Set the Trendiness Values for each Ingredient to 40.
In the sub-rule Hot Topic:
- Change 5 to 40.
- Change “non-negative integer” to “integer, possibly negative,”.
- Add “(Today Only:)” before the last sentence.
- Add “(From Tomorrow:) As a Shutdown Action, a Closed Truck may increase or decrease any one Ingredient’s Trendiness by up to 5.” to the end of that sub-rule.
In the rule The Night, replace the bullet point starting with “Review Trends:” with:
Review Trends: Select a random Ingredient which is not the Trending Ingredient. During this step, all increases to that Ingredient’s Trendiness are doubled. Increase each Ingredient’s (except the Trending Ingredient) Trendiness by the number times it appeared on Menus at the start of this night action. Decrease the Trending Ingredient’s Trendiness by the number of Menus that it appeared upon at the start of this Night action. If multiple Ingredients have the highest Trendiness, randomly select one of those Ingredients and add 1 to that Ingredient’s Trendiness. Set the Trending Ingredient to the Ingredient with the highest Trendiness.
So I completely rewrote #CheesegotAura. I included JonathanDark’s suggestion that the Trending Ingredient should go down the number of dishes that use that ingredient. I also changed “prior to this Night” to “at the start of this Night” to avoid including previous Dishes, at Kevan’s request.
But that’s not all. I also changed the proposal from going up based on the number of Dishes to the number of Menus. This decreases the amount of extra influence you can get from fittings like Second Station (seven dishes). I also decided not to multiply up Trendinesses, but to instead just set them to 40.
I added a clause doubling the amount of increases that happens to one ingredient, which allows low-trendiness dishes to go up more. I added a random tiebreaker instead of two dishes with equal trendinesses defaulting to the alphabetically earliest.
Kevan: Yard he/him