Changees to Cooking
1) Change Recipe Book into Ingredient Book. Ingredient Book records the properties of every ingredient you used in cooking. That'd be more useful.
2) Allow only one food buff to be active at a time. Would make us think what to cook.
3) Make upgraded cooking stations that increase the number of ingredients per dish. For a sense of progression.
4) Create the following system:
- Every Ingredient is given a class. Meat, Fish, Fruit, Veggies, etc.
- The type of food is determined by the combination of classes. Meat+Meat=Meat Plate, Meat+Veggies=Stew, etc.
- One universal sprite for each class combo. No more having to do thousands of sprites for each individual ingredient combo.
- Name of the dish is given prefixes based on the individual ingredients (just like right now) and the ingredients themselves are listen in the tooltip.
- The above would streamline the whole process and reduce developer workload.