to the list, but please understand that this does not currently have a high priority while work on 8.00 continues.