Cooking math

[Boomer Click Bait]

So I am going to start gathering lion meat because it seems to sell for a lot. A YouTube guide was saying not to sell the meat because you can use it to cook this meal I can't remember the name of it jungle something. Anyways, the meal sells for around 50k, but the recipe uses three lion meat. The lion meat sells for 40k each with thousands of back orders. Why would I use the meat to make a meal when the final product sells less than the ingredients? And I can only buy three cooking utensils per month as they're all sold out so I have to use my loyalty points.

[Grizzledorf]

unrelated to the question, i read the title wrong and thought there was some alchemy in the game i was not aware of.

on a serious note, if something is sold out consistently, there is likely a reason for it, it is probably more useful than what the market price it is going for.

do not waste loyalty for cooking utensils, you can make your own utensils.

[-=)V(=-]

Cooking has several levels, you make hamburgers from this meat, which you then use to make meals, and you pack meals in imperial boxes.
Taking into account that you will earn little money on it and only if you collect meat yourself .... the whole thing doesn't make sense.
Conclusion: buy or cook pickled vegetables and make pro imperial boxes from them.
Second option: if you already have a guru in cooking, cook rice food from this new island and pack it in guru boxes because only these rice dishes make sense (they require only 2 cooking, other guru boxes up to 5-6).

[Boomer Click Bait]

I've heard about imperial cooking but no idea what it is or how to do it.

[Phlanka]

Press L processing menu, then look for the icon with a platter and a dome on top that says imperial cuisine, then click on the dish thats available and pack away

Those imperial cuisine boxes weigh a ton. Deliver as many as you want to an Imperial Delivery NPC at Heidel, just adjacent to the southern Stables for silver and imperial cooking medals.

[Uzkniso o.o]

There's tons of guides, on cooking in youtube. Just look one up.

As a beginner, you can't start with lion meat. You need master level cooking to cook lion meat dishes. Learn what meat you can use first.

[Fredericks of Cursewood]

In cooking and processing, you mostly get multiple products from each craft. A quick and dirty way to figure is multiply the final product by 2.5. if hamburgers are trading for 60k, then the value of the craft is 150k. Add up the ingredients and see if they are more or less.

2.5 is very conservative and doesn't account for mastery and the value of rare procs. For most experienced cooks, that number would be a lot closer to 3.5, which would the value around 210K per proc.

Processing at the basic level is similar although it can vary greatly because some recipes will only generate 1. Some recipes will generate 5+ on average.

If you do the simple math, you can filter out the really good and really bad recipes quickly. If it seems close, then go to BDOlytics and punch it through the calculator.

[Corona Scurrae]

depends on your mastery level. I was cooking guru so for each ingredient I spend, I got 2.5x meals from it.

I would suggest you do an excel sheet and then look at how many procs you get at your cooking mastery level.

[Boomer Click Bait]

That's why this game won't grow to a large amount of people imo. Having to make spreadsheets and go outside the game constantly to learn about it is a huge turn off.

[-=)V(=-]

Originally posted by Religion LOL:

That's why this game won't grow to a large amount of people imo. Having to make spreadsheets and go outside the game constantly to learn about it is a huge turn off.

Just bad design, that's all, secondly PA "doesn't like" life skills and that's why it looks the way it does.

[Corona Scurrae]

Originally posted by -=)V(=-:

Originally posted by Religion LOL:

That's why this game won't grow to a large amount of people imo. Having to make spreadsheets and go outside the game constantly to learn about it is a huge turn off.

Just bad design, that's all, secondly PA "doesn't like" life skills and that's why it looks the way it does.

making an excel sheet takes 5 minutes tops but the second part of your comment about pa hating lifeskills, I have to agree.

it's one of the reason I quit the game and never returned. I just randomly dropped here because of crimson desert gameplay trailer. otherwise I haven't touched this game since 2018

[Fredericks of Cursewood]

It's a South Korean game made by South Koreans for South Koreans. South Korea students on average test very well in math standardized test. The Market. Life Skills, and Enhancing require a solid understanding of some higher math skills which most of the rest of the world don't stress enough in their educational systems.

The problem of "bad game design" is that they never dumbed down the game to the rest of the world's standards.

[Corona Scurrae]

Originally posted by Fredericks of Cursewood:

It's a South Korean game made by South Koreans for South Koreans. South Korea students on average test very well in math standardized test. The Market. Life Skills, and Enhancing require a solid understanding of some higher math skills which most of the rest of the world don't stress enough in their educational systems.

The problem of "bad game design" is that they never dumbed down the game to the rest of the world's standards.

friend everyone can make an excel sheet and do the simple math... the rest of what you are seeing is similar to what you experience in stocks. people with knowledge of a company predict their growth or downfall and make a profit.

same applies here but you don't even need that... you just need an excel sheet and maybe an hour or two of your time to understand what makes you silver and what doesn't

[derpenstein]

you don't need to make your own spread sheets just use the site bdolytics

[Corona Scurrae]

Originally posted by derpenstein:

you don't need to make your own spread sheets just use the site bdolytics

yes that site helps too but it wasn't there at the beginning if i remember it correctly

[Nhika]

In general it's good to cook everything you gather.
Only reason you wouldn't is if you don't "like" cooking and do other passive skills, like sailing.
But there's a group out there fully geared, that will grind and buy stuff to cook because.. it's the opposite for them, they don't want to gather anymore and would rather grind and cook.