Teamwork/Dreamwork Update 0.2.9

Patch 0.2.9

Teamwork/Dreamwork is now live.  Customize your cooks and watch them bond and grow!

New features:

Abilities:

Characters can now learn abilities from ability books.

Ability books can be earned as rewards.  Different locations drop different books.

The School can now be unlocked from the Side "Back to School" after reaching Rep 5 in the Restaurant.  Similar to the shop this has one random lesson a day, though you can purchase multiple copies.

Lono:

The new character, Lono can be unlocked by finishing "Lono Preview", a placeholder Side.  First complete the side "In Search of Fresher Greens" to unlock the new map location.

Lono comes with a new sync style "Market Fresh"

Support:

Finishing a day increases the support level between your cooks.  Hitting certain values unlocks support events you can view from the map.

Support level is currently capped at "C"

Demo/tutorial:

The demo from Summer con is now in the build proper for those looking for a quick snack rather than the full buffet.

The tutorial missions

UI:

The prediction UI now appears to show estimated completion time, crit chance, and predicted quality when you hover a dish or cook over a location

Started implementing on hover effects in the kitchen. More to come.

"?"s now show up when a cook is idle and time unpauses

The mission selector on the map now is more clear which item is highlighted

Balance and Other Changes:

Dishes gain "Resistance" the more quality they have.  Resistance slows down progress and lowers crit rate.  The better the food the harder it is to make improvements!  Should help with scaling out balance as the game gets longer.

Special Twists now give a 20% quality bonus, up from 10% for all other twists.

Pot of Gold base quality increased to reflect difficulty of maximizing it's potential.

Fresh tickets have a chance to order "Chef's Choice" which is any dish you want.  Should help smooth out your flow!

Time limits have universally gone up to account for balance changes and be more friendly to newer players.  These will tighten up and get more difficult over time!

VIP missions (the ones where you serve one awesome dish) have been made a bit easier.

Fixed a bug preventing more than one tough customer per mission

Bunch of little changes and bug fixes.