cutting up tuna and crab

[mewkus]

I just started baking with a new toon of mine and when she got into her 90s I did the trophy quest. As part of it, you need to make grilled tuna and grilled crab. So, I went to the Abysmal Sea and fished some up. I caught a 12lb tuna right off the bat. Put it in my mixing bowl and cut it into 12 one lb tunas. Then I caught an 8 pounder. Opened up my mixing bowl again and noticed that I only knew how to cut up a 12 pound tuna and had no idea how to cut up an 8 pounder.

I can understand the game logic in this. They're different recipes and the game doesn't see them linked to each other. But, from an immersion point of view, once you learn how to cut up a 12 pound tuna, it would make sense that you'd at least know how to cut up any smaller tuna and wouldn't have to go and 'learn' it all over again.

Same with the crabs as well.

[Gorse]

I just started baking with a new toon of mine and when she got into her 90s I did the trophy quest. As part of it, you need to make grilled tuna and grilled crab. So, I went to the Abysmal Sea and fished some up. I caught a 12lb tuna right off the bat. Put it in my mixing bowl and cut it into 12 one lb tunas. Then I caught an 8 pounder. Opened up my mixing bowl again and noticed that I only knew how to cut up a 12 pound tuna and had no idea how to cut up an 8 pounder.

I can understand the game logic in this. They're different recipes and the game doesn't see them linked to each other. But, from an immersion point of view, once you learn how to cut up a 12 pound tuna, it would make sense that you'd at least know how to cut up any smaller tuna and wouldn't have to go and 'learn' it all over again.

Same with the crabs as well.

However they are different recipes, so doing what you are talking about would involve extra code writing. Just spend 30 minutes or so fishing there and you will end up getting most if not all of them.

If it really bugs you, then don't go foraging in GoD zones either. =)



Gorse

[Roanne]

Do not speak of game immersion when we will al soon have the "feature" to whip out our Pokemon decks mid realtime "immersion" and toss around some cards. Among the worst ideas ever from an immersion perspective. Maybe it will at leasts gets people to pour money in the SOE coffers as its intended.

[Mondrivun]

Roanne,

I was running through the options (alt O) this weekend.. one nice feature SOE implemented was the Decline All Challenges to their card game. I wonder, since it's a flag, if SOE is looking at how many people actually have that flag active. It will be activated on all my toons when they log in.

Magic: The Addiction was enough of a card game for me.

[Aldier]

I just started baking with a new toon of mine and when she got into her 90s I did the trophy quest. As part of it, you need to make grilled tuna and grilled crab. So, I went to the Abysmal Sea and fished some up. I caught a 12lb tuna right off the bat. Put it in my mixing bowl and cut it into 12 one lb tunas. Then I caught an 8 pounder. Opened up my mixing bowl again and noticed that I only knew how to cut up a 12 pound tuna and had no idea how to cut up an 8 pounder.

I can understand the game logic in this. They're different recipes and the game doesn't see them linked to each other. But, from an immersion point of view, once you learn how to cut up a 12 pound tuna, it would make sense that you'd at least know how to cut up any smaller tuna and wouldn't have to go and 'learn' it all over again.

Same with the crabs as well.

There are a lot of recipes that you can take this outlook at. If I can make an apple pie, how is that different than a cherry pie?

If I can make Drake Sausage, why not Horse Sausage, Cragbeast Sausage, Darkhollow Basilisk Meat Sausage, etc.

If I can make Slarhilug Stuffed Poppers with the Unbroken Eye Stalk, why can't I make Slarhilug Stuffed Poppers with the Webbed Tailfin. It is simply that the interface is setup on a per recipe basis and not an end result basis. Otherwise, how would it know what egg I want to use in my Clump of Dough? The interface looks at a list of the ingredients needed to make the combine and each of those combines has a different yield so they are all different combines in the EQ database.