I think you actually want a two handed plant bag. Moving plants is hell otherwise. I don’t think we should limit the plant bag however- it has multiple uses. You can store seeds, produce, and plant data disks in it.
What you’re suggesting is neutering botany in my opinion without a suggestion to make it more fun. Just more tedious.
I like the idea of chef having a tray of their own.
That is a stroke of brilliance. Easy to use for doing the job of moving produce around in bulk, but awkward to use for the purposes of carrying 200 mini-nukes.
Or just make it a bulky item, the main reason why it’s so powerful is because it fits in any inventory.
From my experience playing as and with botanists, it’s undoubtedly the most chill job on the station. It’s a great place for new players and most botanist mains don’t play it for the power gaming options. This should be preserved in any changes. I think your point about limited late game options is really good, and that should certainly be addressed. Maybe have a theme of pacifism for the department, and add some crowd control and stunning options in place of the more lethal chemicals. It would also be nice to remove their dependence on other departments, as botany can slow to a crawl if no one in sci is willing to hand over an inducer. This could easily be achieved by tweaking the capacitive cell mechanics, or simply giving the botany dispenser a replaceable battery since they can already manufacture their own. It would also be nice to tweak the mechanics behind earthsblood, as getting it makes botany an instant cake walk, and removes the water, weed, and pest mechanics all together. Perhaps you could make it simply advance the age of a plant on application, making it still very good, but not have it remove the depth of plant care all together.
False. Only water and weed.
Honestly revert the change to corgium that made it turn you into a corgi instead of making a corgi and make it take like 100u to make one corgi.
I don’t know who the fuck made that change but it is absurd.
I like this idea. Still keep the utility for the cost of a minor inconvenience. Nerf a lot of the goings on with a million plants.
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I feel like Corgium turning you into a corgi is just a joke that Bacon likes to laugh at.
The issue is that mixing DNA from mutated plants got replaced with RNG rolling these reagents instead. Which is my issue.
This would make it hellish to remove 1 seed packet from your bag. And it can still be used for epic grief
You could probably still drag it around botany and take stuff out as normal but if you attempted to grief with it, someone could just shove you or pick the bag up while you drag it around, doesn’t stop you filling your normal backpack with them sadly but progress I guess?
bruh you should be able to use your plants lol, just because we dont want people carrying 1000 holy/nitro nades and instant heals doesn’t mean we don’t want people to be able to use the game mechanics in a creative way
Neutral on the issue but was just pointing out that it only lessens rather than stops at a slight restriction to everyone.
20 is definitely better than hundreds tho, agreed on that.
Sadly was probably the wrong word to use
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Two handed botany bags is excellent
The idea to leave botany chem dispenser boards in service lathe is also great, I like it.
I’ve had players (assistants looking for access from HoPs and HoPs themselves), ask for corgium before. A good nerf might be making it require some arbitrary amount of units such as 50u, so that gaseous decomp. plants don’t bully the station.
Also Adv. Mutation skellie juice is like my bread and butter as services offered to station, next to flight potion. Its cool
You can also turn them into planters for ultimate multi-purpose plant
Also since almost all death plants need DNA modification… Why not make it a tech. And before it is unlocked botanists gotta use grafts from shudders TG botany