I think the shop will help a bit with how we have things now (and it’s nice to get reduced costs for the modern side as a result + easier to get coli genes this way), but honestly I still think they overcomplicated ancient genes from the start. I feel like the simpler solution would have just been to make a Modern and Ancient version of a gene, and list in the description what breeds can use that. So if you go buy Ancient Breed: Firefly, the description would say These breeds can use this gene: (insert whatever ones have it here). Add new breeds to the description as they get it. Then you just get two gene items to deal with across the site. Maybe there’s coding issues that prevent that, but if you can lock out certain breeds from Modern genes, why can’t you do the reverse?

I’m also confused what’s preventing them from adding the Marketplace ancient genes here. They said it’s because of the lowered pricing in the marketplace, but just.. set it to that price in the GE shop? We have plenty of shops with a mix of treasure/gem/item-currency, so it’s not like it isn’t possible.

I appreciate them trying to make things work and I know they’re doing the best with the system they have set up, but I feel like there’s never going to be a streamlined way of doing it when we have five+ different gene scrolls for one gene. On the plus side, we get a nice new NPC, and I do love GE shops, sooo.. I’ll take it lol.