I would guess, rightly or wrongly, Awesome Stew being the "best" will get a elevated price. There is a certain extra value of being able to cram more energy into a stack.
When it comes to donation value, it's definitely not a good idea to buy awesome stew at auction, because you're almost always paying more than 10 to 1. Better to convert your cash into stuff from a vendor at that point.
I actually fell asleep during my ACT. :) Still got damn high scores. I don't know if that actually saying something about me, or something about the ACT. :p
Awesome stew is popular because it begins with an 'A' and is at the top of the list. People are too lazy to scroll. Meat tetrazzini is way down the list and so less popular. That's my theory, anyway.
Awesome stew is popular because it begins with an 'A' and is at the top of the list. People are too lazy to scroll. Meat tetrazzini is way down the list and so less popular. That's my theory, anyway.
I think it's because it has "Awesome" in the name. Perhaps we should rename Meat Tetrazzini to "Massively Meaty Tetrazzini"! That sounds pretty epic imo. (It's also scarily alliterative)
last test i made a bunch of Abbasid Ribs, Ix Style Braised Meat and Awesome Stew, and sold them all at 1 currant per energy unit.
i thought that Awesome Stew would do the best, since it has the best energy per slot [uses up the least inventory for the energy it provides]
but it didn't! shocking i know.
not sure why, but i think it had something to do with the up front cost of the awesome stew being prohibitive. also, awesome stew doesn't sell very quickly at 250 very often. people *list* it at 250 but from what i saw a lot of the stews listed that high tended to languish.
ix-style braised meat didn't do well at all. it is down the /cat-food/ list a ways, and the illustration isn't very appetizing. i have this theory that the illustration matters but that's difficult to prove.
abbasid ribs sold amazingly. low up front cost, top of the /cat-food/ list and a good looking illustration prompted plenty of sales.
after a while i got tired of waiting for awesome stew to sell and mentioned [spammed, once] global chat to mention that i had put some up for "cheap" relative to the other awesome stews on offer - and they were all gone in moments. i was mostly doing it to test and won't be doing it again, but spam works i guess : /
Along a similar line, 2 tests back I was regularly selling earthshakers for ₡250 each. Last test ₡160 seemed to be the going rate and right now you can buy 2 at auction for ₡137!
jobynana, actually it isn't that bad. it requires a lot of beans but other than beans it only requires garden crops and meat, which grow and collect themselves in your backyard. you don't have to travel the world gathering both bubbles and spice like with some other foods, so you save labour in that respect.
but yeah .. in my personal opinion Abbasid Ribs are the ultimate foodstuff. they require only spice and meat. they might not net as much energy as awesome stew, but you can produce a ton of them very quickly due to their lack of complexity and low ingredient count.
plus the ribs are at the top of the /cat-food/ list which makes them great at auction.
I still only eat pig meat from my collectors at home. It's raw, it's free (after the cost of meat collector), it pays for itself (I keep the meat collector full of raw meat so my pigs don't die), and nobody has reported me to the ASPCA or PETA yet.
@stri, oh yes, I agree, it's one of the simpler recipes to make but, despite having 2 bean trees in my yard as well as going out to harvest them, I just keep running out of beans LOL! But maybe yuo are right about the ribs...I might just make more of them instead, besides, they look much tastier:P