
For most of the trading stations in Manufacture mode you just feed the inputs of the previous one at the same rate and mostly in the same form (1 layer all quarters of the previous trading shape). If the inputs were at the different ratios to the outputs, this would incentivize player to use alternate trading stations and operator shape byproducts. For example trading platform A outputs 2 quarters of the shape, but platform B wants, for example 5 quarters in its input shape, or spread out through multiple different input shapes (like the last station), So each trading tier requies a different ratio of previous trading tier shapes, not just mostly 1:1. Currently only two trading stations do that, but they just drop that ratio by 2 so you just have twice as less next tier trading stations