Why did the recipes get nerfed?

[EvaSilph]

For example, a level 2 Water encounter sandwich was 4 herbed sausages, one rice and three cream cheese but it's been removed and the recipes now require a ton of rice. Why make the sandwiches harder to make?

[iapetos163]

The app shows only the recipes that it decides are easiest to make, and i recently changed the way it decides what's easier.

Previously, it minimized the number of portions of fillings. 4 portions of herbed sausages + 1 rice = 5 portions of fillings, which is less than 6 rice.

Now, it minimizes the total number of pieces of fillings. 4 portions of herbed sausage + 1 rice = 13 pieces of fillings, since each portion of sausage has 3 pieces. 6 rice is fewer total pieces.

I see how there's tradeoffs between the approaches. With the 6 rice recipe, you spend less time going back and forth between the ingredient plates and the sandwich, but there's higher risk of it toppling over. What i might do is try to make it smarter about deciding what's easier by assigning different difficulty scores to each ingredient.

[EvaSilph]

The number of fillings wasn't an issue because chorizo and herbed sausages are easier to stack than 6 rice.

[iapetos163]

The recipes are now back to not using so much rice and noodles.