Anyone else feel like the advanced auxiliary section is missing something? The centrifuge advances the multimixer but there is no upgraded shaker, which would open more combos or be useful if you like to use multimixers.
How about something like the following:
Advanced Auxiliary - Stirrer
Reorientates your drugs, swapping the position of two effects. The UI could work like the centrifuge, with green highlights for the two effects to be swapped.
Like it?
I can imagine situations where that could come in handy for the centrifuge too. Say you have this configuration:
Ingredient 1 (at concentration you want)
Cure you want
trash
Cure you want
trash
Ingredient 2
Cure you want
Catalyst you want
trash
trash
In that case, you’d currently have to use two centrifuges in a row (with a shaker in between) to move both of the things you want to ingredient 1, since they don’t fit in the slots between the cures you want. But with a stirrer, you could change Ingredient 2 to
Ingredient 2
trash
Catalyst you want
trash
Cure you want
in one step, and then centrifuge them together.
So yeah, I am definitely in favor of this being added.
Although the UI couldn’t be quite like the centrifuge since the centrifuge allows any number between 0 and 4 to be selected, whereas this machine would only work with 2. So there needs to be some way to force the player to swap two ingredients. Perhaps have two of the 4-tile centrifuge UIs next to each other, and force each one to only have one green tile at a time. When the player clicks on a red tile, it moves the green tile to the spot they clicked on. This allows the player to select a no-op, but not to select an invalid operation.
How about instead of this they added a machine that bumps down a side effect/cure by 1, 2 or 3.