I recently noticed that kolmafia (version 13.8) does the following, and am confused by its logic. If I type
> acquire knob stir-fry
It purchases a knob stir-fry from the mall at price 1100 meat.
However, I am fairly certain that it would be cheaper to create the knob stir-fry myself, using a chef-in-the-box. The ingredients are:
1 knob mushroom - 430
1 herbs - 64
1 spices - 130
2 chef uses
I estimate the cost of a chef use to be 62 meat (mall price 5500 / 90 uses per chef). Therefore, the total cost of making a knob stir-fry is only 748 meat.
I am wondering if there is maybe some setting that mafia uses for the value of using a chef (or bartender) that I may have set too high? I looked in both the global and character prefs files and couldn't find anything obvious, but I don't really know what I am looking for...
I also tried setting valueOfAdventure=50 and requireBoxServants=false, and it still continues to buy knob stir-fry, even after closing and restarting mafia. I found this really puzzling, as even if it places a large value on a chef, I would think it should have burned an adventure to cook with these settings.
Are my calculations crazy, or is mafia doing something strange here? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> acquire knob stir-fry
It purchases a knob stir-fry from the mall at price 1100 meat.
However, I am fairly certain that it would be cheaper to create the knob stir-fry myself, using a chef-in-the-box. The ingredients are:
1 knob mushroom - 430
1 herbs - 64
1 spices - 130
2 chef uses
I estimate the cost of a chef use to be 62 meat (mall price 5500 / 90 uses per chef). Therefore, the total cost of making a knob stir-fry is only 748 meat.
I am wondering if there is maybe some setting that mafia uses for the value of using a chef (or bartender) that I may have set too high? I looked in both the global and character prefs files and couldn't find anything obvious, but I don't really know what I am looking for...
I also tried setting valueOfAdventure=50 and requireBoxServants=false, and it still continues to buy knob stir-fry, even after closing and restarting mafia. I found this really puzzling, as even if it places a large value on a chef, I would think it should have burned an adventure to cook with these settings.
Are my calculations crazy, or is mafia doing something strange here? Any help would be greatly appreciated.