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Cooking Career (Hearthfire version)

HEARTHFIRE IS REQUIRED.

A simple mod designed to improve some role playing options for players.

This mod simply improves the value of all cooked foods. The general goal was to make sure the value of the meal not only covered the cost of the base ingredients required, but also added a bit on top to represent a profit margin that a cook would put on his food.

Example:

A normal Pheasant Roast is valued at 4 gold.
However: Salt (2 gold) plus the value of pheasant breast (3 gold) comes to 5 gold. No normal cook would bother making this to sell because there is no profit. Therefore i simply double the total ingredient value and add a bit, raising the value to 12 gold.

I wont bother listing all price increases, but they arent serious or game breaking. The only dramatic increase in value is with Elsweyr Fondue. Because it uses expensive Moon Sugar (50 gold), ive increased the value up from 3 gold to 120 gold. This sort of includes the risk associated with using illegal drugs as an ingredient.

IMPORTANT NOTE: I would love feedback on any problems. Due to the unpredictable levels of peoples characters, im not 100% sure that low level people might still struggle to get profits, especially if they buy all the ingredients. I often play a hunter character, so gathering raw meats is an even better way to increase profit margins.

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Players should now find that a career as a chef is now possible, since profits can be made. I prefer to make simple mods like this which give options for people's imaginations and role playing instincts to take advantage of.

After some play testing ive also found that the rough rule ive used to increase value even works well in the face of having poor speechcraft or merchants simply not paying top dollar for food. For example: Something ive valued at 12 gold might only get an offer of 7 gold from a merchant. This value is elss than its value, but still covers the total ingredient value. This gives you room to improve your speechcraft, etc etc. Just thought id add this little not in as a FYI.

A version is uploaded for people who dont have Hearthfire.

Enjoy.