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Hi,

I'm in need of more crafting so thought i'd try chef this time.

In order to distinguish myself in the market i thought that BE enhanced foods for filling might go down well.

a. Can the foods like brandy be brought down sufficiently to make this worthwhile?

b. Is this a silly idea and doomed to failure?

I'm intrigued by the BE enhancements, and unsure on how to use them, i'm guessing most food is currently improved with nutritional things.. ? Also what is a "good" BE nutritional enhacnement for mlow, med and large ones ? I'm confussled

Thanks

Blund

Well, it depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you're just looking to stack more doses of the same buff into the stomach, you're better off just using a nutrition additive. For example, a good quality medium nutrition additive (let's call it 85) almost doubles the buff size (1.85 times, to be exact). You would need a good quality heavy filling additive to squeeze in more doses to equal the nutritionally enhanced buff.

Filling additives do allow the consumer to ingest a larger variety of foods at once, though. With a good medium filling additive and a few experimentation points, you can get Brandy/Accaragm/Garrmorl to 33 filling, allowing you drink one of each for around +200 to the six Mind/Action stats and +160ish to the three Health stats (Garrmorl is lower because its resources lack PE).

Filling additives also have a bigger effect on food/drinks that start with a large filling (it's a percentage decrease). Foods with a large filling but short duration (Fizz pudding, Flameout) could be reused more often if the stomach doesn't fill as much on each dose.

It also might be a desirable benefit for Bespin Port. Since that only affects the next experiment, a crafter could take more doses of a filling-enhanced port, spreading their experimentation points out more.

The BE tissue ranges are included in the revamp food chart (linked to in the "Read this" sticky). I'd say a "good" tissue would be one at the 75-90% point of the range.

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Kriles Ch'artoff , Chilastra server
Master Chef (retired)
Currently doing....stuff

The bonues usually don't compare very well. Like Sciguy said if your going for the idea of just taking more of the same thing, filling additives are a waste. Nutrition is cheaper for you to make and provides a much bigger bonus.

However if your going for the idea of being able to eat more things but buff size isn't that important filling would be a good thing. The issue with this one though is that very few people would tend to go this route. BE food is expensive. They would be getting regular food buffs at BE prices. If the filling additives did more this idea would change, but right now the light and medium additive IMO are a waste except for very very rare circumstances. Heavys finally get close to 50% reduction.

The tissues just aren't balanced well IMO. The bonus of the nutrition far outweights the bonus of all the others to most people.

Amandil Morier - Tempest - Master Chef