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BYOND Username: AleksAdamska
Seconding what Czar said, hotboxing got played out relatively shortly after the introduction of newsmoke. I'd gladly trade a relatively simple mechanic in favour of something that could potentially revolutionise and add a lot of fun to an entire department.
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BYOND Username: Sayuta/ImadeThisAccountForSpacebux
While I feel like this can, and likely will, have severe repercussions game play wise,
to put it simply uh, any major offenders can be ironed out afterwards a bit easier, instead of just hypothesizing on it.
A decent midway option I feel would be doing several trial-runs by possibly glueing the features (temporarily) to an admin-controlled button, to get some feedback, and possibly to also do internal testing to check for the extreme outliers.
And I also agree that hotboxing has kind of become something that's more known for its insane lethality rather than its hilarious gameplay implications.
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BYOND Username: Tewf
Yeah I think removing hotboxing would be the better choice of the two options here.
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BYOND Username: Lurkey
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BYOND Username: adharainspace
Character Name: Ada O'hara & Porter Starboard
as fun as hotboxing is, i feel like the gameplay variety you'd gain from something like having crazy spliceables would be much more fun than hotboxing. yeah crazy spliceables could be a bit like, weird at first, but i think that anything too crazily abuseable'd be toned down and its easily modifiable. i think the idea of some trial rounds wouls be fun too, just to see how it plays out
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BYOND Username: Vextrom1
gonna preach to the choir here and agree that this patch wins out over hotboxing for me.
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BYOND Username: pali6
I'd rather have this very sensible patch merged and then wait for a bit if hotboxing becomes a bigger problem. I don't see much use in hypothesizing about it now. If it does become a problem, nerf hotboxing (limiting the number of reagents that can be hotboxed from each herb or something like that maybe?).
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BYOND Username: The Gorog
Character Name: Nolan Stone
I would much prefer this over the hotboxing feature
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BYOND Username: Lady Birb
Character Name: Allie Allison
I say we add this AND keep hotboxing, and only remove hotboxing if it gets abused too much.
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BYOND Username: czarbomba
Please add this in some form. Hot boxing or no hot boxing, it would really improve botany and make it far more interesting.
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BYOND Username: Houka
I support this change. I don't support the removal of hotboxing. It's literally easier and faster to just make chemicals and smoke than it is to grow evil plants to do the same thing.