recipe mastery

[AlphaGodith]

personal opinion; it is bogus that you are expected to make something up to 10 times before the game will even let you see the effects in the journal. getting the recipe exactly right should be enough. if there must be a mastery mechanic, it should increase the effectiveness of the given buff, or let you use fewer/lower quality ingredients, or something like that. REWARD people for doing well, don't punish them for trying.

also being able to get totally different dishes even when you are putting in the exact recipe for something else is completely asinine. i get that if you are doing trial and error and DON'T know the exact ratio and ingredients that you could accidentally make other things, but when what you're putting in the pot is THE recipe? you should ONLY get that dish.

as it stands the cooking system is entirely un-fun.

[AlphaGodith]

Originally posted by peajay64:

It kind of discourages cooking tbh, after failing to cook my Jurassos Pie 7+ times when I only wanted 2 of them, then finding out I need to cook it 8 more times before it's 'guaranteed' I will make the pie 'correctly'. How'd they mess up something like cooking this badly-

agree. a lot of the recipes that have such high mastery requirements also require large quantities of rare items, like 10 truffles per, and those can only be foraged in the wild with a dino during one season, no buffs to increase yield or anything, which is RIDICULOUS to expect people to do with trial and error.

i'm trying to fill out my cookbook and other than it being an expensive pain in the butt it was pretty consistent, until i tried pasta a la triassea and pasta carnotaur, which the ingredients listed on my cheat sheet seem to be more likely to result in plain pasta for some god forsaken reason. seriously how is the exact recipe more likely to give me a completely different dish than the one it's for??

[AlphaGodith]

Originally posted by peajay64:

I kept getting raspberry and blueberry pies for my Jurassos Pie recipe. It got to the point where I saved my game after getting 1 pie so I could guarantee getting 2. You should not have to fricken save scum for cooking-

seriously! that is insane! i guess i got lucky with mine. now that i'm getting the wrong pastas even when i use the exact recipe, i can't imagine anyone enjoying this system. it's such ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that you can just randomly get the totally wrong item like that even when you're doing it EXACTLY right.