Housing foods

Please make it so that we can tell what stat bonuses the Assorted Fruit and other housing culinary food will give us before we click yes to eat it.

But it does give you that information. At least, they do on the PS3. I can't name them off the top of my head, but the fruit has around 5 different bonuses.

While on the subject of housing foods, could we have some foods that help Crafters/Gatherers a bit more? I've noticed that all the food buffs are exclusively for DoW/DoM classes/jobs.

Hello!

The team is actually planning to make it so the stats are displayed, but unfortunately I don't have a specific implementation time frame to share with you just yet. I'll be sure to keep you posted!

I just want the option to turn off the ability to eat them. I get that it's nice to put down food that the whole FC can benefit from, but people don't actually use it like that. Instead they, for lack of a better description, sit down and "RP eat" until everything is gone. Steak? Eat. Sandwich? Eat. Steak again? Eat. And they do this until all of the food is gone in one sitting. Wine? Drink all 10 servings. "lols look how dwunk I am!".

Do any of the housing foods even have good stats? I had only skimmed through them and they all looked pretty bad so I've always just considered it decoration and never eaten the ones I've seen.

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I just want the option to turn off the ability to eat them. I get that it's nice to put down food that the whole FC can benefit from, but people don't actually use it like that. Instead they, for lack of a better description, sit down and "RP eat" until everything is gone. Steak? Eat. Sandwich? Eat. Steak again? Eat. And they do this until all of the food is gone in one sitting. Wine? Drink all 10 servings. "lols look how dwunk I am!".

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Agreed, somehow my kittens(company rank) kept drinking all the Chilled Red that I placed out for decoration. And all I'm left with are empty wine bottles... orz

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Originally Posted by Vespar

Please make it so that we can tell what stat bonuses the Assorted Fruit and other housing culinary food will give us before we click yes to eat it.

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Gourmet lunch
Assorted fruit
Afternoon tea set
Chilled red
starlight dodo

Now either you are trolling, can't read, or too lazy to look yourself. Either case, the stats are clearly listed on the housing meals. There are some valid suggestions (like the DoH/L housing meals but OPs initial post is invalid.

Once the items are placed though you can't see what the stats are. Its just a small QoL change.

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Originally Posted by Corfish

Once the items are placed though you can't see what the stats are. Its just a small QoL change.

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I was in a FC that had a table in the main area with this placed, didn't pay any attention but still used the FFXIV Libra app to see what they were about or looked in my craft log to see what they did... It's not hard but it just takes minor investigation skills at the moment. Definitely not rocket science though

Well of course you can just check an outside source, but honestly you shouldn't have to to check the stats of something. This isn't FFI where an entire strategy guide is needed just to know what everything does. It's just adding stats when you go to eat them for convenience, and considering they already confirmed they're adding it, it's pointless to argue against it :P

you're pointless - take that!

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Originally Posted by Abelli

Do any of the housing foods even have good stats? I had only skimmed through them and they all looked pretty bad so I've always just considered it decoration and never eaten the ones I've seen.

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The first and second stats on the food are relatively on-par with other foods of the same level as the furnishing, but the third stat is replaced with a gear durability stat that doesn't appear on any normal foods. Since most don't care much about durability, this makes each serving of food somewhat inferior compared to regular foods of that level.

However, you DO get ten servings of food for one synth, and while that synth typically includes several other completed food synths to create (the Afternoon Tea Set, for instance, requires Chamomile Tea, Pineapple Ponzecake, a Honey Muffin, and an Acorn Cookie as ingredients), that's still a lot of food compared to the ingredients used.

I see them as useful in much the same way as crafting furnishings: useful for when you're leveling up, but pretty much just decorative for folks already at 50.

+1 on those DOL/DOH foods...

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Originally Posted by Xakery

you're pointless - take that!

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http://www.gifwave.com/media/654556/...nd-rec-gif.gif

Oh my god this gif sucks, excuse me while I flip a table.

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Oh my god this gif sucks, excuse me while I flip a table.

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On a similar subject, it would be nice if foods told you whether they are placeable in houses or not. Got one of the cakes from the event vendors, but can't be placed in house like the roast dodo etc.

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Originally Posted by seida

On a similar subject, it would be nice if foods told you whether they are placeable in houses or not. Got one of the cakes from the event vendors, but can't be placed in house like the roast dodo etc.

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They do. Ones to be placed in a house are "Tabletop" items, while regular food are "Meals."

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Originally Posted by Xakery

used the FFXIV Libra app to see what they were about or looked in my craft log to see what they did... It's not hard but it just takes minor investigation skills

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Not everyone has the Libra app or a crafting log. Nor is everyone at a computer where they could just alt-tab and Google it, etc. Plus, even for people who can look it up elsewhere, doing so pulls you out of the game, which is contrary to the main point of these items that are supposed to improve immersion.

So I'm glad they're going to be adding the info. (Just a little disappointed it wasn't there in the original implementation. :confused: Surely as soon as they thought of adding items you could use and get stats from, they should have anticipated that players would want to know what those stats are.)

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

Not everyone has the Libra app or a crafting log. Nor is everyone at a computer where they could just alt-tab and Google it, etc. Plus, even for people who can look it up elsewhere, doing so pulls you out of the game, which is contrary to the main point of these items that are supposed to improve immersion.

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You do realize that this is an MMO? Pretty sure every MMO has info on the web to help players better understand or information to find on the internet. Even back playing RPG's on my playstation, if I didn't have a physical guide book to help me or notes from the internet, I was almost clueless as what to do. I don't expect this game or any MMO that I would play to have all the info in game for me for anything that I may wonder. It may just be me though.