As you flip away from watching Magmos Idol, you drop the remote while on the Cooking Channel. As you lean down to pick the remote up, you see a young guy with red hair in a chef's outfit, announcing his show. He moves oddly, as if there was a small green gecko-like pokemon in a human suit making the movements instead of this guy. Setting aside that for a moment, you tune up the volume as the show begins...
Sapphire City: 2:58 PM.
The cameras were ready. The set was neatly lined up. Sprout was about to go live on his new cooking show. He was a bit nervous... no, he was REALLY nervous. He wasn't sure weather his disguise would work, but it couldn't be THAT bad...
"We're on in thirty seconds! Take your places, everyone!" Mech shouted. After Sprout made a wonderful dinner at the mansion, he decided to give him a shot at Magmos TV's infamous cooking channel. The channel shouldn't have been infamous, but after hit cooking star Saypheril interrupted the middle of his show to hold Magema hostage... well, there was a timeslot open, and Sprout had filled it.
"Ten seconds, everyone!"
It was almost time. As Sprout prepared to dazzle the auidence with his... interesting cooking techniques, he realized something. If he did this right, he could do ANYTHING.. Sprout laughed, and walked up to the stage...
Announcing: Making Magmos Munchies, the special blog type thing where I tell YOU, yes, YOU, the humble players of Magmared about the all new cooking system in PMR2.
Every 2-4 days, I will explain a bit about the new system. You might learn a few recipies, or maybe I'll tell you how to get special ingredients...
As we get closer and closer to the unknown release of PMR2, more will be able to be revealed. By the time this blog is done, maybe you might be able to learn about a new minigame... but anyways, let us begin, I will give you an explanation right now..
MR. BAN
Cooking Basics
For my first explanation, I will explain the basics of cooking. It is definatly a LOT more complex than it is now, and the rewards for building your cooking skill will be very... interesting.
The Cooking Skill
On the day that PMR2 is done, you will notice that there are new things called Skills. Trainers and Pokemon have different skills, and they affect different things you do. For example, a Trainer with more Catching skill will have his PokeBalls have a higher rate of success, as this trainer has caught a lot of pokemon and knows how to throw a ball correctly. On the other hand, a Pokemon might have a Dashing skill, which allows them to both: A- flee from battle more efficiently, and B- use and upgrade the Dash skill which allows them to increase their movement speed by a large amount for a few seconds every 10 or so minutes.
The Cooking Skill is a crafting skill, allowing you to make items to use or sell. Whenever you make an item, you gain skill points. If you burn it, you will gain half of what you would have gained if it was sucessful. When you first start out, you will be only able to make very simple things, and you will burn them most of the time. Some very basic Recipies are:
Dough: Cannot be burnt, but gives minimal exp. Made from Fresh Water, Flour, and Yeast.
Toast: Made from Sliced Bread. Butter or Berry Jelly can be added for better toast. Can be burnt.
Bread Loaf: Made from Dough. Can be burnt.
Sliced Bread: Use a Knife on a Bread Loaf to obtain 4-8 pieces of Sliced Bread. No EXP, cannot be burnt.
These are only some very basic recipies, but as you can see, even making Toast needs lots of steps.
Ingredients
To make recipies, you must harvest ingredients from the world. You could also buy them, but that wouldn't be fun, would it?
To get ingredients, you might use various skills, such as Foraging, Fishing, even Farming. For example, say you wish to make Toast. You would Forage for Wheat, extract the seeds using Farming, grind them in a mill, get Flour, go to a stream, use Fishing to get water, (i'm serious) and then Forage for Yeast. Foraging is affected by three factors. You can just randomly forage, where you can only forage from a tile noone has foraged from in an hour, you can search for special Bushes where you can find berries, and specific plants, or you can use a special item to see where certain things are. You will gain the most items from Bushes, a medium amount from Random Foraging, and if you use the item, you will gain sligthly less. Note that foraging takes time. Pokemon can also forage- they do it better than trainers, in fact.
Based on your Foraging Skill, the area your foraging in, and what method you are using to forage, you will get different quality levels.
Quality
A wise man once said that someone who wants good bread needs good wheat. The same holds true for PMR2. A beginning forager won't be able to remove the wheat without ruining it slightly, and an expert won't get much from a farm with poor soil (near newbie areas). There are ten levels of Quality, from worst to best:
Bad
Poor
Meager
Average
Fine
Good
Great
Exellent
Awsome
Masterful
The Area and Skill of the Forager will affect the Quality level. You won't get much more than Fine if your skill is high in a low level area, and the max would be about Average with low skill in a high area. You also would Fail a lot (ruining the tile, I should mention) and not get too much exp, therefore. However, even with the best skill in the best area, you will average Great, with some Exellents, Goods, and the occasional Awsome. Masterfuls are rare. The best items are made from Masterful, and will yield a large number of high quality items, at least in the case of food.
Crafting Quality items is dependant on luck, skill, ingredients, and your physical ability at the Crafting Minigame. You cannot get any quality higher than one above the average quality of the ingredients, (with masterful being a higher chance of getting a master) and you will have less chance to get a good item with less skill. The Crafting Minigame, which will be explained in a later post, will also effect the end result if played well.
Some examples of things you can cook:
Pokemon Food: Besides simply feeding them, homemade food fills Hunger more, is possibly cheaper than buying it, and might give special bonuses. There are different types of food, with 5 levels for all 17 pokemon types. Pokemon CAN eat other foods of a different type, but they will enjoy it more if it is of their type. They also will like types they are strong against more than those they are weak against.
Human Food: Ranging from Pasta to Crembrule, this food is for humans, although pokemon CAN eat it, though with less results. Pokemon or Humans who do not eat will either: Faint after receiving diminished stats, or, in the case of trainers, become worse and worse at Trainer skills until eventully falling unconsious, and either A- if they have pokemon with them, having the pokemon carry them to the Pokemon Center, (which has a human doctor now for some reason) or B- if they have no pokemon, be found by Officer Jenny and taken to the center and lose a certain amount of money. All pokemon within a certain range of the trainer that also belong to them will transport too. If there are other trainers around, they will have an option to take them to the center if there are no pokemon, which will avert the cost and take them to the center.
Effect Food: Special Food that works like Mart-Bought items.. or not. These restore minimal hunger, but restore HP, PP, raise stats, remove status effects, revive pokemon, and if you are lucky, permanently raise levels or stats like a rare candy or stat boosting item such as protein.
Weird Stuff: There are some odd recipies that will make items such as Inedible Cream Pie which have more.. amusing uses. These include things you can throw at people, which makes an amusing splat, special clothing items, (don't ask) and even high explosives! (well not really, but feed your pokemon some of Nurse Joy's Famous Twenty-Bean Chili and the battle might get a little gassy..)
This marks the end of the first post. I'll see you sometime soon! And watch out for that Twenty Bean Chili... euurgh..
DigitalNexus
Thats barely how it will go.. But I will look into some of the ideas.
I already have the MCS Module's Base Coding set out.
Good opening though. You should do that more. You're a born storyteller.
MR. BAN
I don't know why I like making fake updates, but it's fun.
Thank you, my dad is an author, so I know lots of stuff from him.
DigitalNexus
FALCON PUNCH!!!!1!!!!11!! wrote:
I don't know why I like making fake updates, but it's fun.
Thank you, my dad is an author, so I know lots of stuff from him.
I wonder why so many people learn stuff from their dad.
My dad works as a supervisor at an Apple Products plant. (Apple juice, applesauce, etc.)
Yet I know nothing of how to make anything out of apples. I actually hate raw apples. (Yet not Applesauce or Juice..)
And I stink at Supervising things.
MR. BAN
You supervise my insanity...
Try some Granny Smiths, they're much different than sweet apples. I love the tart flavor!
jeff8500
I WANNA EAT MAH GRAMMA SMITH!
Seriously though, those are alot better than real apples.
MR. BAN
Everyone says they're for baking. THEY ARE WRONG. :O
