Goonhub
10-22-2019, 09:33 PM
It was never really 'abused', per se. As you've mentioned, the ridiculous amount of sheer tedium in assembling the mix and the fact it could only be made once in a while made it exceptionally impractical to run into the ground.
It's more that it was the ur-secret, the ultimate in chemnerdery with the most esoteric process of assembly. The "fun" was in discovering it, not actually using it. When the method behind making it was leaked, the recipe was changed cause that's de riguer for all leaked secret chems. The fact that the change made the chemical actually unable to be made was of little interest to the vast majority of players, since those who knew it knew that it was always too impractical to assemble from scratch on most rounds, and the rest of the playerbase didn't care.
It's more that it was the ur-secret, the ultimate in chemnerdery with the most esoteric process of assembly. The "fun" was in discovering it, not actually using it. When the method behind making it was leaked, the recipe was changed cause that's de riguer for all leaked secret chems. The fact that the change made the chemical actually unable to be made was of little interest to the vast majority of players, since those who knew it knew that it was always too impractical to assemble from scratch on most rounds, and the rest of the playerbase didn't care.