It indicates the amount of food items you earned when you collect them from enemy drops. Positions itself a line below the HUD Points Indicator with a brown number color. Costs around 300 keys to buy.
Here’s a pic for example
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Reason is that some cuisine items looks way too similar on each other like
The spacecraft is already flooded with point numbers (if HUD Point Indicator is equipped), so I think it’s quite tangled. I suggest displaying it at somewhere emptier, like above the HUD showing the number of food in the bottom-left corner. (I’m lazy to design but you can imagine right?)
Actually it’s the opposite, Fractorial did in fact mean the amount of food you get from collecting one. Not the score you get. That would just be a score indicator but more useless.
Edit: right, as for the idea itself, well for one it’s way too overpriced. For a price of 300 keys, you can pay for a HUD item that will do nothing to help you. You will always just collect all the food you can and there is never a case where you will try to be selective about which food you want to get, because you’ll simply go for all of it. Overall the item seems fairly useless, but if you really wish to have it added, it needs an insane price cut. This thing doesn’t deserve to cost even 100 keys, let alone 300.
I’m feeling bad for future mobile players because that stuff impacted performance quite much in CI episodes and I never bothered to check if it’s still the case for CIU.
Wow, I’ve noticed a ridiculous problem. Since it’s almost impossible to collect 2 food at the same time, the HUD will actually spamming +1 +1 +1 insanely fast when you collect a bunch of food one by one. But it’s very hard to determine the gap to group the food collected.
Suggested solution: Showing how many food you collected the entire wave after finish the wave instead?