Let's Get Cooking!
Posted by Staff on 11 Mar 2017, 10:11 pm
Hi all, I am super excited to be here today in this lovely new News Post! Awesome things are happening and I hope you’ll stick with me through all this info because it’s going to be worth the read, I promise!
Cooking Career
It’s been in the works for a while but we are very happy to finally be releasing a new career for your Villagers to play around with. Cooking functions very similarly in mechanics to the other recipe using careers so there shouldn’t be any big surprises there. We’re hoping this will be an easy to use and fun new addition to the current Villager career set. And I am sure you’re wondering what exactly is going to happen with all this food you’ll be making...Well just keep on reading and we’ll get to all that.
Recipes and general supplies can be found in the new cooking supply shop. And of course for those village specific recipes you will need to do a bit of exploring and battling to gather important ingredients. So when you are ready to get started head on over to the Cozy Cookery and stock up!
Furvilla Feast
For those with a more competitive nature, the first function food items will have is for the Furvilla Monthly Feast! The Feast is a eating contest that will occur every month and users across the site will be working hard to reach those coveted top 10 slots. But never fear because in the end, everyone that participates will win a prize of some kind so come on and join in the fun! Check out the link below for more information and a look at the Leader Board.
The Feast
Furvilla Food Drive
The second use of the new food items is a bit more generous in nature and all about helping out your village! Donating food to the local Food Drive will earn your village points and at the end of the month, the winning village’s occupants will earn a temporary extra worker slot for the whole next month. So get involved, help out your village, donate to keep all those extra mini pets and wandering villagers fed! Click the link below to head on over to the Food Drive.
Food Drive
General Info
-Each type of food item has a different point value.
---Soup = 2 points
---Appetizer = 4 points
---Salad = 6 points
---Entree = 8 points
---Dessert = 10 points
- Food items expire 2 weeks after they are crafted (this is to discourage hoarding and to try and keep things as fair as possible)
-Feeding your villager has no effect on anything but your eating contest score, which means choosing to not feed your villagers has no ill effects on your game play. This feature is purely for fun.
-If you live in a smaller village please don’t worry about your chances of winning in the Food Drive, scoring will be influenced by populations as well to give all villages a fair shot if they work hard.
We will be shooting to have a full Knowledge Base article up for this career soon and in the meantime the Staff is always happy to do their very best to answer any questions and listen to any concerns that you may have.
Cooking Career Chat and Q&A
I hope that everyone enjoys these new additions to the site and just has a lot of fun whipping up these delicious looking dishes!
Bon Appétit
♥ ADMIN-MAT ♥
I'm kinda disappointed as I was expecting fairy-like boosts as some others have mentioned, but I do like the idea of it all. It allows more engagement than most things, and I enjoy that in a game. Just... maybe try hiding your changes more? Make the CSS on another website if you have to... just, please for all that is good, make it so we can't see your changes beforetime! It made a lot of us excited over... well practically nothing, no offense. A lot of people's guesses were wrong lol.
Aha! Now we're cooking!
*scream*
Sounds like neopets gourmet club competition. I like the idea of cooking, but I think a lot of us expected more depth with the food. Buffs would have been nice to be able to cook up or food to replinish breeding timer cooldowns or charges. Even being able to cook food based pet themed skins would have been cool.
Ah now that the contest has started it looks like I'll have to make all my villagers chefs if I want a chance at top 10 x.x; ..I rather not change everyone so I'll aim for top 50% at least aha..
While I understand being upset the items can only be used in competition, it's actually a good way to use up regeants and materials to convert to something to sell, and also consume some items in another form.
Tokens (sand dollars for my village) have actually gone up about 400 FC since the release of cooking, and I imagine since the food is consumable, you can sell it for a pretty penny. I've also been buying recipe's with sand dollars and selling them in my shop for 5x the price of the sand dollar alone, and they've actually been selling.
I see this as a nice way to profit as well as have some fun along the way.
I do hope that the participation prize (for those who won't be able to make it on the top 10 slot) would include a participation medal or ribbon of some sort that could be displayed on our profiles ^^
I have to agree with others that it's disappointing that the whole career is essentially a contest. I was hoping the food would give temporary benefits to careers. =/
Also, I hope that the Worker Slot Totems will be released another way as well, because while I can understand the staff wanting to make them rare (though I don't agree with it), only giving out two per month is kind of ridiculous.
this almost makes me want to start playing again. i love this concept, you did a great job staff.
I'm out, this career obviously has no other purpose other than something that is competitive. Shame, I hoped for something better.