Cupcake Factory Mini/Refresh
I'm making a retail bakery and yet again have to design around the 3x3 Willy Wonka nightmare that is the Whipped Dream Cupcake Factory. I was excited when they moved cupcakes to stoves last year and disappointed when I saw that the Baking recipes got left behind. Outside retail gameplay, basically half of the baking recipes are unavailable to me because the cupcake factory is too large and incongruent design-wise to fit in with any residential lot.
I get it; if everything was moved to stoves, the cupcake factory would be essentially useless. But the observatory/telescope update a couple years back proves it's not impossible to make a new, smaller object without the larger original losing all appeal/usefulness.
If we're ever going to have an alternative to the cupcake factory, everything can't just be moved to the stoves. Instead:
- Do a refresh of the current cupcake factory
- Make a new base game object that has most, but not all of the same functionality of the original
- (maybe, potentially) Lock all Baking Skill recipes to the Whipped Dream Cupcake Factory and new object and make them no longer available on stoves.
Whipped Dream Cupcake Factory Refresh:
- Increase Fun to 5 and Food Quality to 10, other stats stay the same
- Baking Skill recipes are now free to make, like cupcakes currently are
- Can make up to 3 plates/party size servings at a time (sent to Sim inventory)
- New colors; Ex: clean versions of swatches; clean and used stainless steel
For a new mini cupcake factory, it would be a freestanding commercial bakery oven. The design would be based on the already existing in-game Schmapple line of products. In order to keep the appeal of the current cupcake factory, none of the proposed refresh ideas would be available on the commercial oven. In addition, several features of the current cupcake factory would also be unavailable.
Cupcake Factory Mini aka "Schmapple Commercial Oven:"
- Price: 20,000
- Size: 2x1 (height and length of two counters)
- Food Quality: 10
- Power Consumption Rating: 10
- Reliability: Unbreakable
- +Cooking Skill, +Baking Skill
Differences from current Whipped Dream Cupcake Factory:
- Recipes cost money to make
- Does not raise Fun Need
- No instantaneous cooking: recipes must be prepped on a countertop before being put into the oven