Chef Archive

Before I state my idea, let me say I know very little about the profession. I've heard you have it very hard, and very few of your foods are useful (useful ones - tatooine sunburn etc). I've only ever used it, myself. Please don't hate me because I'm ignorant

Perhaps people should need to eat food. On the loading screens, it says "No one needs to eat food...but". As a result, only the very best of your foods sell (again, tatooine sunburn), and when people do buy them, its by the crate load.

Imagine everyone had to eat food to live, or at least stay healthy. Maybe if you didn't eat one day, yourHAM would decrease by 50hp, or your secondary stats would decrease a little. After 2 days if you still hadn't ate, you'd have lost 100 ... etc. Perhaps after a week if you hadn'thad anything to eat, you'd die (of starvation).

This would give chefs a more important role in the game. Part of your job would be to feed the masses. I'm sure some people would buy 10 crates of 1 food and just eat that every single day, but I'd like to try something different now and again. Chefs could sell some of their lesser items just for the fun of it. Ontop of that, it mightmakecantina's a little more lively.Of course some people would buy crates of 1 type of food and eat that the whole time, but I wouldn't mind some variety.

Again, its just an idea from an ignorant swordsman

Good idea but imagine the out-cry from players. "OMG, you lied to us!! We have to eat food now!! I hate this game now!" (of course this is a blanket generalisation in regards to just people who would have a cry about it). Great idea to help bring chefs into one of the most wanted professions (probably). Im just hitting Novice chef now and plan to be a chef as my chosen profession so anything like this would be welcome. hehe

Just educating the general crowd that food can greatly buff your character should be one of the most important things to do for SOE. Just a short in game email or something "Remember, food can great enhance your stats/skills". People would then at least attempt to read up on it and see exactly how food can enhance their stats. Making it so people have to eat food would probably then make it that players can access food easily and not really help chefs out as far as I can see.

All gone. Nothing to see now. Bye Bye Ahazi most of you guys were cool

LOL a little too much humility there...

This is an idea that has been presented a lot...it's smart, logical, and would improve the immersion trying to be captured...therefore it won't ever happen. I played EQ for 4 years and one thing I enjoyed in that game was the fact you had to eat. No food or water for a long enough time actually impaired your actions. Then when SOE finally got around to making stat foods, the baking profession (master baker on 3 chars, GM on 2), food and drink became exciting. Granted certain classes only wanted certain foods to help with mana pools or HP...but there was a nice variety and food was actually consumed over time.

If SWG can have item decay, we should be able to consume naturally...as well as eat or drink something special. I would love to see a whole line of non-stat foods that took nearly nothing for resources that could comprise the domestic arts line in artisan and then all stat foods would be chef only. It would make a lot more sense then...