4. Now you can edit basic information, because the plant data is now stored in the plant research system.
Left top: basic stats no longer changable. The stats are fixated now for some reason.
Left bottom: You can adjust the chemical size at your wish upto the maximum.
I’m interested to see where this is going. If it helps with preventing deathnettle powergaming, Im all for it. What’s important is that this has to result in an interesting workloop for botany, an enviroment that discourages le killer tomato and encourages growing interesting plants or actually doing the fuckin bounties.
Excelled QoL changes but the stat thing worries me. I’m not partial to an endless deluge of giant plants myself but speed not being changable is the kicker, as (and I’ve said this before in your last post for this) any job that just waits for ages instead of doing anything is shit.
Also, doesn’t potency affect chemical amount? We’d kinda need to control it for precision then.
Overall…it looks really cool! Here’s my advice for this iteration:
Instead of plant stats being unable to be edited, introduce a stat cap. Each plant has base stats and capped stats. Now, some plant could get a max yield cap. Some plant could get a max potency cap. None of them could get both. (I assume you were doing this anyway with base stats). However, the important part is that no plant should have a speed cap.
This does leave the important question of how you’d even change the stats. Maybe use the biogenerator’s biomass? Make it able to print unique chems that change stats instead of the old chem dispenser stuff we had? Would give a use to biogen for actual botany business for once.
Anyway that’s what I got. Looking forward to the next post.
deathnettle nerf
Good. Delete explosive lemons while you’re there.
However it’s worth noting that botany would be that much cooler if it could output good weapons eventually. Mutating and maxing one plant for really good weapons is cringe…Working hard for it, presumably once a threat arises, is not. Consider moving acids to harder to get plants or even making an acid recipe that requires several mutations/harvests to assemble from its component chems.
Probably been mentioned already but mutated plants at least have always been scannable for research points, with I think Omega weed being like 777 points
Being completely unable to change them is absolute fucking lunacy and you literally just made three chemicals and an entire item worthless as a result.
unless I find a better design to change stats not through chems, I don’t want to keep the chem changing stats like that. You can literally make 100 potency always with no limit, and I don’t like TG botany’s way to increase potency and stats. This is the real lunacy.
I mean, I have no idea of a good design for stat changes, and the current design is way worse.
Potency no longer involves the output because you will always get 100 potency for every plant. You will get a flat chem output based on the chem adjustment. In the case of Ambrosia Vulgaris in the image, you can get:
3u nutriment
2u vitamin
5u Toxin
5u Bicaridine
5u Kelotane
5u Space Drug
and they can be maximized to the max value written next to their value.
so, yes, the plant will be less needed to have 100 potency before unless you’re going to use the plant’s traits or something else.
Sorry, didn’t mean this to come out as a criticism. More like, "well, with these changes, maybe removing Potency would not be needed? Which would mean no more botany chem machine cos the “drown the plants in good chems” thing isn’t that great.
My suggestion would be to fix the Botany gun. Maybe do the viro extrapolator thing on it, so it increases it’s power/reliability by upgrading it inste4ad of being locked behind research Science don’t care about.
I am sorry, but still no. and I am 100% sure botany will be still powerful with this change. even if stats are not changeable, they still can get bunch of bullshits.
but don’t worry about the idea right being merged. It will be testmerged and we’ll find it out about stat change, but my current idea is to remove the stat change.
