Drug Recipes

[moment]

Hi eclipse community,

Over the years we had the same drug recipes, I was wondering how does the entire community feel/think about them. From my perspective the main two drugs have always been COCAINE and LSD. I think if devs and admins were to check the percentage of lab usage it would be mostly the tables that you can cook LSD and COCAINE. Personally I think drug recipes for CRACK, ECTASY, METH and HEROIN maybe can be changed or tweaked a bit so it adds more variety and more other lab usages. 

What do guys think, should it change?

 

Edited July 12, 2024 by moment

[Gankis]

+1

[benchippendale]

+1 

Cocaine should be an ingredient for crack, and crack should be much more valuable (double cook)

[Lightninbolt9]

+1

The "less popular" drugs have been still made over the last 4 years since the change over from the ingredients being available at labs but by far the majority of the drugs that have been made since then have been either Cocaine or LSD. This all comes down to the time/money invested and the return of value when selling. Cocaine and LSD are by far the most efficient to make when calculating those two factors so it's hard not to blame people for wanting to make either of the two. I do think the pricing for some of the drugs has been at a fair point since the last adjustments were made to where you can really no longer mega boost the prices. It would be great to see a tweak be done to the less popular drugs to where their relevance of being made is at least in a close range if not equal or better than that of LSD/Cocaine right now. I think there's a couple of different routes in which these less popular drugs could be tweaked to help make them be more relevant to making. One way would be to tweak the ingredients and the way you obtain one or multiple of these ingredients. This could be a price cut on the specific ingredient(s) at humane or maybe changing where one or multiple of the ingredients are obtained. Another way could be to reduce the time it takes to make these less popular drugs. I'd think the crafting time reduction would be the easiest option to go with in terms of balancing and boosting their relevance/demand to be made by crims. So long as the time, money, ingredient total, potential shipping power, and return value when selling are accounted for and brought into comparison to Cocaine/LSD I think it is possible to boost the production of these lesser made drugs. These are just some of my thoughts though. Hopeful to see some more thoughts/suggestions from the community on this topic.     
 

[Sigma]

3 hours ago, moment said:

Hi eclipse community,

Over the years we had the same drug recipes, I was wondering how does the entire community feel/think about them. From my perspective the main two drugs have always been COCAINE and LSD. I think if devs and admins were to check the percentage of lab usage it would be mostly the tables that you can cook LSD and COCAINE. Personally I think drug recipes for CRACK, ECTASY, METH and HEROIN maybe can be changed or tweaked a bit so it adds more variety and more other lab usages. 

What do guys think, should it change?

 

+1 Excellent suggestion sir! I believe thy narcotics should be adjusted as mentioned by yourself

[Kevin Biker]

+1

People barely cook crack,meth,heroine and ecstasy, if maybe there can be change to make it a bit easier to cook those drugs i feel that would be better like ‘Moment’ mentioned. 

[Tuco666]

I think, the most realistic way would be like this:

Currently, you need marijuana plants for almost every drug which in my opinion is unrealistic.

We could have more plants like:

Puppy Plant + other ingredients = Opium and then Heroine or just Heroine.

Coca Plants + other ingredients = Cocaine

Marijuana Plants = Blunts

Sassafras Plants + other ingredients = MDMA

Then, crack would be made from cocaine, heroine from opium if you choose to add opium as a drug, ecstasy from MDMA. You can double the price of those drugs.

I think this would be the most realistic drug recipes, but atleast, we should have more plants in the game because making all drugs from weed, isnt that realistic.

 

[Cup]

The more Ive thought about this, i like the idea of moving away from marijuana plants being used in EVERY recipe because it would open doors in the future for RP to lead to legalization and stuff like that. But with marijuana being tied to all the other drugs I don't really see a way for that to make sense.

[benchippendale]

5 minutes ago, Cup said:

The more Ive thought about this, i like the idea of moving away from marijuana plants being used in EVERY recipe because it would open doors in the future for RP to lead to legalization and stuff like that. But with marijuana being tied to all the other drugs I don't really see a way for that to make sense.

I always thought it would be nice if you could buy 'legal marijuana' within certain limits for medical purposes. There's a weed shop near the main bank that could be used as a dispensary. Each person could have a daily limit they can purchase. It should be more expensive to buy than the 'illegal marijuana' made in labs to buy and worthless to sell to NPCs.