Recipe list should show the function of the individual recipes

[Titch]

It's different because it clears up the ambiguity of what ingredients are going into the recipe if its "Any Oil" or "Any Egg" or what have you. If the player just clicks the icon in the recipe book the game has to use it's discretion if to use Small Eggs or Rhuk Eggs, Fish Oil or Jelly Oil. Using what I suggested the player has proscribed the exact method they want to use to make the final product. So there is no risk of accidentally burning a rare ingredient making a sea cake; and there isn't any ambiguity over which oil IN PARTICULAR gets used. Gamers hate seemingly random exceptions to rules.

[silverflagon]

Nothing wasted if you keep your sea loaf quote full though

[silverflagon]

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.

I prefer to have a choice about what is cooked though, so would your idea cover that Titch?

[delve]

I presume you're still free to cook the old fashioned way. Me? I'd be using the 'one more of those please' button.

[Tolkienfanatic]

Ah, good point, Twitch, I had not taken into account that some recipes can use multiple ingredients.

[silverflagon]

Ah, good point, Twitch, I had not taken into account that some recipes can use multiple ingredients.

cough! I think that you mean 'Titch' TF lol

By the way I am also a Tolkien fan though it did take me three tries to get into the first book And interesting fact, Tolkien loved the UK's Staffordshire countryside and based the Hobbits home on the Countryside around there, and I live 5 miles from the Staffordshire boarder (a useless fact added onto the other fact) lol

[Chibi]

Another fairly useless tidbit  - I read the complete series in the 1012 page single-book version in about half a week.  Overdosing on Tolkien lol

[Nava]

Mmmm, I want to read LoTR and the Hobbit again... it's been too long.

[silverflagon]

Another fairly useless tidbit  - I read the complete series in the 1012 page single-book version in about half a week.  Overdosing on Tolkien lol

Damn that is overdosing on reading, how the heck did you find the time to sleep and take in the story fully

[Chibi]

By reading all the time - I read in the car, while eating breakfast, and in the evening. I'm a fairly fast reader (about half a minute per page). 

[Xiagan]

Fast reading ftw! I once read an 800 pages book in one day - but that really was crazy and it was in the holidays, so I wasn't distracted by anything.

[silverflagon]

I was a fast reader at one time, finishing an average sized book in one day was nothing but somehow I just can't class Tolkien as a fast read? I was reading before I started school and I was so adicted to it that I would read the cerial packets over and over while eating (Books were not allowed at the dinning table!)

I have found that I still can't just sit and eat even now..

Damn have we deviated or what lol

[Tolkienfanatic]

I've read LoTR in a week as well and re-read it annually.  I also have a massive collection of Tolkien literature, perhaps I'll post a thread on it someday...

But anyway back to the topic at hand, I was thinking that if there was a way to prioritize what ingredients would be used over others in an Auto-Cook feature then that would remove the problem that Titch referred to.  For example, if you are making Hot Soup, you would obviously want to use Fish Oil before you use Eel Oil or Jelly Oil.

Of course, the "Cook Again" idea that Titch had is also a good one