Goonhub
06-20-2023, 07:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-20-2023, 07:56 PM by Brixx79. Edited 1 time in total.)
1: How will it interact with food? Kinda like ketchup and mustard?
My initial thoughts were to treat it like a normal food ingredient where it would be combined with other things to create dishes. It could also be put into a bowl and eaten by itself, but the benefits should be lower if just consumed straight imo. It's not really like adding a hot sauce packet. More of 'what if I coated/marinated this chicken in hot sauce'.
2: Wrong ingridents? Do you get disgusting sauce? will it make a great dish taste like ass?
There should certainly be some version of 'burnt mess' for sauce if you just toss in a random mix. Some mixes I'd like to be more flexible (eg. vinegar and any veggies might give you a mignonette). Sauces should have a baseline of what they're to be used with and stepping out of that would result in an unpleasant dish.
3: Chemicals in the sauce? Will they effect anything? Can you make a poison sauce?
It would be wonderful if I could find a way to implement it like the ice cream machine where you pop in a beaker to use it's contents considering things like water would be involved. And really the oven should work this way too (Why does milk have to be in a bottle instead of a beaker if it's the right amount?). Currently though you'd have to inject it like other food items.
4. Sprites?
Ideally there would be a lot of new food items we could add with these injected into the system. I'd love to pair it with a pasta maker version of the ice cream machine so you could create different types of pasta that were color shaded to their ingredient. Many sauces could be added as color changed sprites on top for flexible dishes (eg. green pesto, red tomato). And while you can generically mix pasta/sauces (if pasta is a pairing for that sauce) and create a 'rigatoni bechemel', pairing the right sauce/pasta/food items would result in 'homemade mac and cheese' with better bonuses. Some things like teriyaki dishes might work best as recolors of the main ingredient used with the sauce.
5. Yeah but... what do they do?
I'd like them to be a handshake with the chemical and/or food systems currently in place to boost them and make food more of a consideration in people's plans. Some of the ideas I was bouncing around outside the current food buffs (eg. stamina regen):
Adding a multiplier (positive or negative) to chemical decay
10u of Booster Enzyme
Tempura can coat something so well it could hide chem scans
Veloute should give some great standard food buffs but decay into cheese and cholesterol
Bolognese adds a multiplier to physical damage (beefy!)
Teriyaki acts like glue, slowing you down for a short bit but gives a movement boost after
Broths I was thinking of acting as different heals (eg. Fish's omega3's heal brain damage, beef brute)
Creme Anglais I'd like to give a minor buff when used as is, but when chilled it becomes 'creme de glace' with more use
I'll admit I have not fleshed it out in-depth, which was part of the reason I posted for feedback! My coding skills might also be lacking to flesh this out as deeply as I'd like, but I'm willing to give it a whirl. Do people think it would work better as just a 'packet' type item like hot sauce? My thoughts are the work put in should feel like more than just a 'quick add on' to a dish. Would introducing something like calories to food be a good way to showcase cooking so you can see the 'Round's most calorie laden dish eaten" at the end? What do you think would help cooking pop more?
My initial thoughts were to treat it like a normal food ingredient where it would be combined with other things to create dishes. It could also be put into a bowl and eaten by itself, but the benefits should be lower if just consumed straight imo. It's not really like adding a hot sauce packet. More of 'what if I coated/marinated this chicken in hot sauce'.
2: Wrong ingridents? Do you get disgusting sauce? will it make a great dish taste like ass?
There should certainly be some version of 'burnt mess' for sauce if you just toss in a random mix. Some mixes I'd like to be more flexible (eg. vinegar and any veggies might give you a mignonette). Sauces should have a baseline of what they're to be used with and stepping out of that would result in an unpleasant dish.
3: Chemicals in the sauce? Will they effect anything? Can you make a poison sauce?
It would be wonderful if I could find a way to implement it like the ice cream machine where you pop in a beaker to use it's contents considering things like water would be involved. And really the oven should work this way too (Why does milk have to be in a bottle instead of a beaker if it's the right amount?). Currently though you'd have to inject it like other food items.
4. Sprites?
Ideally there would be a lot of new food items we could add with these injected into the system. I'd love to pair it with a pasta maker version of the ice cream machine so you could create different types of pasta that were color shaded to their ingredient. Many sauces could be added as color changed sprites on top for flexible dishes (eg. green pesto, red tomato). And while you can generically mix pasta/sauces (if pasta is a pairing for that sauce) and create a 'rigatoni bechemel', pairing the right sauce/pasta/food items would result in 'homemade mac and cheese' with better bonuses. Some things like teriyaki dishes might work best as recolors of the main ingredient used with the sauce.
5. Yeah but... what do they do?
I'd like them to be a handshake with the chemical and/or food systems currently in place to boost them and make food more of a consideration in people's plans. Some of the ideas I was bouncing around outside the current food buffs (eg. stamina regen):
Adding a multiplier (positive or negative) to chemical decay
10u of Booster Enzyme
Tempura can coat something so well it could hide chem scans
Veloute should give some great standard food buffs but decay into cheese and cholesterol
Bolognese adds a multiplier to physical damage (beefy!)
Teriyaki acts like glue, slowing you down for a short bit but gives a movement boost after
Broths I was thinking of acting as different heals (eg. Fish's omega3's heal brain damage, beef brute)
Creme Anglais I'd like to give a minor buff when used as is, but when chilled it becomes 'creme de glace' with more use
I'll admit I have not fleshed it out in-depth, which was part of the reason I posted for feedback! My coding skills might also be lacking to flesh this out as deeply as I'd like, but I'm willing to give it a whirl. Do people think it would work better as just a 'packet' type item like hot sauce? My thoughts are the work put in should feel like more than just a 'quick add on' to a dish. Would introducing something like calories to food be a good way to showcase cooking so you can see the 'Round's most calorie laden dish eaten" at the end? What do you think would help cooking pop more?