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schmloo

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Registered: 2019-06-15

Posts: 200

Suggestion: Dynamic Plated Food Varieties

The recent food nerfs have clearly stressed a heavy reliance on high yum chains. However, this can be very difficult and can get boring making the same variety of foods. Making a bunch of pies that don’t look any different and usually consist of mixtures of 3 ingredients, or mutton, feels very samey in each and every town, which links to a problem of no way of making unique town cultures, with the exception of some foods like french fries, tortillas or sauerkraut. Using real life as an example, food is a very common factor in culture.

Adding the ability to plate up 3 different food types, and allowing each and every combination to give yum, would give a few benefits. Firstly, this as stated above would give a LOT more variety per town, and may even lead to people experimenting with different combinations as the “norm” of that town. Secondly, it fits in well to the most recent changes of needing to survive off of yum bonus aka. more sophisticated foods, or dying. I’m pretty sure a normal practice is to eat a meal with several components. Whole pies, however, can not be used this way, and maybe need to be sliced off with a knife. Thirdly, I personally think it adds a little bit of immersion. As a kid, those foods on their own later on in the game are going to give you very few pips, which seems equivalent in “trying new foods”. When you’re a bit older, you can combine these foods together to give you a filling meal of say, turkey, green beans and corn, which acts as a weaker feast plate, and essentially depends on “what you tried as a kid”, in respect to the yum bonus you built up as a kid. And then, when you’re old, you try a whole range of things you’ve never tried before and get an incredible food bonus, with the side effect of hallucinations. And fourthly, it’s essentially an advancement in society. Plated foods. Yes, I know, a grand invention.

This is a QOL suggestion I think, but in my own opinion would greatly benefit and provide a lot of help (with in return a bit of effort from the players) from the heavy food nerfs that have been introduced.

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Spoonwood

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Registered: 2019-02-06

Posts: 4,369

Re: Suggestion: Dynamic Plated Food Varieties

What do you mean by plate up 3 different food types?  I don't understand the idea you've proposed.  Can you explain it more thoroughly as to how it works?

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schmloo

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Registered: 2019-06-15

Posts: 200

Re: Suggestion: Dynamic Plated Food Varieties

What do you mean by plate up 3 different food types?  I don't understand the idea you've proposed.  Can you explain it more thoroughly as to how it works?

TL;DR, You can put any 3 foods on a plate. Every different combination gives yum bonus. Useful for overcoming the lack of possibility of yum foods in late game towns, where everyone ends up smacking 2 or more whole berry bushes into their gobs.

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Nika50501

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Registered: 2018-07-11

Posts: 27

Re: Suggestion: Dynamic Plated Food Varieties

Bad suggestion, it would be too overpowered. 3^(n-2) is the amount of different foods possible. So, if your town has 10 food types you would have 6561 combinations already. If you had 20 foods you would have 387420489 foods possible.

Blue tinker

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Registered: 2020-03-31

Posts: 53

Re: Suggestion: Dynamic Plated Food Varieties

It would be interesting if different races could craft different versions of the same food each of which would count towards the yum bonus (like a special kind of pie, each type recovers the same amount of pips but is treated as a different food).

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pein

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Registered: 2018-03-31

Posts: 4,337

Re: Suggestion: Dynamic Plated Food Varieties

had a similar idea

planet base was a good example

there was burger (any meat wheat) and pasta (wheat tomato veggies) and salad (any 3 veggies)
but rather we could have the main dishes and side dishes

we could make meals combining some meat and a secondary food
combining them would give more value

would need like 8combos
they would be like Rabbit with Potato or Mutton with onion etc.

alternatively similar to pouches and bottles could be big plates that would count as different food but would need 2 items on it
then you wouldn't combine foods, you would use different plates, but that could be a bit unrealistic (at least easier to make)

Combining more food types would be nice, would make collecting foods more viable, so people would make yum zones

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schmloo

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Registered: 2019-06-15

Posts: 200

Re: Suggestion: Dynamic Plated Food Varieties

It would be interesting if different races could craft different versions of the same food each of which would count towards the yum bonus (like a special kind of pie, each type recovers the same amount of pips but is treated as a different food).

Yes! This could even be extended to clothing too. What if White people made really fancy clothing, and better foods, making them masters of artisan goods, and giving them a bit more of a purpose in the racial restrictions game, even if it’s not contributing to rubber/oil?

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