It would be extremely beneficial if the names of the food we're cooking signified it's changes.
This way if the lights aren't right, or the users computer/monitor/tv isn't that great, they can still cook a decent meal. Also, snake is nearly impossible to tell when it's finished; it's either done or burnt.
@Church6633
It is intended to not have name cooked tier on the food for immersion.
There is 2 way to know if your food is ready, visial AND audio. When you are used to it it's easy to tell just by the sound that it's ready eaven in the darkest area.
@church6633 I have always my phone next to me and use a timer...
Fish - 45 seconds
Trophy - 90 seconds
Meat (pig, chicken, shark, snake) - 1 minute
Big meat (kraken, meg) - 2 minutes
This way I never burned anything and you can do other stuff that time...
Just look at it. Are the eyes white, is the skin brown?
I think cooking could use improvements in other ways. Make the pans like a barrel and so you can place multiple ingredients in to it make a dish, also, let me cook more than one piece of meat in a skillet at a time please.
Edit: I 100% agree about the snake though.
@church6633
This would make it too easy. Cooking would require no skill, because it would literally tell you when it's done.
I, too, like the idea it you need to rely on appearance and sound. However, I see no harm in the OP's suggestion if your own Hunters' Call level was less than 10. Once, you get to 10, it could revert to the "no hint" behaviour. There is a tiny risk of someone using an "alt" (or less experienced crewmate) to do all the cooking, but I think this would be more bothersome than it was worth, and no one would bother.
EDIT: I was unaware of the chat wheel descriptions of food, and its state, as described by @Lt-Swag-Johnson below. That's all we need, I think. I retract my suggestion. :-)
@surveyorpete
I mean, I use the chat wheel as a check. I'm never sure of myself, and I sometimes go too early, but it helps me to know. That's all the hand holding I need for cooking.
@church6633 said in Improvements to Cooking:
It would be extremely beneficial if the names of the food we're cooking signified it's changes.
- uncooked [named meat]
- raw [named meat]
- cooked [named meat]
- burnt [named meat]
This way if the lights aren't right, or the users computer/monitor/tv isn't that great, they can still cook a decent meal. Also, snake is nearly impossible to tell when it's finished; it's either done or burnt.
Open up the Pirate Chat with said piece of food in hand:
