Recipe list should show the function of the individual recipes

[Alphasoldier]

Naw, Auto-cook is still something that's AND too complicated AND too simple, which ain't fun.
Food sorting would be absolutely awesome, Seeing I'm always searching for what I want to eat.

[RobertWalker]

Just for my two cents, I always thought it was strange that the raw ingredients and completed food items weren't separated. I suppose the reasoning would be that more advanced recipes typically involve combining one or two raw ingredients with an already completed food item, and there is that oddball Swordfish Steak.

The other thing I thought would be kind of cool is allowing you to combine two recipes if you have three cooking slots available. Let me explain using letters in place of ingredients to avoid spoilers. Let's say you want to make food item D, and the "recipe path" is to first cook ingredients A and B, then take the result and cook it with C to get D. In other words:

(A + B) + C = D

What I'm suggesting is that the game should, if you have three slots available, allow you to do this:

A + B + C = D

...thereby allowing you to produce D with one cook instead of two.

The only problem there is that there could be some instances where that would be ambiguous. In this case, A + B + C means (A + B) + C, but it could also mean A + (B + C) or (A + C) + B. It may be all the same in math, but I don't know if there are any recipes in Aquaria that conflict in this way.

[Glamador]

Well, I often wanted something along those lines as well.  But you make a valid point.  I think I'll check and see if there are those kinds of conflicts.

[Alphasoldier]

Actually, I think the only reason is is that there will be more recipe entries, which are pretty much useless, which would ALSO mean, if you get the legendary cake, that you would also know the recipe of every ingredient below that, so I don't find it usefull at all.
But that's just my opinion.

[Hiro]

Auto cook....kind kills it. But seeing what stuff does if you look in the recipe book is pretty good. One could argue that if you really cared you could just remember (thats what I did!) but meh.

[Alec]

The other thing I thought would be kind of cool is allowing you to combine two recipes if you have three cooking slots available. Let me explain using letters in place of ingredients to avoid spoilers. Let's say you want to make food item D, and the "recipe path" is to first cook ingredients A and B, then take the result and cook it with C to get D. In other words:

(A + B) + C = D

What I'm suggesting is that the game should, if you have three slots available, allow you to do this:

A + B + C = D

...thereby allowing you to produce D with one cook instead of two.

The only problem there is that there could be some instances where that would be ambiguous. In this case, A + B + C means (A + B) + C, but it could also mean A + (B + C) or (A + C) + B. It may be all the same in math, but I don't know if there are any recipes in Aquaria that conflict in this way.

Yeah, I tried adding that at one point, and it quickly got too complicated for its own good.

[Sirensongstress]

I don't like the (A + B) + C thing... sometimes you have to cook things in different ways and then add them together.  Would you want to make a steak that has carmelized onions on it and yet just throw them together and cook them all at once?  Some things would be burned, some things wouldn't be done, etc. in situations like this.  Like... if you're making a soup, sometimes you put some of the veggies in last, so they don't get turned into nasty mush while your meat is all nice and juicy and tender after cooking for like... 3 hours.  Also there's always the fact that some foods aren't safe to eat until cooked a certain way, or prepared a certain way (like Fugu (blowfish) must be cut a certain way to avoid toxic parts of the fish, or you could die).  Also what was already said.  I do still like knowing what things are for when I'm looking in the recipe book, but most of the time (now anyway) I just remember.  Probably because I've played through like three times now, and explored quite a bit as well.

[Danger Mouse]

Ooo Nice Gravedig. Was an interesting read. Thanx

[Chibi]

Man the last time this happened ... was around the time I joined ... maybe they come in waves? _awkward I don't mind this series though: I've never seen this thread, and it's pretty interesting. 

[Sirensongstress]

Well, I've been looking at responses to threads I've posted in - it just happens I don't get to come around too often (I'm currently procrastinating on doing final papers and projects, etc >.>)... so I love to answer on these anyway, even if they're sorta dead/dying.

Besides, some of these are really nice threads   I know the new version is out/being beta tested, but that doesn't mean I can't still speculate, hehe.

Anyways, happy playing, and off to do projects for me!

[Tolkienfanatic]

Just to throw in my extremely late two cents here, I think an auto-cook function would be awesome.

[Titch]

I've been thinking, instead of an auto-cook feature. How about a once more/all at once button. So if you cook something, when you click 'once more' as long as you have the same set of ingredients Naija automatically cooks another of the same thing, you can keep clicking it to repeat as long as you have all the stuff you put in the first recipe. 'All at once' is similar, but creates the maximum possible/allowed with the ingredients you used. You would have to throw in a warning for '?' recipes, it would suck using the all at once button and accidentally use a bunch of ingredients to make 8 sea loaves. It would save time and wouldn't take away from the magic of cooking.

[Xiagan]

I like this idea.

[Chibi]

Yes, it seems like a fairly foolproof solution to RobertWalker's point.

[Tolkienfanatic]

I like the idea, Titch, but I do not see how it is all that different from going to your recipe list and being able to make whatever you want simply by clicking on the entries (providing you have the proper ingredients, of course).