Comments for Idle Cooking Emperor

Sorry, but browsers do reduce CPU-usage of inactive tabs since a while to save energy, while that might be good for energy usage, it is bad for idle games. It does progress in an inactive tab (firefox) for me, but because of the very low CPU they get it is a bit slower. In Chrome that is worse, not much I can do about that. However the game has offline progress so if you don't actively play it, then close it and come back when you play it, you should get the full progress.

That might be because the beta version was on a different url. If it doesn't autoload you save, you can usually get it back if you load online. But you need to do that fast after before it autosaves above it.

You get more options (up to 10) while playing the game. You unlock more options when you retire.

Yes a special ingredient from chabolonia. It is really nutrious and delicious if you can ignore that it stares you down while you eat it.

Base growth. It will likely take 1-2 months until you can evolve your fairy for the first time.

It has an influence, before the last update the influence was just lower than it is now. Before the last update the scaling was really low for populations bigger than 5000. Now it scales better after that. And there is no Curry ingredient in the game if you are looking for that. Curry is a theme for a dish with a mix of different spices. You can create it yourself if you use at least 4 different spices + one main ingredient (anything other than spice with at least 100 gram).

Max speed is at 0.05 seconds sell time for a dish, but you need very high stats to reach that. You probably need to play months for that. At the alpha version the speed was capped depending on the population, but I removed that cap a while ago.

You can already get more cooking medals at higher difficulties. It is 1 + difficulty /3 rounded down, but currently capped at 3. So at difficulty 3 you get 2 medals and 4 secrets and at 6+ you would get 3 cooking medals and 7 secrets. Difficulty 6 may sound hard at the beginning, but there are actually a few people who can already constantly beat difficulty 6. Also don't underestimate the secrets. They can add up and are powerful if you have enough.

The biggest factor in the challenger battles is your recipe quality research. Although the first one should be doable even with low level research (~20). To beat the second one you should have at least ~120 quality research on the recipe you use, for second difficulty you need ~220 quality research and a battle fairy.

You can train them and there are more waiters available. But you are right that I should give them a bit higher base stats I guess.

The pupil has to gain the experience for cooking the dishes by himself. It is unlikely that a pupil can create dishes as good as the master from the start. You still keep the secrets, though. And I think it is worth it to get more cooking medals and you need it once in a while to increase your multis.

If you click customize, you can increase the space for employees.

Yes I made both of them.

If you don't use a waiter, the cook will use half of its stats for waiting. If you use a waiter not, then only the waiter uses its stats for that. So if your waiter has much lower stats than the cook(s) in the restaurant, then he might lower the earnings unless you train him for a bit first. But I will look into that and might balance it a bit differently or give out more info about that.

Yes I guess it needs to be more visible if a recipe is good for the current area or not. What I can say and is currently ingame: A dish with the fitting theme of the area will receive a popularity boost of 10. All dishes which don't fit the theme will reduce their popularity by half. If the whole menu includes a drink, all dishes will receive a 20% popularity boost. If the whole menu includes a drink and a desert, all dishes will receive a 30% popularity boost. Other than that, the quality and a few other things affects the popularity. Soon, ingredients will affect the outcome a bit more depending on the combination. But I will think of a way to make it more visible and so easier to select the best dishes for a restaurant.

Thanks, I will fix the spelling error. But it would be hard to change the female. I didn't draw it myself and bought it from a japanese guy a few months ago which is not available anymore. Not sure if I can draw a fitting skirt myself without lowering the quality.

You are right, the customizing worked at first, but at that time the balancing for sell speed and prices was bad and had a cap. I changed that a while ago which made the customizing buttons pretty much useless. I will rework them a bit when I come to it so they are actually useful. But first I need to add the combination boosts / penalties of ingredient because that will also influence it. Not sure if I can do all of that this week, but it will be done eventually. As for the fairy, you are right, currently increasing the price will decrease the speed by the same amount. So increasing the price by 25% lowers the speed by 25% which will make it seem that it doesn't increase the speed. I will also think about how to balance that better. Anyway thanks for your support!

Hm for me it continues here. Can you show a screenshot of that?

Yes I mostly did bugfixes and small updates for ITRTG. But it will get a big update this year, a few months after I will release ICE. ICE still needs a few more weeks of work before I can release it for all people, though.

There are no challenges added yet, but I will add a few soon. Although probably no Arty challenge :D

They are not that laggy for me, but sometimes I can see that it takes a split second to load the right ui-content. I will look into it a bit and try to improve this a bit.

Ah seems like it works but it doesn't update the ui. If you click anywhere else, then on research again, it updates the ui to show it. But I will fix that so it updates the ui at the right time. As for the ingredient, I will look into it.

Sorry for the issue, I will look into that and fix it shorly.

The problem is that browsers will slow down the cpu usage for everything by up to 99% if they are not in an active window. Most idle game also have the issue that they only run at full speed in an active window. I can look into it to improve that, but it is probably not possible to get full progress if the game is in an inactive window. I don't think it is much of a problem to let it run on its own window, though. But if you can't do that, the game also has offline progress so if you go offline and come back you should have pretty much full progress.

Most of your stats count for the score, so you should do well if you level all your training stats. For cooking duels, Speed decreases prepare time (min 0.5 sec, max 2 sec for everything), Intelligence decreases Cooking time, Idea decreases Presentation time. Intelligence affects how much experience you gain. But you are right, I need to improve the tooltips and battle tutorial a bit.

I uploaded a new version which should address this problem.

You get fame from selling food. The more happiness, the more fame you get. I will upload a new version with quite a few changes soon which also reduces the fame requirement for jane.