Goonhub
04-10-2014, 04:23 AM
Boosting plant stats requires infusions, and it can take a lot of time and generations if you're not a superpro botanist.
The Dominant/recessive system is mostly useful to transfer one useful attribute from a seed to another (for instance using a seed with high Yield to improve the yield of a different seed with high Potency).
But you can't grow two strains of a crop for a single attribute and splice them together to improve that quicker.
What if having two Dominant or recessive seeds could be used to increase a single attribute.
Let's say you have two tomato seeds, both Dominant for Yield:
seed 1 has Yield 50,
seed 2 has Yield 48.
When you splice the seed, the numerical difference between seeds is calculated. 50 - 48 = 2.
That number is used to subtract a fraction from the maximum boost you want to allow.
If the maximum boost is 100% - doubling an attribute - in our case 100% - 20% (from the 2 units difference) would give a boost of 80% to the seed you are splicing to.
The seed with Yield 50 would go up to 90.
Splicing together a Dominant and a recessive seed would still be used to overwrite a bad attribute of your r seed with a good one from the D.
But there would be a way to improve your plants with crossbreeding instead of relying exclusively on infusions.
The Dominant/recessive system is mostly useful to transfer one useful attribute from a seed to another (for instance using a seed with high Yield to improve the yield of a different seed with high Potency).
But you can't grow two strains of a crop for a single attribute and splice them together to improve that quicker.
What if having two Dominant or recessive seeds could be used to increase a single attribute.
Let's say you have two tomato seeds, both Dominant for Yield:
seed 1 has Yield 50,
seed 2 has Yield 48.
When you splice the seed, the numerical difference between seeds is calculated. 50 - 48 = 2.
That number is used to subtract a fraction from the maximum boost you want to allow.
If the maximum boost is 100% - doubling an attribute - in our case 100% - 20% (from the 2 units difference) would give a boost of 80% to the seed you are splicing to.
The seed with Yield 50 would go up to 90.
Splicing together a Dominant and a recessive seed would still be used to overwrite a bad attribute of your r seed with a good one from the D.
But there would be a way to improve your plants with crossbreeding instead of relying exclusively on infusions.