Chemistry nerfs

[Lord_earthfire]

I would say for more exotic things sure why not. But base metals and silver no. There are a bunch of recipes that require iron most importantly stabilizer, and silver for silver sulf, that are kind of essential to do your job. Not to mention that now on a low pop round it means if you don’t have a mining crew an additional department is now sol.

Then there is the whole trying to teach this to a new player is going to be even more of a nightmare than chemistry can already be.

Yeah, i was mostly targeting radium, because it's one of the strongest baseline chem poison with mostly destructive uses.

Normal metals i don't think need to be restricted. Maybe the more exotic ones, but iron is too essential and would hurt many things.

But honestly, i don't mind silver sufazide being restricted. Charcoal is restricted the same way by limited supply and it's not destroying the department. Like with charcoal, you still got botany and QM that can bring you the supplies. And charcoal is used in higher amounts than silver sufazide. And above all that, synthflesh is avaible in almost unlimited quantities to anyone eith access to a monkey and a chem dispenser.

But then again, silver isn't really used anywhere else so i don't think it needs a nerf. There's silver sulfazide, silver fulminate and Formaldeyde with their respective recipes (pent acid most notably). And these aren't problematic chems in comparison to radium and unstable mutagen.

Again we run into a similar problem as with my deparment budget suggestion ( which I don’t even like) what happens when some person comes in dispenses all the metal chems dumps it down the drain and repeats it on every single dispenser in the department. Sure it’s a bit slower than the budget shenanigans but don’t tell me people will not do it just to grief.

Well, if you manage to dump these chemicals in multiple departments, destroyed QM, mining, botany and starve out medbays internal supplies, you just freaking earned it. Personally i would go the easy way and bomb medbay, though.