Oysters

[Meem]

A new thing to gather and eat or use.

I thought about it, and you get pearls from oysters, why not make it more literal to a sense where...someone could go out on a dingy and gather oysters along the shore.

They can have the choice of gather pearls from oysters, or gather the oysters themselves.

I was also thinking, they could be used as meals, like baked oysters, or smoked, or steamed. Seafood!

[tiddy ogg]

It would make more sense that instead of gathering pearls directly, as is now the case, you have to gather oysters and work on them... but maybe that is implied already. But yes, why not also a food source?

[catpurr]

what everybody tells me, roleplay it.

[Snake_byte]

Yes lol. But actually having oysters as a food source because pearls already exist would be fun... Maybe a new healing food?

[Dudel]

what everybody tells me, roleplay it.

That's because no one likes you so automatically disregards your suggestions.

I always think a new food souse while at sea is a good idea... I'd have to be a bit against it being healing food, though.

[Snake_byte]

Well oysters are usually gathered from the beach and not often in very large quantities... Maybe it can be both healing and sustaining... There are some foods like that.
But does that make any meal prepared with healing foods and non healing foods both as well... Kind of a separate question I suppose.

[Piscator]

The only way how this would be technically possible at the moment is building an oysterfarm at locations with pearls. Using a dinghy would allow gathering oysters everywhere, not only around locations with pearls, so that wouldn't work.

[catpurr]

what everybody tells me, roleplay it.

That's because no one likes you so automatically disregards your suggestions.

Dudel: Start behaving like a grown up pls.

[Doug R.]

If you two don't stop flaming each other, I'm going to ban you both from the suggestion forums.

[*Wiro]

Hahahaha, PHPbb sucks you will have to ban them from the entire forum.

[Snake_byte]

The only way how this would be technically possible at the moment is building an oysterfarm at locations with pearls. Using a dinghy would allow gathering oysters everywhere, not only around locations with pearls, so that wouldn't work.

Yes at the moment... But could it work if pearls are replaced by oysters completely... Using a 'collecting oysters' project every so many grams you receive a couple grams of pearl as not every oyster will have some.
-I was also reading a 'diamonds from coal' thread in the rejected topics and had a similar idea for those... but they were talking about a pressure machine and we're not, it's also a different topic all together...

[Dudel]

The randomness of thta, Snake_byte, could both be very fun and something like a discovery and very annoying if you were ONLY looking for pearls.

50/50 but like it still.

In general, however, I like the idea of oysters as food cause it's fun... especially if they could be eaten raw and still maybe count as a "lighter food", or whatever.

[Snake_byte]

The randomness of thta, Snake_byte, could both be very fun and something like a discovery and very annoying if you were ONLY looking for pearls.

All true even the possible annoying part but realistic.

[Piscator]

At the moment projects can't have dual outputs, so there's not much we can do in that direction right now.

With regard to the original suggestion, I would also be very reluctant to implement oyster recipes, since pearls are one of the rarest resources in the game. Our cookers are pretty cramped alredy and I wouldn't like to implement recipes hardly anyone ever would be able to make.

There are plans for crab fishing from boats though and if I find a plausible way to catch clams with a net we could include them, too. That would of course only be for food purposes.

[Snake_byte]

-At the moment projects can't have dual outputs

-There are plans for crab fishing from boats though

Ah, didn't know about the first point and this would probably include restructuring how projects work now all together... A lot of work

I think crab fishing would be cool... Lot's of fun rp to be had there.