Goonhub
05-02-2024, 03:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-02-2024, 03:30 AM by TDHooligan. Edited 3 times in total.)
I think chem requests have gone down as there are rarely chemists willing and able to fulfill them.
IMO the chem skill floor is way, way, way too high atm. and the ceiling is dropped down as of the rework.
The only reason most experienced chemists get shit done is because they know exactly what they're making, and they make it.
On the other hand, newbies meandering around with chemistry are tasked with creating some incredibly slow, boring reactions. So they don't do them. So they never learn, which is why we're seeing the same names single handedly making pent/perf A Thing, and why they the chem rework barely impacted them.
If you're too new to know that oil can be heated, fucking up your oil is punishable by waiting for a literal 20 minutes. There's a tedium making everything you do for others even slower (cooling shit down again. waiting for acetone, waiting for diethylamine, waiting for oil, waiting for sulfuric.)
A lot of these recipes require 4 things you wait for. And a lot of these things have noob traps built into them.
Now, you're trying to figure out what cool things go boom (not many) so you're scouring the wiki, making Phlog, whatever. And someone asks you to do a 12-step reaction? It's clear as day why chemists blank medbay. They're likely trying to do the most basic stuff.
IMO the chem skill floor is way, way, way too high atm. and the ceiling is dropped down as of the rework.
The only reason most experienced chemists get shit done is because they know exactly what they're making, and they make it.
On the other hand, newbies meandering around with chemistry are tasked with creating some incredibly slow, boring reactions. So they don't do them. So they never learn, which is why we're seeing the same names single handedly making pent/perf A Thing, and why they the chem rework barely impacted them.
If you're too new to know that oil can be heated, fucking up your oil is punishable by waiting for a literal 20 minutes. There's a tedium making everything you do for others even slower (cooling shit down again. waiting for acetone, waiting for diethylamine, waiting for oil, waiting for sulfuric.)
A lot of these recipes require 4 things you wait for. And a lot of these things have noob traps built into them.
Now, you're trying to figure out what cool things go boom (not many) so you're scouring the wiki, making Phlog, whatever. And someone asks you to do a 12-step reaction? It's clear as day why chemists blank medbay. They're likely trying to do the most basic stuff.