Chef Archive

Hi I am a master BE and I was thinking I might become a chef so I can make some nice enhanced food . My only question is, is it worth it?

Though I hate to dissuade someone from my favorite profession, if *I* were a master BE then I'd pick tailor as an accompanying profession.

Think about it ... would you rather make a muffin that lasts 600 seconds instead of 340 or would you like to make an undershirt that adds +30 to your rifle accuracy, or +20 to your combat medic skills, etc.?

The food turns out good, but its hard to sell at the cost it took to produce the BE comp.

Thats the problem. People are willing to pay 15-20k for a shirt, but won't be paying even 5k for a piece of food with 4-5 uses.

O i agree that being a tailor is a much better compliment to BE... however I always liked chef , and I was just wondering is the Enhanced food *much* better than the regular food.

The Advanced comps do a nice job.

I tried to introduce some food with the duration components (they are by far the most marketable BE food tissue), and no one was willing to pay for the increase...they need to make the BE components much less expensive to make, by making them use less resources (maybe 50-75% less), or making them use only sampleable materials instead of milk, fish, and eggs.

I made some bivolis with the tissue that requires fish...not the highest one..middle I guess? I sold them for 1k more eachthan my normal price which I gave directly back to the BE. So the real questionfor me is, what is a reasonable price for a BE to charge for the tissues. Im not sure Id want to fish for 2 days to make 25k...maybe...I just dunno. They were much slower selling than my normal bivolis but they did sell.

I recommend MicroNutrient supplements, 31% duration bonus. They're fairly easy to make, relatively cheap, and can boost your Bivoli well over 1200s

I just made some with those How much are you paying for tissues and how much of a markup do you add to the price of your regular bivolis when they contain these tissues?

I haven't set a price yet, but I did pump up my final price by 10%

I just added 300 per stack for it...will see what happens I guess. I have no idea what a BE would charge for them.

at a generousaverage of about7 credits per unit, the upper level tissues cost about 550-800 credits to make, meaning that the lowest you would likely see them for sale in any duration would be around 1k (give or take). there are only two levels for tissues and the lower ones cost only 1/4 less to make so estimate 800 as the lowest you are likely to see them for sale. these prices are very low though. i have been known to sell clothing tissues (which generally cost the same amounts of resources as food tissues) for 1500 to 3000 each for high endbecause i often have to pay 10 to 30 credits per unit for creature resourcesbecause itry to make the very best tissues i can.

i truly wish food tissues were viable, but i just dont think they will be until people start caring about food. and i mean no offense to the chef community, but im sure you guys know that most people just dont seethe value of food. until people care enough about food buffs and their stats, a marginal difference in effect will not be worth the cost you would have to charge them for the food.