I was thinking a bit about custome recipes lately.
Negative FEP could be introduced, for culinary purposes. Let me explain.
People can mix up to 4 ingredients in a dish. This would require an oven, and a new pottery item, a
baking dish.
4 ingredients can be put into a baking dish, to create many combinations of food.
Prepared foods can also be used as ingredients. So, you can put sausages into a dish if you'd like, or bread.
Both raw and roast meat can be used. Raw meat's could be assigned negative FEP's to make a difference, or use the same FEP value as thier roast counterparts.
Each food item retains it's normal FEP as we know it now.
However, specifically for baking purposes, some foods get a new FEP, that's a 'negative' for a FEP type.
When you add this kind of food to a dish, if there's any of the FEP present in it, for which the added food has a negative, this FEP will be negated from the dish.
Basic example.
Say, we're gonna make a dish from pumpkins, which I'll leave unchanged for this example, and taproot, which I give the -AGI FEP for this example.
Putting 2 pumpkins and 2 rustroots into the baking dish, and putting it in the oven, would result in a dish that gives CON only, since the AGI from the 2 pumpkins has been negated by the -AGI from the 2 rustroots.
Basic example #2
Putting a ring of brodgar, a piece of roast sturgeon, a taproot (-AGI for this example), and a piece of butter (which I give -STR for this example),
would result in a dish giving PSY only.
The negative FEP is all or nothing. It removes a FEP from one ingredient completely, regardless of it's FEP value.
The FEP value of the dish I leave open for discussion, but it shouldn't be more than the sum of it's ingredients, since being able to make FEP specific food is an advantage. For this same reason I think that a dish should fill more hunger bar than the sum of it's ingredients.
The final quality of a dish should take cooking skill, ingredients, oven, fuel and baking dish quality into account.
When the dish is finished, it comes out of the oven oven called 'dish'. You can rightclick to name it, as you can do with keys now. Ideally, the game would remember the name you give to any specific recipe, so you don't need to name the same recipe over and over again.
Personally, I'd love to see the markets get flavoured with Bottleneck Burritos, WV Wraps, Moria Muffins, Diamondfire Dishes and more.
