A few suggestions to Cakes & Cookies

[Kath Gray]

So, I recently sent you guys the survey you requested on the game main menu, but after I played the game like crazy the last couple of days (mainly Cakes and Cookies, by big fave by far, now closely followed by the Pizza dlc) I had a few more ideas I'd like to suggest, and decided to write a new post with all of them. I know some of them may be very hard to implement, but I'm just gonna... what is the english expression again? "throw it all on the wall and see what sticks" or something like that XD
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Firstly, the most absurd of all, probably, I'd REALLY love if you guys someday decided to develop a Coffee shop DLC for the game. I say that because since forever I had been waiting for a game in the style of Cooking Simulator, and this game had been on my wishlist since the day I finally found a promising result in my searches; after that, you guys launched the Cakes and Cookies, and it was another dream come true. And another kind of game I've been looking for like crazy is a nice Coffee Shop game on this style, so... well, hope's the last one to die, I guess.
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That aside, onward to the games we have:

- From the original game, as I have already suggested in the general discussion, I (as well as some other players) would HIGHLY appreciate a career mode option for disabling time limits for the dishes. We like to serve the clients the dishes they ask for, but having such a strict time to finish them can be kinda stressing for casual players that just want to relax with a good cooking game, and as such that option would go a huge way towards making me play the original game more.
Additionally, having the option to check the recipes on mobile like on the DLCs would be amazing! A lot of people including me already suggested it, but a small reminder is never too much.

- From the Cakes and Cookies - as I said previously, my big favorite from the bunch - I have a bunch of either questions or suggestions, seeing as I tried many ways to do a few things and came to the conclusion it wasn't possible, but I may have done it wrong.

Firstly, I think it'd be very nice if when you broke and egg, instead of the shells flying away and the inside of the egg staying in your hand, you could pick a container to drop the egg in and the shells remained in your hand, like when you cook irl. The shells can be very messy to gather after you use a couple of them or more, and I think that would be a nice solution for this.

Secondly, I'd love if we could use the jellys and custards and stuffs on the custom frosting/icing to add new flavors to them. Just changing the color is nice, but having the option of adding a few extra things would be amazing to help our quest to satisfy or costumers or to make something we ourselves would love to eat.

Also, I think it'd be amazing if we could drip some of the liquids and spices into our cupcakes and other pastries and it added to the flavor. I think I finished two or three full bottles of honey trying to get it to work on my cookies. I know it may be complex to add with a phisics system and stuff, but maybe we could just use a similar texture from the (icing, I think?) on donuts - it surely looked very liquid and pretty much not solid, and with a change of colors, it would be basically done. Same for the spices - maybe it could work like the dustings! I mean, I certainly tried to throw some lemon zest on my cupcakes a few days ago. Not sure if it'd taste good, since I'm not exactly a baker irl, but definitely seemed interesting in my mind.

Now onto the more practical stuff,

I think it'd be nice to have a container similar to the frosting/icing one, but for the dustings. Like, you use your scoop in there and grab it instead of having to keep turning around and walking. It's a very small thing, but it'd be very appreciated.

Also, if we could buy upgraded versions of the scoop and spatula that were able to hold more icing/frosting/dusting/toppings, it'd be amazing! Like six servings instead of four, or even eight afterwards. It could be super expensive, but I'd certainly invest in something like this in game!

And finally, I'd love if for the filling process, we could - well, firstly use custom fillings, like sauces we made or other liquids (maybe melted chocolate? I'd love that! Which btw, I would also like to be able to use custom sauces and liquids as frosting/icing, again SPECIALLY melted chocolate, my favorite thing to cover cupcakes on irl) - but that aside, I think it'd be super practic if we could use the middle button of the mouse to select more cupcakes and just... fill them in one process. Not even instant, but just not having to click on each of them individually - click once and watch the filling gun to the process for you. I love to cook cupcakes and cookies more than cakes in this game, and as such this process is one of the most boring ones for me, so that's a personal suggestion.

And that's it, I think. I know it's a lot of thing, but I hope you guys can at least take a look at it and maybe consider one or two of them. I really love your games and every improvement is only gonna make me more addicted.
Anyways, thanks for listening to me!

[Scifiwriterguy]

The baking ideas put forth here are just about what I came here to say.

• The "custom" icings/glazes offer very little customization, and with the hashtag system the game uses, that's crippling unless you want to stick with the default options. Yes, you can add vanilla or similar to custom icing and get a little bit of flavor (aromatic and something else), but that's still a serious disadvantage compared to the default options and, I hasten to point out, not documented anywhere. But nearly nothing is documented, so I guess that shouldn't be much of a shock.

•Psychotic egg-cracking behavior needs a fix. I so enjoy having to gather up 50 egg halves from the floor.

•Topping/dusting containers and larger spatula/scoop options: yes please. Especially the scoops. Needing four reloads to do one cake is annoying.

•On the subject of fillings: good ideas, but I'd also say that the filling process itself takes too long. I can fill similar pastries in real life in about half the time, and I'm not even a professional. I frequently don't use the filling gun, hashtags be damned, because it just takes too long.