Realistic Cooking and Grocery overhaul

[ZIGI]

Hi Guys,

I am not sure if it is just me, but one thing that I have personally noticed that simulation games fail to get right time and time again is their cooking and grocery system. Since Inzoi focus on bringing a more realistic game play to their audience, and we the community have agreed that we’re enjoying the current improvements to game to make the game more immersive and feel alive. Then I think it fair to suggest a ‘Cooking and Grocery Overhaul’.

I love Inzoi’s open world and Delivery system, however, the game does not offer much for the Zois to buy or interact with; and the repetitiveness gets boring and makes the game play dull. Additionally, with the new high school update with cooking classes as a curriculum and school activity, it only makes sense that grocery stores, delivery services like an inzoi equivalent to ‘hello fresh’ where Zois cans subscribe to different packages and a wide range of functional produce and product specific items that Zois can eat and interact with to make different dishes.

For example:

• Food should not be freely accessible and Zois shouldn’t be able to just go into to their fridge and simply pull out a meal or snack. I understand they’re charged for it but since the game focus on realism, I find this highly unrealistic, especially with an open world that Zois do not have grocery stores. In real life, you would need to buy Groceries to stock your home with, therefore, it would make sense for Zois to shop for them and make use of the open world, stores and phone delivery system.

• A larger selection of items such as: different types of dairy products, including milks and cheeses. Meat packs such as pork , chicken, beef, sausages, shrimp etc. Fruits/veg, breads, pasta, grains, flour, sugar, spices and oils. Additionally, spreads, sauces and larger selection of tea, coffee, edible snacks and many other products. These items should be available in stores, or delivery.

• If Zois do not have the required items to make a specific meal then they should not have the ability to make them unless they have those items or obtained them. I.e. Pressure Cooker, Toaster, Grills etc.

• When purchasing from the online store, Zois should be able to select more that one item at a time and make a bulk purchase.

• [Optional] - A shopping list feature, whereby zois can add/remove items from their favourites menu in the delivery app when shopping and these will be saved so when they next shop, players can just click buy again. This would save time having to go through the full list of items again.

• Items like baby formula, baby food and nappies should be included for a more immersive gameplay with the babies. Like should a baby need a bottle, then just like in real life, if the Zoi is choosing to bottle feed, then in order to make a bottle would require formula, just like if the baby required changing then Zois would require nappies/wipes.

• More restaurant and fast food options.

• Cooking classes and Cookbooks, Whereby Zois can obtain specific recipes and attend to improve their skills. I don’t like how every zoi has access to the same recipes, some more complex dishes should be only obtain if the Zoi has learned set recipe.

• Better portioning sizes

[Minthyuyu]

Hello, welcome to the forum​. I agree with these features and I have good news. The devs are actually working on a refined cooking system and making shops mandatory. I’ll leave you links that mention the rough roadmap for the coming updates, if you like to check them out:

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In addition, here is my wishlist link with my cooking suggestions that actually partially will make it to the game:

More recipes and refined cooking/baking system

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[NIck_Olay]

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[Mariposa_0002]

I think more and more of us are looking for this kind of immersive gameplay. It’s pretty much what I described in my own suggestion, and I feel like our ideas are very similar.

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[Twee]

Hey @ZIGI Thanks for adding your ideas to the Wishlist! I think this would be amazing and im very hopeful that these and many more will be implemented with time.

I noticed that although we can grow our own fruit and veggies right now(more variety would be great) it seems that we only store them in the fridge but they’re not useable for everyone. The ingredient needs to be in the ‘bag’ in order for it to be used but some fruit is not used for cooking at all.. eg blueberries but not blueberry pancakes?
I really hope this is just something overlooked.

-Nappies are a great idea from @Mariposa_0002 aswell! Formula and little teething snacks or smoothie pouches would be great for babies/toddlers.
-I love that there are so many snacks in the game but maybe we could have a few of these to ‘watch tv’ and snack, chocolate when you’re in a bad mood something like this.
-The children can play with a kitchen toy now but maybe they can make a little item of food with it like cookie dough or a bowl of crisps/sweets.
-Maybe we can have some ‘mud cakes’ from toddlers when they escape the house and play outside
-@Minthyuyu and @NIck_Olay have great ideas about groceries, recipes and functionality. I think you’re spot on about the school cooking classes, maybe we can have a few special recipes.

You all have so many great ideas, keep them coming! Im sure the team enjoys seeing the participation

[Kara]

I agree too.