Can we get an overhaul to cooking already?
As you know, Fishing and Gardening have had overhauls/updates where they significantly improved (at least in my opinion) both skills. With cooking, currently, the food quality does not make sense! ...
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"@Uzone27;c-17274109" wrote:
I'm definitely on the same page with the OP
To simplify things, drop the stove and fridge scores. (They never made sense anyway)
Give them an environmental buff and stick with the reliability metric instead.( If your stuff tastes like fridge it's because you left it in there too long silly Sim)
I'm not sure bumping failure states at the low end is a great idea, (We don't want to discourage noobs from trying their hand at cooking do we?)
However the quality gradient should definitely be a bit deeper than just normal or (practically) inedible.
At the higher end there is definitely room for more gradients tied to the quality of the ingredients (and skill level of course)
As far as mood modifiers. I'm not certain those should be linked to the quality metric.
I think the way they are doing it now suffices. (New recipe options pop up when in a specific mood)
Shopping for ingredients? Sure if there are certain recipes that can only be achieved if you go to the store...that could work
Aging of ingredients that sit in your fridge? ...that's an obvious oversight.
A perfect apple stays perfect in the fridge forever and ever and ever and ever...(I exploit this all the time)
I'd also like to add cooking competitions...anyone ever play Star Ocean?
They did a great job with cooking in that game.
Great ideas Sigz05!
I'm not sure what this means. Sims are rarely in a negative emotional state, so burning the food wouldn't even be that common. But it would be a fun gameplay element to have and further tie in emotions to cooking, making sims feel more realistic. I know of the special recipes, but those are only for flirty, energised and playful emotions. Noobs need not be scared, my sims in TS3 burned many foods and I made them eat them :D
Most of all I would really like fresh ingredients to matter and food qualities to have different impacts on sims, it's only logical. ;)
Freetime for TS2 had cooking competitions. They were a fun little thing to do. I wish we had them as well.
As a matter of fact I wish they introduced a table where sims can hold various "craftable" contests. Woodworking contests, cooking contests, photography and painting contests, based on the quality of the craftable, skill of the sim, and a little randomness if they are the same across all contestants. Maybe relationship with the judge could also be at play.
