Family recipes
I've not yet fully explored this great feature, except having a few families create a recipe without really seeing it in a bigger picture. These recipes are not only brilliant ways to "cheat/comfort" household members, but I will use them to add some uniqueness to some of my families. They already focus on different ways through life, and I welcome more ways to add to this. Would love to learn how you found ways to benefit from this feature. I might have missed some info...
Creating the recipe seems pretty straight forward. Learning how to unlock the special touch to add to the recipe helps planning this all. Like, for the family that focus a lot on skills and education, I must wait until a household member actually graduates, because a graduation seems required to unlock the "Academic Ace" special touch.
So I guess the first step will be focusing on unlocking the desired touch? Normally I will choose a recipe that requires a certain cooking level, because I want a certain job to be done before you can learn the family recipe. If you must first reach Cooking lvl 6, it needs to be a set goal - at least in my game most sims won't be that good at Cooking.
One detail I'm not sure that I got right is whether also the sim learning the recipe must beforehand have access to the special touch? Or is the special touch in the recipe once and for all, and only the sim creating the recipe will need to have it unlocked?
I really love this feature. Except from a very few special touches, I think they will be quite useful during several generations and a way to make families diverse. I also might create recipes that can be sold in cafees etc. By placing a group dish in a "refrigerate display" other households can visit any community lot to eat from it, won't even need to be an owned business. I'm not sure if the effect from a special touch will be restricted to household members or to the home lot, though, but I hope anyone eating it gains the effect. Like if you get ill, visit the "Healthy food café" to recover faster by eating their special dish including the Home Remedy touch.
Wanna share how you use the feature? Did you find smart ways to benefit from it? Or did you create the recipe, and then never served it again?
