Last year Synthflesh used to be a scourge… and I’m not exactly innocent in that regard.
I would either build a factory during rotations or just make one if no chemists showed up to carry medical for that day
When 90% of the damage coming through the door is brute/burn and you have a 1 click solution that’s readily available and easy to make. why would you not use it?
Even after the 120OD it was still readily used. safe use was still 3 [39u] patches because they couldn’t lower it below unhusk, or didn’t want lower to either OD or threshold
Even still now. 1 [40u] Patch will heal 40 brute and 40 burn while applying 80 stamina damage if I’m reading this right:
As someone who reflected after abusing the shit out of it. No. I don’t believe its acceptable even with the removal of everything else enabling it. Its just a bad chemical in a vacuum.
Making it harder to make or lowering the safe dose will do little to change what’s wrong with it.
Synthflesh NEEDS to exist in the round for other reasons so it will always be made or supplied
Just to prove a point I went and made a synth factory in 15 min. Blood dupe being lost didn’t stop me and in fact, just made the matter cartridge requirement less.
Synthflesh experiment
Meta station: Starting equipment. 4 Constructors and 6 CMC
Extra equipment needed: 3 CMC, 1 Monkey, 1 IV drip, Handcuffs
Set up:
Final result:
Carbon drained at 4x rate from average
Hydrogen and Oxygen drained at 2x rate from average
Minor variance in the rest. Most sat at 300 by experiment end as carbon ran out and Monkey expired.
Yield: 40 patches of synthflesh [40u] (1600u)
Total yield theorised at 160 patches (6400u) per a full cycle consisting of 14 CMC and up to 5 monkeys/donors
Theorised healing potential between 6400-12800 damage
This is clearly not a problem
side note: Meiler ruined my old synth set up but not in the way they wanted, I used to mix everything outside of ammonia and blood in one but it now creates Meclizine in the process :^) had to tweak design slightly but still as compact
Edit:
Conclusion: Remove the healing from synthflesh, its not needed anymore as there are methods for bringing corpses into defib range via surgery. It should only be cloner/limb-grower juice and anti-husker.
I don’t see you winning against synth factories unless you do something drastic against the source itself