hmmm, yeah, true...maybe we'd have to secretly stow our ingredients aboard a cargo ship disquised as a medical ship, or on a submarine!!! Or we could use parachutes to drop the cargo behind enemy lines and run out and get it! .....
or you and I could do a USO show, and sell some chocolates to the troops while we sing Yankee Doodle Dandy and wear short shirts and show our shapely legs if we need to get out of trouble or dont want to pay high prices
.
or maybe not... LOL.

Maybe Post-War is the way to go instead of during the war. The 20s was post-WW1, so maybe rebuilding Baumeister Chocolates after the war during the 40s would be the way to go. Baumeister was probably processing food & rations for the troops, and our job would be to lead the company back to its original purpose: chocolate. Instead of "upgrading" the factories, they would need to be "converted" from whatever they were making to support the war effort. And the rivals and villians could be Nazis on the run in really cheesy disguises.

BTW, I LOVE how time progresses in the game, with the new buildings, cars & other background that changes as time passes.

Alevy, I love that idea, of it being post-WWII, and having to rebuild Baumeister once more. That would actually be really really fun, I think. Though, most of the first gen characters would have passed on by that point, unless they found a fountain of eternal life or something...

Mrs. Levy,
I LOVE the idea of Nazis in really cheesy disquises!! That should be it for sure!
And converting the factories, great idea.
....my only thing, is if they bump the story line too fast, the series will run out before we know it, because it will be present time....maybe they could do a pre-quel, where we get to go back to Heironymus is making the original chocolates at the Australian chocolate shop before the whole family feud broke out in the first place. So what, that would put the game where? The 1840-50s?

Okay guys, these were all such GREAT ideas, I copied the entire thread over to corporate PF, to their Game Ideas & Concepts email addy, so if we get a response to our ideas, I'll let you know! I think there are some real WINNERS here!

I was just thinking as I opended the thread "why hasn't anyone suggested a prequel?" Then you did!

And just because the game catches up to modern times doesn't mean it would have to end. Chocolates in Space! Travel by starship & have new recipes with alien ingredients.

Whatever the new game is, I'd like to see a multiplayer feature.

All great ideas, love them love them absolutely love them.

Especially about me and Latte performing in short skirts for the troops......Good idea Latte.

Then Space,oh my...that would be absolutely lovely....I could be the Borg of Chocolates......GREAT....beam up some Cacao and skip haggling, I could just phase them into the blackhole. That'll teach them not to raise the prices on me!

I would like to beable to buy more shops

I would like to see the cost range of making each chocolate. It should be eay to do now that the game shows the cost range of each ingredient & the sellling price range for each Chocolate. (idea from ptdgames).

Maybe Chocolatier 3 could be during the Cold War and if you sell chocolates to Capitalists, Communists won't buy from you and vice versa. And Lattegato, Hieronymus first sold chocolates in a Bavarian shop, not an Australian one.