Baking Skill Should Be Basegame

"haisin;c-18344599" wrote:
Many good ideas in this thread. I would love baking becoming base game and I would love to see Get to Work refresh, so that if baking becomes base game the pack gets some other content added to it. I don't own Get to Work and I'm not going to buy it unless it gets a good refresh.

I do own GTW, because I wanted the active careers, however, I'd also like to see more patches for GTW. EA seems to think that older packs don't need patches, just because they come out with newer ones. However, to have better cross compatibility with new packs, they should update older packs. For instance, I'd like to see GTW overhauled to expand upon careers and baking in the following manner:

1. More active career updates for new packs to introduce more playable professions like GTW.
2. More career branches, to better explore features offered by new packs like discover university.
3. An overhaul to baking to really simulate the patisserie experience, for instance, cake decorating (not just garnishing dishes), a patisserie career branch for the culinary career, or even a freelance patisserie career.
4. An update to the cooking system in general to add compatibility with cottage living fresh ingredients and home chef prepped ingredients. The fact that once you purchase these packs, you still can't use ingredients for older recipes from previous packs is a letdown (unless you use mods of course).
5. Better baking appliances. The cupcake machine is huge, ugly, and doesn't fit with gameplay. I mean, in a real bakery or cooking school, they'd use a double wall oven for baking, not some ugly contraption. The stand mixer from home chef was a good idea.
6. More recipe variety. I mean, there is 1 recipe for macaroons, 3 recipes for bagels, and 8 recipes for cupcakes. The game is slow to add new harvestables and most cooking recipes are for homestyle cooking and not baking. You get a lot of pie recipes with cottage living, but seriously, they need more diversity. For instance, snowy escape should have come with lots of baking recipes and not just ramen. Many Asian countries are known for their confectionaries.
6. Better utilization of collectibles in the science career and other careers.