Goonhub
12-07-2012, 04:56 PM
While this would be a fun thing to have, I'm not so sure it would be a good idea to just give out.
There are chemistry lists online of all the stuff you can make with common recipes, and many of them still work, but I wouldn't share the location of them just because that makes them too easy to abuse.
Something like this is far better off as one of those things that if someone wants to save time, they'll build it themselves, and that will be much better then just releasing something like this wholescale.
That said, if it was released, I'd totally play with it just because telescience is a hard thing to learn.
But the main issue is how would telescience retain it's current challenge for most people (except the smart kids who build things like this) if people just use cheat programs they found on the internet to do it.
Wiki is already cheating enough and that requires some level of math skills to do.
I prefer it remains challenging for the sake of being challenging because that makes the smart kids feel good that they figured out how to abuse it and it keeps the dumb kids from making it a horrible idea (e.g Pathology, or chemistry on a bad day)
There are chemistry lists online of all the stuff you can make with common recipes, and many of them still work, but I wouldn't share the location of them just because that makes them too easy to abuse.
Something like this is far better off as one of those things that if someone wants to save time, they'll build it themselves, and that will be much better then just releasing something like this wholescale.
That said, if it was released, I'd totally play with it just because telescience is a hard thing to learn.
But the main issue is how would telescience retain it's current challenge for most people (except the smart kids who build things like this) if people just use cheat programs they found on the internet to do it.
Wiki is already cheating enough and that requires some level of math skills to do.
I prefer it remains challenging for the sake of being challenging because that makes the smart kids feel good that they figured out how to abuse it and it keeps the dumb kids from making it a horrible idea (e.g Pathology, or chemistry on a bad day)