Drinking system (V.5/Ultima "sustenance")
Drinks are recorded in the DB by bottle, which is the game-daily ration. If you drink for sustenance, 30 bottles of the same liquor must be consumed at once, being enough for a real-day. It is possible to drink for fun/specific health as well, in which case individual bottles may be consumed.
Spirits (strong liquor) cannot be consumed for sustenance (30-bottle-lots), only individual bottles, which might have strong health/medicinal benefits. Spirits don't age in the bottle, so despite that there is a wide selection, the vintages don't matter. Often, however, a rare spirit is guaranteed or believed to be the last bottles obtainable of its kind.
Drinking is a large cost item for every character:
- Water is free but very unhealthy (not implemented, automatic if nothing else is consumed)
- Mead costs about 1,000 m/jug and is unhealthy (30,000 m/real-day; 0.9 mil/real-month)
- Beer costs about 3,000 m/bottle (90,000 m/real-day; 2.7 mil/real-month)
- Wine starts from 10,000 m/bottle, although it is expected that the good vintages reach much higher prices
- Spirits start from 10,000 m/bottle, but the ones with medicinal value or imported brands are significantly higher, also the Town is levying a tax on these, as well as many kinds of drinks really, that being the single major source of tax income from V.5 onwards.
For reference, we already have 2 types of wine, one (W1600) costing 33,000 m/bottle and the other (W1600M) costing 67,000 m/bottle. (Costs are calculated using 1 IC == 400,000 m).
Now we sent an emissary to procure some spirits for the celebration:
CLXII (Cognac somehow related to
this monarch)
CVS (Supposedly "Very Special" cognac, but in reality they had better ones as well but so did we (above))
When the High Ambassador entered the Court of the King of France and Navarre, presenting his matter, he was gifted 1,000 bottles of this rare cognac (the actual process of obtaining these treasures is much longer and involved intrigue). (1,000 IC deducted from the King's account). We tasted this cognac and indeed
it was very good.
As for the CVS bottles, 1,000 were able to be procured quite effortlessly from a wholesaler, and now sit in the Town warehouse. Town will sell them at cost (heavily taxed though), maximum 200 bottles per character, at 200,000 m/bottle. (If you want to buy, just do the entries. The item is not restricted, it is quite normal cognac, but it is not obtainable at will as the W1600 wine is.)
Many might think that the
Louis XII cognac could be iconic for the future gameplay, being found only in the best restaurants, marked up to dizzying heights; after all it seems to be quite old, named after a French king, acquired with intrigue (and a hefty IC cost), consumed liberally in the Bicentenary, the event that might happen again after 50 years if the King lives to be so old (84 physical years is not a blessing for everyone). Perhaps. You never know what takes off. Personally we treasure this cognac enough to reserve 500 bottles of it for the current celebration and the future ones. 250 bottles we give away as gifts to characters that play with style, and in our royal opinion deserve to have it. 250 bottles are auctioned publicly starting now, lasting for 48 hours as usual.
Auction: 250*CLXII bottle of cognac
Closes 2015-8-13, 17:00 BCTT
Maximum bid quantity:
- Earls and higher may bid for 50 bottles maximum
- Companies known to have operated good restaurants, 50 bottles max
- Barons/Jungherren may bid for 25 bottles maximum
- Novices-Wizards may bid for 10 bottles maximum
- Lower levels are unworthy to participate in the auction for this fine cognac, sorry.
Minimum bid per bottle: 1.0 mil
Resolution of bids: 0.1 mil
Terms: Higher, then Earlier, price is the same for all and determined by highest non-winning bid.
No more than 1,000 bottles of CLXII will ever be seen in the game, some rumor that there would even be a HoF dedicated to the issue.
