Monday, April 06, 2015

Proposal: Tools of the Trade

Timed out and passed, 4-3. Josh

Adminned at 08 Apr 2015 16:26:08 UTC

If necessary, revert the wiki page at http://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=Cooking_Equipment to the version posted by Josh timestamped 09:37, 6 April 2015.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Equipment:

The wiki on the page entitled “Cooking Equipment” contains a list of types of Equipment that a Cook can possess, as well as the inventories of each Cook. Whenever a Cook acquires or loses a piece of Equipment, they must update this page accordingly.

A Cook can use up to three pieces of Equipment that they own in the composition of any Recipe they are making. Equipment used in this way affect the Valued Properties of the recipe after they are calculated from the base ingredients, as per the rule entitled “Recipes”, and can never make any Valued Property have an illegal value. The Valued Property effect of each piece of Equipment is tracked on the Cooking Equipment wiki page.

There are two types of Equipment: Utensils and Consumables. Consumables must be removed from a Cook’s list of Equipment when it is used in a Recipe or a Food Tasting. Consumables are denoted on the Cooking Equipment page by an asterisk next to their name.

Change the text of the rule entitled “Food Tasting” to read as follows:

If he or she has not done so in the last 48 hours, a Cook may send a Recipe or piece of Equipment (provided that it is in their inventory) as a personal message to the Restaurant Manager with the Subject “Food Tasting”. If the Cook has sent a recipe, the Restaurant Manager should reveal the Properties of the Recipe and the Rating it would receive by the next Reviewer before posting the next Review. If the Cook has sent a piece of Equipment, the Restaurant Manager need not act. The Cook can then add a single Valued Property effect to that piece of Equipment, where that effect must be a plus- or minus-1 modified to a single Valued Property.

Give each Cook a single piece of equipment at random.

Comments

Darknight: he/him

06-04-2015 19:16:54 UTC

for

Brendan: he/him

06-04-2015 19:40:54 UTC

for

Ely:

06-04-2015 21:58:46 UTC

What would make reverting the wiki page “necessary”? Profanity, spam, server crash…? :P

Also, if I understand the last lines correctly, all equipment is effectively useless (and equal) until it gets seen by the Manager, when it gets an effect of the Cook’s choice. Thematically, this is weird. (my Egg Separator gives +2 sourness while your apparently identical one gives -1 sweetness and -3 umami?)

It’s very unfair towards the poor Cooks who get handled a consumable.
imperial

severian:

07-04-2015 12:41:43 UTC

Consumable equipment just doesn’t sound right and I have to agree with Ely on effect.
against

Josh: Observer he/they

07-04-2015 14:42:50 UTC

My interpretation was that the effect got added to the generic Equipment, rather than the specific. The wording is vague through, albeit easily enough fixed.

Josh: Observer he/they

07-04-2015 14:43:11 UTC

My interpretation was that the effect got added to the generic Equipment, rather than the specific. The wording is vague through, albeit easily enough fixed.

mideg:

07-04-2015 16:56:39 UTC

against I don’t like to check wether an Consumable was used every time I reply to a Tasting and, since their legitimation is a PM send to me, I am the only one being able to check wether added properties to Utilities are legit or not.

Otherwise, I’d love to include equipment, thus I like the basic idea.

Ely:

07-04-2015 17:04:20 UTC

for CoV Since Kevan is taking away that part, and stuff can always be fixed.

Kevan: he/him

08-04-2015 09:27:37 UTC

imperial