raw food, prepared food (cooperation boost)

[the_antisocial_hermit]

I never saw this. No, this should be banished to the far reaches of the galaxy, frozen in time to never be released again. Just no.

[Arlequin]

Well, my tavern is going out of business after twenty years because no matter how much different food you offer, how well you roleplay and decorate the tavern, how much effort you put on advertise it, how fast you cook it with expert chefs, no matter if the tavern is in a location with a big population and scarce food, and you exchange food for work or almost anything besides bones and fur, there's absolutely nothing that can compete with smokers. I said it somewhere before.

My tavernkeeper has tons of cooked food and nothing to pay his providers, employees and merchants, so that's over.

The non roleplaying awkard meat smokers have won.

[Arlequin]

Sorry for bringing back an old topic, but...

1) IRL raw food is in fact more nutritious than cooked food.

Eat raw food all your life, specially raw food you gathered or hunted yourself, and I bet you you won't live long.

Raw food carries diseases. It's easy to think it's healthy today, when producers really care your pork doesn't carry trichynosis, but humankind surely would be long extinct if they didn't learn to cook meat before eating it.

[DELGRAD]

Sorry for bringing back an old topic, but...

1) IRL raw food is in fact more nutritious than cooked food.

Eat raw food all your life, specially raw food you gathered or hunted yourself, and I bet you you won't live long.

Raw food carries diseases. It's easy to think it's healthy today, when producers really care your pork doesn't carry trichynosis, but humankind surely would be long extinct if they didn't learn to cook meat before eating it.

Raw foods are better for you to eat untill it comes to meats.
Cooked meats are easier to digest. Raw meat take alot more energy to digest.
Meats are where ilness lies.

[Wolf]

I suggest a change in food consumption. A person gathering and preparing food for himself should have little spare time. With cooperation one person should be able to feed many people.

1. Raw food is eaten raw at least at halve the gathering rate per day if it can be eaten at all.
2. Most prepared food should rot quickly, except for travel food; after a day or three, four most food should have perrished. (Unless refridgerators are invented).
3. Travel food (longerlasting prepared food) should be more difficult (Output per day of labour) and/or expensive (Required resources) to make.

With this suggestion accepted you can't stockpile prepared food as easily as you can now. Communities can have one or two persons prepare food for all communitymembers.

Hm...
This would basically kill off a lot of travel and trade etween towns, because people would need to spend years just cooking.
Not to mention, people who spend too long on one project (preparing food) would demand higher payment if it's a job, or get bored with the game which leads to sleeping illness and heart-attacks in-game...
Also, who's to determine the line between travel food and other food?
For example, salted meat would be a great travel food, but in a town with only salt and animals, it obviously would be used as regular food.
A town with no animals and only potatoes, cut off by a vast mountain range and a lake, would be seriously buggered because all they got is potatoes and no way of preparing them, unless there's wood and string available for a drying rack.
As others mentioned, some places would be seriously buggered if this was accepted and implemented.

Sorry for bringing back an old topic, but...

1) IRL raw food is in fact more nutritious than cooked food.

Eat raw food all your life, specially raw food you gathered or hunted yourself, and I bet you you won't live long.

Raw food carries diseases. It's easy to think it's healthy today, when producers really care your pork doesn't carry trichynosis, but humankind surely would be long extinct if they didn't learn to cook meat before eating it.

Our ancestors who didn't have fire, did well enough with raw meat and fruits/vegetables.
Even today, there are still tribes scattered throughout remote regions that live on raw meat, raw veggies and fruits.
We "advanced civilized" folks might not be able to stomach the stuff, but we do not make up 100% of mankind.
And mankind SURVIVED because we ate raw stuff.
Back in the days before we knew how to make fire, sometimes the sabretooth beasties would eat us, sometimes we would eat them. Raw. Uncooked, unsalted, without mayonaise, without spices or other stuff.
We'd pluck the meat off the bones, the intestants were also consumed.
It wasn't until we got all wussified that raw stuff became too much for our delicate weak physiology to handle.

[Arlequin]

This would basically kill off a lot of travel and trade etween towns, because people would need to spend years just cooking.

Only as long as they awkardly cook their own food.

[T-shirt]

This would basically kill off a lot of travel and trade etween towns, because people would need to spend years just cooking.

There are characters spending almost their entire life preparing food. But taverns are hardly used, because anyone can get all the food they want for themselves. Cooperation is not needed at all.
When you are on your own or choose to work alone, this suggestion will make life more difficult.

Not to mention, people who spend too long on one project (preparing food) would demand higher payment if it's a job, or get bored with the game which leads to sleeping illness and heart-attacks in-game...

I don't know if this is true.

Also, who's to determine the line between travel food and other food?
For example, salted meat would be a great travel food, but in a town with only salt and animals, it obviously would be used as regular food.
A town with no animals and only potatoes, cut off by a vast mountain range and a lake, would be seriously buggered because all they got is potatoes and no way of preparing them, unless there's wood and string available for a drying rack.
As others mentioned, some places would be seriously buggered if this was accepted and implemented.

When salting meat would cost a kilo of meat and half a kilo of salt to produce a quarter kilo of salted meat, it is an expensive product. If the town in your example has only salt and no dung, the salted meat would be the only food, but if there is dung, cooking meat might be less expensive.
Some places might be seriously buggered with this suggestion, because fuel for food preparation might be hard to come by. It's a flaw in Cantr. Wood is both a building material and fuel for food. To get wood for construction you need trees. But wood for fuel can be found at any place with vegetation. Maybe wood, dried dung, coal and other fuels for food preparation should be removed from the game. Assuming that gathering fuel is part of the process of food preparation. Just like water is part of the cooking process.

Eat raw food all your life, specially raw food you gathered or hunted yourself, and I bet you you won't live long.

Raw food carries diseases. It's easy to think it's healthy today, when producers really care your pork doesn't carry trichynosis, but humankind surely would be long extinct if they didn't learn to cook meat before eating it.

Our ancestors who didn't have fire, did well enough with raw meat and fruits/vegetables.
Even today, there are still tribes scattered throughout remote regions that live on raw meat, raw veggies and fruits.
We "advanced civilized" folks might not be able to stomach the stuff, but we do not make up 100% of mankind.
And mankind SURVIVED because we ate raw stuff.

The life expectancy has increased a little since the times we are able to prepare food. It can't all be accounted on the food preparation, but partly it can.

[Yömyssy]

If this would be implemented, it would just kill off every new language group and some of the already existing ones..
To quote about 80% of the posters here "No"