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I was crafting some meds the other day and I noticed that to get an advanced chem duration that I needed as much herbivore meat as I needed Class 4 petro fuel.

This struck me as odd. I can put a harvester down on the petro...I can't do the same with the meat. Meat is found in relatively small quantities, whereas the other ingredients can be gotten in huge quantities.
That seems very odd, considering some schematics require multiple factory-crated chem duration devices. So, basically, I have to make crates of like 20 adv. chem durations max...which means I can only make a crate of like 5 of the meds that I want.

So, here's my possible request for a change:
Can we request that low-quantity goods (like meats) have their quantities lowered in the schematics?

I don't want to get rid of the meats, I understand why they're there...the devs want interdependency between classes, so we need hunters. But, having it require so much meat pretty much means that we won't be able to make crates that will last us long. I would like to have a crate of 25-50 enhance packs that I carry on me...instead of the 2-3 crates I'm forced to carry now.

What do you guys think?

Though I agree with you due to the fact that it's a pain, I don't really want it chnaged.

The meat ingredients are in the game to help with class interdependancies. So if you really wanted these is high numbers, you should contract with a Ranger type person to harvest them for you.

Here's an idea to possibly add to yours. Maybe create Traps that you can set to 'catch' meat needed. You could have them only made by Rangers, and you just set them up, pay maintence and power. And a Ranger could just tell you where to place it for best results (A Ranger should know common animal traffic spots).

I don't know if that is a very good example. Class 4 Liquid Petro spawns rarely enough and is the same on all plaents is spawns on when it does come into cycle. So even though a large quantity could be had, it can only be had at certain times and at a certain quality.

Herbivore meat, on the other hand, is always in cycle, available on all planets and the qualities can be compared to other herbivore meats on the other planets (or even on the same planet if more than one type of that meat is in cycle for any particular planet), so while they can only be gathered in smaller quantities at a time, overall there are more opportunities to get more herbivore meat than there are to get Class 4 Petro.

I got 36k of class 4 petro in just a few days, without doing anything but letting the harvesters go.

I'd love to see if you have a stack of 36k of one type of herbivore meat.

My problem is not the requirement of the meat...it's the fact that you can almost never find it in 2k or larger stacks of one type...so you end up with small crates of components, thus even smaller crates of final goods.