Understanding Taste Calculation

[sidyll 0]

I've finally reached master level in cooking, and I can now see the precise taste offsets. However I'm still having trouble understanding the calculations. Focusing only in sweetness, i.e., I've prepared a sandwich with the following recipes:

A: [-21, -21, -21, -21, 29] => 29
B: [-21, -21, -21, 29] => 29

Both resulted in the same sweetness value, even with one ingredient removed. I have checked past posts such as "Help with Meals", which contains an excellent explanation by Kittychanley. Yet, I'm unable to visualize how an addition of taste values would achieve this result.

With the hope to reduce the test case, I tried two salads:

C: [-21, 29]  => 29
D: [-21, -21] => -21

Again, seems like negative offsets are somewhat ignored. Which contradicts anything I could imagine. I wonder if someone could help enlightening me about this. Thank you in advance!

[sidyll 0]

I checked TFC source code and the combineTastes method of the TEFoodPrep class (which is used in both sandwiches and salads) does in fact use a simple addition with no regards to food weight or anything.

So I think I have figured it out. Considering the offset shown is foodValue - myPreferredValue, there is a number for this subtraction result which could satisfy the prepared food equation: 0. Plain zero.

In other words, my preferred taste for sweetness is probably 21. So, foods with -21 offset make no diference in the final taste at all.

Sorry, had I investigated a little further I would have understood it by myself prior to posting the question.