[Suggestion] Genome Splicer

I suggest we add a machine that would not just read the resistance, gain, and growth of a plant but would be able to change these characteristics up to a certain point for a relatively high eu cost

The recipe would be something similar to this:

For balance purposes and to not completely negate the use of the cropnalyzer this would only work on crops that had gone through a cropnalyzer 3 times previously. It would only be capable of taking energy from a Lapotron Crystal and would cost 100,000 eus to alter a characteristic from 0 to 1, 200,000 to alter from 1 to 2, 300,000 to alter from 2 to 3 and so on until eventually a Lapotron would not be capable of holding enough energy to get a characteristic higher than 10. I feel as if this would not be overpowered because the total eu cost to raise a plant with 0 resistance, 0 gain, and 0 growth to 10 in each 16,500,000 eus

So my real question here is would this be too overpowered and exploited for easy crop manipulation or would it be too underpowered due to the high cost of splicing genes?

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so back to the subject i get the feeling albkaka wants agriculture to be an inconvenient process (your not risking your neck spelunking after all)

I suppose that maybe agriculture was meant as an endgame kind of thing to obtain the best possible crops and this might sort of go back on the inconvenience of it

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Agriculture its something mean to be a side task, something you do when bored of mining and creating machines and shit.

I suppose I see your point here, if alcoholic beverages in IC2 were just plop ingredients into a magical do everything machine there would be no real point or fun to them as being sufficiently along in energy production would make them insanely easy to create