Chefs get some luv'n for Valentines Day!

Chocolatiering branch!

Here's the linky! Everyone run to test! http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/shared/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

http://update.uo.com/general.html

What Dev do we owe Valentines to for the love! http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/shared/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Hyssmaye]

YAY YAY YAY!!!!!!!!!

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[Lady Katherine]

But why oh why do the ingredients have to come from paragon monsters? More crafting items I will have to forgo because I will not be able to kill the monsters nor am I willing to pay what exorbitant prices the ingredients will surely command on vendors. http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/shared/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Or, to put it another way, "Darn it, Jim, I'm a chef, not a paragon killer!"

mmm...back at the very first day of tribal berries for savage paint...I stood with my cook at the bank spamming will make paint for cost of 2 berries...so I got one resource for myself and one used to make the guy's paint. Then I could make my own paint on the side and sell that too for the usual marked up first-day prices...I made a LOT that day...went for like 6-8 hours straight

True, but there is a away around that.

Not everyone has a chef and those of us that do will be in demand for a bit. You could do business for people who do have the ingredients. Charge them a fee for your services.

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Great minds think alike!

It's a great way to socialize and even bring some RP into your game if you like.

Now, I wonder if this is going to be a temporary addition or permanent? http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/shared/images/graemlins/confused.gif

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Now, I wonder if this is going to be a temporary addition or permanent? http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/shared/images/graemlins/confused.gif

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Wondering that, too. As firecrackers are being removed as special loot, and pumpkin spawns, will the chocolate ingredients be removed from paragons once Valentine's is over? Either way, I hope they stack for stockpiling.

took me 5 hours to make one chocolate (getting all 4 ingredients was unlucky for me)...its the same graphic as the free ones found in everyone's gift box http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/shared/images/graemlins/frown.gif

I'm taking my disgusted butt to bed now.

[Oriana]

Did the same thing Vol. What a disappointment. For as much trouble as getting the ingreds is, they should be different. I can understand why they made the gingerbread cookies the same the ingreds were readily available. But man, for all that work it is a let down.

PS I'm sending in a feedback form and I suggest everyone not happy with this do the same.

no kidding...I wasn't really expecting a big WOW like a choc bunny...but...man...even an ingot graphic woulda sufficed, ya know? An open box of brown dots? Something?

Has anyone been able to MARK their chocolates yet?

[imported_ejpeters]

Do you need 100 skill to make the chocolates?

Skill requirements:

Dark Chocolate: 15 Cooking
Milk Chocolate: 32.5 Cooking
White Chocolate: 52.5 Cooking

So it looks like anyone with a bought skill should be able to make chocolate.

Before we get too excited, might want to look here (http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/uo/showflat.php?Cat=4&amp;Number=7619653&amp;page=&amp;view=&amp;sb=5 &amp;o=&amp;fpart=1&amp;vc=1&amp;what2=showflat&amp;selv=&amp;vwhich=) for a bit of reality, as explained by Voluptuous. http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/shared/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Like so much of UO these days...nice ideas + hope + poor implementation = player disappointment.

Hopefully they see the light before this makes it to live publish.

-Skylark

Earlier from the House of Commons chat: (my bold)

Brannoc - *kittykat* Will gardening every get any love, like new plants, resources, or even the fabled 5th generation?
* RicTheHippy firers a stealth arrow at Draconi *
* Draconi crawls out of the hedges, having been pwned by some ninjas for earlier, unrepeatable comments *
Draconi - Well, one fun addition in the next publish will be cocoa trees, including appropriate seeds - this should go nicely with the coming additions to chocolatiering as well! (What, you thought we'd spoil everything at once?)
* RicTheHippy chortles and slips into the shadows *

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mmm...back at the very first day of tribal berries for savage paint...I stood with my cook at the bank spamming will make paint for cost of 2 berries...so I got one resource for myself and one used to make the guy's paint. Then I could make my own paint on the side and sell that too for the usual marked up first-day prices...I made a LOT that day...went for like 6-8 hours straight

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This is actually a fantastic idea and would bring back some player interaction...perhaps market days could be set up around it and so on for player bartering.


I wanted to know if anyone has found out if you can decorate the chocolate with a food decorating tool? because that would be a nice addition...and maybe if only the crafted ones could be decorated it would excuse the icky re use of graphics from the gift box....I was so wanting a chocolate heart or something nice.