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Balance Discussion
After trying it out, I gotta say... it's kinda busted.

Only 1 hour for all procedures, regardless of how many body parts/genes you're removing? Have all genes from a pawn removed, and they survive as a glorified baseliner?
And the only downside is that pawns don't level up medical?
Honestly… that’s a pretty weak downside, especially when you can just circumvent that by not using the dissector until most pawns have medical 10. It doesn’t really balance out how powerful and risk-free the machine is.

Body Part Removal

1 hour feels way too fast. Maybe make it 0.5 hours per body part removed instead?
Alternatively, you could keep the 1-hour timer, but require 1 industrial medicine per body part to be loaded into the machine. If no medicine is loaded, there's a high chance the organ gets destroyed during the process. You could even make it support 2 herbal medicines as a cheaper alternative, or 1 glitterworld medicine to safely extract up to 3 parts at once.

Genes Extraction

Non-lethal gene removal completely breaks the logic of Biotech. In vanilla, extracting a single gene isn’t lethal, but doing it too often can kill the pawn. Removing all genes at once should absolutely be fatal, or at the very least, have serious consequences.
Here's some suggestions:

The patient will only lose xenogenes, not germline genes.
Removing genes should either kill the patient or cause a much harsher version of vanilla's Gene Shock.
To balance it further, require neutroamine to be loaded for safe extraction. If not, there's a risk that each gene gets destroyed instead of turned into a genepack (maybe 100 neutroamine per genepack?).
Archite genes shouldn't be extractable at all unless Archite Capsules are also loaded.

Even with those changes, I still think the gene extraction is way too busted, but at least it is not a "free xenotype reset"
Last edited by FelipeGames2000; 24 Jun @ 3:18pm
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it should need something to make genpacks,like 1 advanced component,just imagine using the cloning thing from anomaly and recruting the clones of a god pawn,then harvesting them and then u have inf god pawn,also it should be 120 steel and 6 components,need 300 watt and be accesable at machining
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