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The idea is to add Chicken Egg Incubators to the Gardengear Vendors in the Botany section of the Afterlife Bar and maybe a ranching equipment locker as well, or a separate area dedicated to ranching. Growing crops is fun but I would also like to try raising my own afterlife chickens as well!
P.S. A chemidispenser could also be added to the afterlife as well! That way getting weaker poisonous chemicals for plants such as Plasma can be possible, since I am unable to harvest Blooming Lashers because Atrazine is too weak, unless there already is one that I havent seen yet.
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I believe that will cause an exploit.
As someone who once crashed the server with my gimmicks. I can safely say... you don't want both these ideas.
Chem dispenser will mean secret chem training in the afterlife.
Chicken incubators/eggs will ...well.. caus eother problems.
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Why not just play rancher?
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Pretty much what Cal said, you'll end up having more fun and probably learning quicker.
But, and I'm not dying on this hill but it's something to consider: Because ranching is still locked behind secret content in its entirety its not normally available for local servers. If you want to practice or do some riskier ranching unlike most department stuff you're going to be doing it live. It also has less slots available than botany, so if anything its kind of weird we've got Botany in the afterlife that's usually got plenty of slots.
Then again then again, Ranching isn't tremendously competitive for getting a slot in my experience. I can usually get a slot more often than not, and GENERALLY SPEAKING any particularly risky egg magic at least confines its danger to its own department, or isn't any more dangerous than say: Chemistry making something really fun, your junior/senior artscientists licking an artifact bomb, or really just anything because every department is a deathtrap in its own way.
So I honestly don't know man. Unless we suddenly keep losing the station to situations eggxtremis, there's a 20+ person battle for rancher as their favourite job, I'd say probably just take a shot at it in rounds. Accidents happen, failed experiments happen, and if you stashed a ranch in the afterlife there's some things it would still be missing.
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Understandable Lefinch! I mainly just wanted to suggest some extra stuff that could be added to Afterlife Bar. Thanks for the reply!
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Ideas are always cool, keep them coming. Give it some time too someone else might either love the idea and make it happen, or you or someone else comes up with a perfect idea to make everyone happy.
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Chickens create mobs and can "go infinite" in certain situations. I don't want them positioned in a place where living players can't deal with "the problem" or report it to the admins if someone is being abusive with them.
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(11-26-2024, 09:05 PM)UrsulaMejor Wrote: Chickens create mobs and can "go infinite" in certain situations. I don't want them positioned in a place where living players can't deal with "the problem" or report it to the admins if someone is being abusive with them.
Pretty much what I was gonna point out, but didn't want to say anything direct cause I don't want anyone to try this in the game to break servers.
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All chickens go to heaven. That's my takeaway here.