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[Val]

I may be reading you wrong here - do you mean they ARE halved right now, or they SHOULD be halved?

I'm saying that they are halved right now, on account of tubs holding at least twice as much water as before. The water system works fine as it is at the moment. There's less of a concern to water everything as it once was, anyway.

I was intending to do away with it completely in favor of a new method for splicing plants. The problem is I haven't thought of it yet. Like, the method of cross-pollination - how? Do you use a seed on an existing plant? Some new machine that mushes seeds together? I don't get it.

I was thinking of something like the latter. Similar to the gene manipulator, but made with the express purpose to cross-pollinate and splice the seeds.

Idea I had was that the genes passed between seeds would just be the stat genes and gene strain mutations. Stuff like crop yield, species, and species-specific mutations like rainbow weed wouldn't be transmittable...

Yes, this is a lot of what I also had in mind when thinking of the splicing mechanic. Transgenic crops with beneficial traits from other seeds. Although the process of splicing would be tricky itself to where you'd have to get just those traits you want without messing everything else up.

Clarks suggested a dominant/recessive gene system where dominance for genes are tracked, and the dominant one will always take precedence if the other is submissive, otherwise it'd be 50/50.

I guess this could also work. I'm guessing the plant analyzer will come into play here. Or better yet, make a super plant analyzer machine (probably the same as the plant splicer) so you can figure out which genes do what and what's most likely to be passed onto the next generation or the seeds you want to splice.

I could add a further delay to this, though I may consider just making slurrypods much rarer in general or make them a special thing rather than a randomly growing weed.

I don't see a huge deal with slurry pods, but making them a greater threat would be interesting. In my opinion they should be rarer, but not much more rare than any of the existing dangerous weed types. If anything, fungus should be a bit more common.

Most of the dangers in hydroponics are directed towards the player in the form of lashers and radweed. The creeper is annoying to deal with, but the most it does is just prevent you from growing in that tub and spread into other ones, similar to kudzu...hmm.