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#### Food Variety Bonus (New Upgrade)

There's a new upgrade ('Appreciation of Food Variety') which gives bonus imagination for eating a variety of crafted food. (The upgrade is intended for low level players, so most of you will get it in the next re-deal or two.)
Only higher-level crafted food counts (not plain ol' meat or eggs or beans, etc.) — a complete list of the items is in a comment below. The bonus is the equivalent of 25% of the food's energy value if it has been a full game day (four hours) since you last ate that type of food and 50% if it has been at least 30 game days (a bit less than a week).
You'll know that food will give you a bonus because the normal "Eat" verb will be replaced with "Eat • Bonus iMG" (or "Eat • SuperBonus iMG" for the 30 day version). You can eat as much as you can fit in your belly and get bonus iMG for the food value of all of it (so, it's better to run your tank down and eat a fat stack of things that will give you a bonus).
The intention behind this change is to give chefs a bit of a boost — all of us who do not currently cook will be more likely to buy your wares (and a variety of them, to boot).
All of these rules are subject to extensive tweaking over the next few weeks (example: we might cap the amount you can get from a single type of food in a day; we might introduce more bonus tiers, we might tie to do calendar game days/resets rather full four hour periods, etc.).
And that's about it: start complaining … now!

Posted 5 months ago by stoot barfield | Permalink

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- *reads topic*
  IS IT BACON?!
  Posted 5 months ago by OMG BACON!! | Permalink
- "start complaining... now!"
  lol
  Posted 5 months ago by Pirate Apples | Permalink
- And here's the big list of all the things that count as "meals" for this purpose:
  Abbasid Ribs, Applejack, Awesome Stew, Banana No-Names, Basic Omelet, Berry Bowl, Best Bean Dip, Big Salad, Birch Candy, Bubble and Squeak, Cedar Plank Salmon, Cheese Plate, Cheezy Sammich, Chilly-Busting Chili, Choice Crudites, Cold Taco, Common Crudites, Corn-off-the-Cob, Corny Fritter, Deluxe Sammich, Divine Crepes, Eggy Scramble, Exotic Fruit Salad, Expensive Grilled Cheese, Flummery, Fortifying Gruel, Fried Eggs, Fried Noodles, Fried Rice, Frog-in-a-Hole, Fruit Salad, Gamma's Pancakes, Greasy Frybread, Green Eggs, Grilled Cheese, Hash, Hearty Groddle Sammich, Hearty Omelet, Hi-Sucrose Corn Syrup Square, Ix-style Braised Meat, Juicy Carpaccio, Lazy Salad, Lemburger, Lotsa Lox, Meat Gumbo, Meat Tetrazzini, Messy Fry-Up, Mexicali Eggs, Oaty Cake, Obvious Panini, Pi, Pineapple Upside Down Pizza, Potato Patty, Proper Rice, Pumpkin Pie, Raw Bio-Organic Carob-ish Treat, Rich Tagine, Sammich, Scrumptious Frittata, Simple BBQ, Simple Slaw, Snack Pack, Spicy Quesadilla, Spinach Salad, Super Veggie Kebabs, Tangy Noodles, Tasty Pasta, Waffles, Yummy Gruel
  (Most player-crafted food counts, but not things like the plain bun, flour, pickle or the sauces. But, we have plans for the sauces, let me tell you.)
  Posted 5 months ago by stoot barfield | Permalink
- Ooooohhh, :D and I'm on the cusp of making a massive amount of food too, Looks like I know what to stock my tower with when I finally get around to completing it!
  Posted 5 months ago by Sweetum | Permalink
- Before I could complain, I should at least be able to understand what exactly all that means. Not sure I haver reached that stage of comprehension yet.... ;)
  I have to play around with the whole thing first.
  (Then again... there are lots of people who complain especially about things they have not understood, right?)
  Posted 5 months ago by Louis Louisson | Permalink
- This is really weird.
  Posted 5 months ago by Palindrome | Permalink
- As a Glitchian Chef, I heartily approve this update.
  Posted 5 months ago by Aliera | Permalink
- well... if you insist....
  why 25% and 50%? why not 50% and 75%? I demand 50% and 75%!
  Posted 5 months ago by bored no more | Permalink
- Cool! Thanks stoot! It was great to see a new card come up :)
  Posted 5 months ago by Gertie Mack | Permalink
- Ok, I'll let you tell me all about these plans for the sauces. I won't even try to stop you.
  Posted 5 months ago by Red Sauce | Permalink
- Yaay, a good day to own a restaurant! And on that note...come to the Secret Garden for vegan food! :)
  Posted 5 months ago by Mrs. Peacock | Permalink
- It's right there in his name even. By existing he demands to be told ;)
  In all seriousness this seems like a very cool update :) I'll have to go and see what kind of variety of cooked items I can still make ;) I did unlearn a couple of the higher levels of cooking I think...
  Like others, I hope this may make a cooked food floor of my tower store viable!
  Posted 5 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom | Permalink
- Is there a way for people to know which foods would offer bonuses when browsing through SDBs? Maybe have the info of an SDB item appear somehow, rather than just the SDB info, and have it marked "you ate this meal X game days ago" like how new items are marked? It seems that the convenience of this information would make it easier for chefs to sell their foodstuffs, otherwise players need to keep an inventory of each item if they want to know.
  Posted 5 months ago by Melody Pond | Permalink
- This is nice. Very similar to the MB iMG bonus for listening
  Posted 5 months ago by Rah | Permalink
- But... Pickles! Pickles are a meal... someone back me up here!
  Oh, was it not only complaining we're supposed to do now? In that case, lovely release, I've been excited for food improvements!
  Posted 5 months ago by Magic Monkey | Permalink
- +1 Hooray!!
  Posted 5 months ago by Sayuri | Permalink
- "And that's about it: start complaining … now!"
  ROFL.
  Posted 5 months ago by Kinkajou | Permalink
- Great idea! Well, I do sell food.
  Shameless plug? Of course not ;-)
  Can we have some new customers, er, I mean players soon please.
  Posted 5 months ago by Miss Parsley | Permalink
- Sweet! But I demand to know why eating a dev isn't included in the list of bonus food.
  Posted 5 months ago by Piratice | Permalink
- This means I can merely jump back-and-forth between Meat Tetra and Awesome Stew (on any given day) and still get a mega-rad bonus, right? Mega-ultra-rad if I keep from eating them for 1-mo of course
  Posted 5 months ago by ✦ SHI∇IΔΠ ✦ | Permalink
- If you find a way to put kevbob inside a burger, you will get img bonus for life!
  Posted 5 months ago by arizoo | Permalink
- Yes! Been waiting for this since you mentioned it awhile back! Awesome possum. Now I have to start making foods other than expensive grilled cheese though, which is oddly reminiscent of my real life problems. Oh lordy do I love extra sharp white cheddar and colby jack with a dash of black pepper and a strip of bacon. *Drool*... anyways...Awesome!
  Edit: Also, am I the only one who thinks that TS hasn't added bacon just to taunt OMGBACON? lololol
  Posted 5 months ago by Grupletruge | Permalink
- YES! It's like Make A Crab Happy for glitches!
  Posted 5 months ago by Pale Queen | Permalink
- I'm a cooking freak. Love this.
  Posted 5 months ago by Eye Wonder | Permalink
- I like this. I like to cook but now there's a real incentive to do it. And so much simpler than than treatise/proposal that was bandied about so long ago.
  Posted 5 months ago by MaryLiLamb | Permalink
- Excellent! I better go make some more varieties of food for my restaurant...
  Posted 5 months ago by Shepherdmoon | Permalink
- "and that's about it. start complaining....Now!"
  does stoot know his Glitchen or what!?!
  Posted 5 months ago by MontytheGeek | Permalink
- I was all excited until "We have plans for the sauces..."
  And then I was a different kind of excited? I think?
  Posted 5 months ago by Kristen Marie | Permalink
- Love this! My tower is already stocked up with ALL OF THE FOODS!
  Glad to hear that sauces are going to be more interesting in the future.
  Posted 5 months ago by OHNOSQUIDS | Permalink
- The Wavy Gravy colition is furious for being left out. We will douse you in a non-stop torrent of pure, unadulterated saturated fat until you relent.
  Just as soon as we get back from the cardiologist.
  Posted 5 months ago by Sturminator i` | Permalink
- Wonderful news...thanks
  Posted 5 months ago by Breezy Meadow | Permalink
- This is kind of a packing problem as you have to carry X types of food around for X amount of times you eat in the day (because once you eat the food it will no longer provide its buff again for four hours). I mean, I guess it's not the worst problem, just an adjustment.
  P.S. Thanks for giving me a reason to make noodles and fizzy sauce again!
  Posted 5 months ago by Hydi | Permalink
- ^ Finally, the complaint!
  Posted 5 months ago by Shepherdmoon | Permalink
- I'm tired of trying to make a crab happy.....I want CRABCAKES!
  Love the new upgrade. :)
  Posted 5 months ago by Patricia | Permalink
- And that's about it: start complaining … now!
  Can I buy complaining from a tower in a SDB....oooh would love to taste that morsal.hahaha.
  Posted 5 months ago by Gassy Jack | Permalink
- Good idea I guess! I knew all that raw meat wasn't that good for my glitcholesterol
  Posted 5 months ago by Lemo | Permalink
- Stoot you make me laugh. "Start complaining.... now" I agree with that statement. On one of the last major forum posts it felt like you had to defend the game reasoning on that topic a lot, it was ridiculous how much people were tweaking it even got to me and I was just a bystander-reader XD
  Ok done with my rant, just wanted to let you and all the other awesome workers of Tiny Speck know that I greatly appreciate you feeding my severe glitch addiction by adding all this sweet new stuff :D
  Posted 5 months ago by Adam :D | Permalink
- Just saying, I hope the sauce news is awesome...
  Posted 5 months ago by awesome sauce01 | Permalink
- Hurm. Nifty. And, everything seems to be a "week old" at this point, so picking anything gives Super Bonus! Have to resist my desire to habitually chow down on Awesome Stews.
  Posted 5 months ago by Teem | Permalink
- Delicious!
  Posted 5 months ago by Brib Annie | Permalink
- "(example: we might cap the amount you can get from a single type of food in a day...)"
  You mean I might have to eat something other than just raw meat? :)
  Posted 5 months ago by dm | Permalink
- Thanks, this sounds like a great way to get us eating a better variety of diet here in Ur. Looking forward to what you plan to do with the sauces...
  Posted 5 months ago by Uniquely Prime | Permalink
- I approve of this update.
  Posted 5 months ago by Toksyuryel | Permalink
- This is happymaking. I've wondered for awhile what the purpose of the food variety was, but with the bonuses, I have more motivation to eat more than stew.
  Posted 5 months ago by Djabriil | Permalink
- wait... i was supposed to feed my glitch?
  Posted 5 months ago by Avery♥ | Permalink
- omg Avery roflmao
  Posted 5 months ago by Capt. S.T. Weasley | Permalink
- Just as I have achieved Food Independence (i.e. do not need to eat at all)…
  But seriously, I think this is lovely, especially for the newer glitchen.
  Posted 5 months ago by Pascale | Permalink
- love it!! All of the foods are so cute and appealing, so it's great that we're rewarded for interacting with them now.
  Posted 5 months ago by Lettuce | Permalink
- Can I complain that I have nothing to complain about?
  Seriously, this is great. Thanks, everyone at Tiny Speck.
  Posted 5 months ago by Flowerry Pott | Permalink
- Huzzah! Fantastic!
  And you have plans for sauces? Colour me excited! :D
  Posted 5 months ago by Loki Laufeyson | Permalink

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