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12-14-08, 08:17 AM
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#1 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Richardson, Texas, United States, GMT-6
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|  Cooking Skill(s)
Something tells me information on Cooking should be provided...
What is likely implemented (a wild guess):
Baking
Frying
Sauteing
Grilling
Roasting
Smoking
Preserving (Salting, Canning, Jarring, Drying)
Boiling
Mixing
What would be ideally implemented:
Allowance for slight variations in recipes.
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12-14-08, 08:54 AM
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#2 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: North Carolina
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| Re: Cooking Skill(s)
oh oh! and when you make anything that requires oil in a pan, make sure that characters with low DEX get burned a lot by hot oil!  | | | | |
01-16-09, 03:57 PM
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#3 | | World Leader Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Georgia, USA
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| Re: Cooking Skill(s)
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Originally Posted by Marswipp  Allowance for slight variations in recipes. | I've wanted to comment on this for a while, but haven't really had anything to say. I (now) only have sort of half an idea, but here you go...
I can see two broad sorts of recipes: general and specific. Specific recipes have exact recipes to follow and a specific name. General recipes may require certain ingredients but would also have one or more "slots" to fill with other things.
So, let's say Cammie Cook is making some sausages. Maybe she'll make Highpass sausages, which are far and wide known to be a mild pork sausage with a very specific blend of fat, salt, and herbs; or maybe she'll make a more general "pork sausage" recipe that requires pork, fat, salt, and, say, three more ingredients. Those ingredient slots might be totally open, depending on the recipe, or they may be categories, like "vegetable" or "spice" or whatever. So, maybe the general pork sausage recipe requires pork, fat, salt, and then has two "herb/spice" slots and one "anything" slot.
The game may then understand it's a "pork sausage" regardless of what's in it and treat all pork sausages the same way. It would be pretty cool if it would label it "Pork Sausage with Mint and Fireflower" (or whatever), so that characters' various tastes might be better RP'd, but that's gravy, really.
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#4 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Richardson, Texas, United States, GMT-6
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| Re: Cooking Skill(s)
That's sort of what I was thinking with the player-created/altered recipes.
One example of a casserole would consist of ham, cheese, noodles, carrots, mushroom soup, onion, garlic, and maybe some other spices.
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02-15-09, 05:38 AM
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| Re: Cooking Skill(s)
Okay, without giving too much away, I would say this ... the cooking recipes are similar in design to those you see in the current version of NWN. What I mean by this is that you have general igredients that require basic components. So let's say you are making a cake ... you need dough so flour (ground from wheat), eggs, sugar and milk. And you have more exquiste recieps that require both the basics, but also require the abstract ingredients. Continuing with our example, let's say you are making a Cherry Cake, you would require the initial ingredients plus Cherry Juice and confectionary sugar instead of just standard sugar.
Rest assured that Rowana, Minerva, Honora are toiling diligently on some VERY creative recipes for the culinary specialist of Layonara. Also, I don't believe that burning yourself with oil will be in the initial release.
Going back through the development log I found this. This should help portray what I was saying above.
Sea Spinach and White Tree Mushroom Stir-Fry - A flavorful sea spinach and
mushroom stir-fry in Kuro sauce.
Kuro sauce has seperate requirements that then become a part of making the Mushroom Stir-Fry.
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02-21-09, 07:28 PM
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| Re: Cooking Skill(s)
At release time, it's rather unlikely that any sort of player-alterable recipes, whether for cooking or any other craft, will be available. To a degree, that is something we have talked about as a possibility, but it is as yet neither designed nor planned to any significant degree.
That said, the scope and breadth of recipes across all crafts will be much more interesting and "full spectrum" than what we have in NWN right now. | | | | |
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| Re: Cooking Skill(s)
Please allow Grubs on a stick. A delicious and nutritious snack anytime!
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