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Thread: Food Barrels?

Buugli
Tue Feb 03, 2004 2:42 pm
#1
Thanks to the "Case for Barrels" thread for confirming my thoughts on theusefulness of larger drinks containers in stretching expensive ingredients (BE tissues) to more uses.

However I don't see containers for the entree and dessert lines. If containers are good for the new drinks, why doesn't the same logic extend to the new foods? They, too, can take BE tissues, right?

On a different note - the Friday Feature announcing the patch 6 changes informed our customers that chefs can now experiment 4 different factors, and provided some comparison of what a FULLY EXPERIMENTED product was like. Erm, they are giving us 30 more experimentation points? How many of you are currently able to experiment fully the 3 factors of the old foods?

Confusion...confusion...what am I missing here?


FoxWanderer
Tue Feb 03, 2004 2:59 pm
#2

If I'm not mistaken, the added benefit of the containers was given to accomplish two goals:


1) Eliminate the mineral components in every single drink (which which were conceptually added as a "glass" or "flask"). These resources didn't have the right attributes (no PE, FL on most of them), so they were hurting the experimentation resultsfor all drinks.


2) Offset the added complexity of the containers in the manufacturing process. They were adding an extra step (to take care of the metal requirements in a quick and uniform manner) to the process, so they made it somewhat beneficial.


Since the foods don't have a widespread use of mineral resources, they opted to correct the schematics individually. So food will require one less step to craft than drinks, but don't allow you to conserve your HQ resources by using alot of grind stuff instead.





Aurin Huntsbridge
Chef/Artisan/Surveyor
(Still a Ranger at heart)
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