Minor Genetics Overhaul

[awfulworldkid]

One thing that I can think of that could improve quality of life would be having, when gene checking, another display for when you have the good nucleobase pair but in the wrong order (say A - T instead of T - A).
The time interval is long enough between each checking it's not worth the time filling the genes this way. That's part of why you end up with geneticists being the entire round in their room. It's easy to get good genes, but it's not so easy to actually get something specific you want without chance or spending a long time doing it.

anything that incentivizes not using activators is a Bad Idea and should be treated as such unless it’s something that makes not using activators give the same bonuses as using activators
EDIT:

Yes except there's nothing to spend money on in the research budget but research and there's FAR, FAR faster ways of making credits anyway. Buying chromosomes should be unlocked via research, but you should be able to combine them right away

honestly there’s no reason NOT to let us sell materials and it’s a good way to make genetics maybe seen as less of a drain on station resources
EDIT 2:

Buy crates of random injectors at the QM to get a leg up maybe? This sounds like a good idea.

the issue I’m having is less that it’s hard to get good genes and more that there are only really four chromosomes worth using basically ever (and only one of the others is even edge case useful) and that unless you want your stability to suck ass or you have two competent geneticists in the same room you’re only ever really going to use stabilizer; the problem with this is that there’s currently NO WAY to get chromosomes other than using activators and hoping you nail the literally 5% chance that you get what you want