Chemistry nerfs

[TwoBraids]

Long story short, hurting new players progress to impede problem players being problem players, is not the solution I would look for.

Agree with this. When I was new to chemistry I made everything by scratch anyways. But doing anything that was even slightly complicated was unfun for me to do by hand so I started making basic chem groups that I still use today for certain things. The font is small and looking back and forth between the wiki is not fun. Using chems is fun. For most, making them is not when it is a tedious process and punishing everyone because of a few recipes are being misused seems unfair.

Like others have said, why not tweak how some problem recipes work so it requires more steps like real chemistry does? You shouldn't be able to turn the chem heater up to maximum and have most chems just be ok with being 1000C for example. Even adding things like, you need beaker tongs to take hot beakers out of the heater without burning yourself could add little time buffers to make things take longer. Things like that would be more interesting and add small things, not take away.

And even some recipes, if followed wrong, like Egg's meth recipe... well, 90% of the fires in medbay's pharmacy I see are caused by people not doing that recipe correctly. Some players actually think it doesn't work because they are doing one thing wrong out of laziness.

Add more heating and specific mixing requirements if you want to gatekeep certain chems, but please do not make me waste 20 minutes not RPing on a round just staring at a chem screen and pressing buttons. It is not fun and would make my gameplay experience worse.

And in the end, even if a system that makes it worse for everyone comes out, people who do want to speed run death chems will find a way with a new system.