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[1.5+] BoomChem Takes Time: A Simple Boomalope Tweak

In short: boomalopes produce bigger batches of chemfuel, but it takes more time.
Goal: further distinguish boomalopes from other milkable animals, while maintaining balance both with the original values and with the more valuable infinite chemreactor.
Compatibility: very. Safe to add/remove mid-playthrough.
Questions, quibbles, exact values? Read on.

So, here's the nitty-gritty. Vanilla boomalopes produce 12 chemfuel every 2 days; so, 6/day. I changed this to 25 chemfuel every 5 days; at 5/day, that's a small decrease. (Compare to the infinite chemreactor at 75 every 10 days: 7.5/day.)

Still balanced? I believe so. Arguably it's a buff, since your handlers spend less time overall running around extracting the "milk." At the same time, arguably it's a nerf, since the average yield/day is ~83% of the former value - and a dead boomalope might mean a lot more chemfuel lost.

Why bother? I was looking at my pet explosives, thinking about how massive those chemfuel sacs are. (As one does. Don't look at me like that.) Much larger than, say, a cow's udder - yet it produced even less liquid per milking, let alone per day. And the metabolic processes to produce chemfuel must be quite complicated - the infinite chemreactor takes 10 days and 300W to produce 75 units, and that's a valuable quest reward, not a run-of-the-mill herd animal. So, I decided that it would make more sense for boomalopes to produce chemfuel on a more comparable scale, balancing out the reduction in time needed to milk them with a slight decrease in the production rate to 2/3 the speed of the chemreactor, rather than the former 4/5ths.
Yeah, might also have something to do with my OCD tendencies. :/

Is all this talk of b o u n t i f u l sacs of petrochemicals getting you excited? I am! So excited that I made a mod that causes boomrats to yield chemfuel too! And it's compatible with this one! Double teat-tuggin' action!
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2255314898 - the goods
Load Tug Those Gas Rat Teats ^ before BoomChem Takes Time.

Happy milking!


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It's a very minor change I made for my own playthrough, after all. Who cares?