I'm not really sure if I have something wrong (probably) or am missing some key piece of information (also probably), but I have been trying to figure out the optimum diet thing for a while now, and started comparing the different sources for optimum diet plans. I've discovered what appears to be a discrepancy that I'm struggling to qualify.
I've been using this site for a while now to figure out the optimal diet:
http://www.houeland.com/kol/diets
The lists seem pretty good except it assumes you buy everything from the mall, so it never takes into account inventory and crafting abilities. I can usually eat/drink to full at a fraction of the cost that it recommends.
I started using this script to see if the results were pretty close, but it seems like the results from this script are WAY off from the table on the website. Normally, I would say this is expected, but the problem is that it's off in the wrong direction.
For instance:
From the website
I check Ode + Tuxedo Suite, Liver of Steel, No Semi-Rares, Maximize for Adventures
If I assume a profit of 500 mpa, I go down the list, and it says that I will earn 188.1 turns, and spend 13k meat doing it. The food/drink/spleen list comes back with:
1x milk of magnesium [889 meat]
3x spooky lo mein [1483.7 meat]
1x pear tart [445 meat]
9x dusty bottle of {fantastic wine} [200 meat]
1x shot of blackberry schnapps [265 meat]
1x rockin' wagon [1595 meat]
15x twinkly wad [238 meat]
Now, with the script, I would assume that I would get the same or more turns, for the same or less spent trying to create all this stuff.
15 int foodMax
19 int drinkMax
15 intSpleenMax
The food list changes, but the booze/spleen list seems to be similar:
1x milk of magnesium
3x Boris' Key Lime Pie
1x Pear Tart
9x Dusty Bottle of Zinfandel
1x Cruelty-free Wine
15x Twinkly Wad
1x Horizontal Tango
Spent 31046 meat. Gained Fullness: 15. Inebriety: 23. Spleen: 15. Adventures: 182. Muscle: 333. Moxie: 243. Mysticality: 325.
Now, this script is supposed to take inventory into account, yet it claims I'll need to spend 31k to get 6 less adventures.
The strange part, to me, is that I know that i can craft (or even buy every item from the mall) on that list, and it won't add up to 31k meat. In fact, if I buy every ingredient on that list and craft everything, it only works out to 9,730 meat for the entire list. What's more, is that I have most of the ingredients in inventory already, so I wouldn't even have to purchase most of it, bringing the cost down even more.
I figure it's using the mall price for key lime pies, which is alright, but the spooky lo mein is also in the mall, and is about 1/4 the cost, for more adventures per fullness, which means it should be giving me that instead of the key-lime pies, anyway.
I apologize if I am totally missing the point of this script, or what it's supposed to do, but I just want to try and understand the differences, and weather or not it's truly giving out the best meal-plan.