MedSci discussion

[Lord_earthfire]

when's the last time you've seen a capable chemist actually realistically mess 99% of these hoops up. i only see them get newbies. and when they get newbies, newbies are also the ones having the hardest time crafting the reagents they just wasted.

Interestingly, fairly often, once you try to chain multiple reaction steps together. Smelling salts or random potassium in some recipes (so you cannot chain the sulfuric acid reaction into Fluorosulfuric acid) ruined a few more chemgroups than i like to admit.

It begins as a complication you run into when you try to synthetize the chems the first time, and then keeps on giving once you try to optimize them.

Of course they stop being an issue once you got your chem procedures finished, but at that point the puzzle-solving aspect of chem is over and reactions turn into a mundane time gate.

But if its only about getting the chems and reactions are timegates, we could return to copy/pasting chemgroups and make the end result just take/waste time. But that is, like prior to the chem rework, an uninteractive and unrewarding system.