Greetings, Eclipse Community!
I’ve created this thread to discuss the latest patch which was applied on the 14th of November.
My own experience has shown me there is absolutely no justification for changing it.
After testing, the system revealed itself to be extremely unstable and pointless. Utilizing private drug labs no longer seems convenient.
The goal of this is to transfer players to public drug labs and is completely understandable, but I think there’s more to cooking than most people think.
However, with that recent change, cooking in a private lab has become totally useless and all the money a player have spent on a big lab goes the same way.
The Good:
The spilling is a realistic way to replicate a real life phenomenon–the spilling of chemicals once you throw in the combination.
It’s another task to do while cooking, so it's not as easy. It also gives you another thing to do instead of being afk to only pour water every now and then.
The Bad:
The script is broken, ;
Once you successfully clean the spill of a drug table, a whole different group of tables gets cleaned as well or its spill randomly vanishes.
The action timers when a cook is in-operation of a big lab makes it difficult to handle, hence a huge loss to those who own big labs.
Once the change is in effect, on the 17th, people will only be able to cook on 10 tables at most. As NBDY stated, when a table is under the spill effect, it’ll go warmer.
Cooking ticks of having to pour water every 4 minutes is too low for you to do two tasks at once.
Solutions: (please try to add your solutions or adjust to mine and be constructive)
First of all, fix this bug as I believe it is part of the mess:
https://forum.eclipse-rp.net/topic/113516-ui-drug-table-shifting-options-at-the-end-of-cook/
Revert back to the old system.
Make the spill ticks significantly low and let spills only happen after the cook is finished and that it doesn’t affect the heating of the table, however, for every spill tick, it adds up one action timer tick. So, if one spill happens and another and another (3), you have to do the action timer 3 times, and in the end, you can’t add more chemicals to a table for the new cook in the future if the table is spilled so you would only have to clean up after finishing cooking.