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Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by Taluntain, Apr 6, 2005.

  1. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    What we asked:

    Q: How much alcohol does your main character normally consume when he or she visits and inn or a tavern?
    (733 votes total)

    My main character doesn't drink alcohol (222) 30%
    He or she only drinks as much as it is necessary to gain information (162) 22%
    He or she varies in his/her drinking habits (116) 16%
    Only a couple of drinks or ales (88) 12%
    He or she drinks until she passes out (88) 12%
    Enough to get visibly intoxicated (57) 8%

    (Yes, this was Sorvo's poll idea, in case it isn't obvious.)

    The majority of poll participants (30%) claim, interestingly enough, that their main characters don't drink any alcohol at all when visiting taverns or inns.

    A rational 22%, however, have their main characters drink only as much as it is necessary to gain information.

    16% of those who voted say that their main character's drinking habits vary.

    The options of main characters only having a couple of drinks or ales and drinking until passing out each got the exact same number of votes, so we have 12% twice here.

    Lastly, 8% of poll participants' main characters drink enough to get visibly intoxicated when in taverns or inns.

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    Taluntain, Apr 6, 2005
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    It is kind of funny really, I have had my characters drink to obtain rumours going all the way back to the first CRPG I ever played - Bard's Tale. However, in all of those games I don't think I have ever actually heard any rumours that actually were useful - it is always the same - the information is invariably virtually useless, vague and/or incredibly obvious.

    Actually, in Bard's Tale drinking served the dual purpose of recharging your bard's ability to sing so it wasn't as if you were really wasting money like you do in the Baldur's Gate games. Still, I continue to have my characters :beer: away. ;)
     
    JSBB, Apr 6, 2005
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  3. Harbourboy

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    I've never seen any game where drinking alcohol gets you any useful information - just the same rumours you get from hassling peasants.

    In Icewind Dale II and Neverwinter Nights there are places where you have to drink a few in order to win a challenge but otherwise drinking seems to be useless.

    On a side note - what is the purpose of all the ale and spirits that you find in barrels and chests throughout Neverwinter Nights? Is there any point in keeping it?
     
    Harbourboy, Apr 6, 2005
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  4. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    I guess you can imagine that your protagonist gets drunk on it after the game's over. That's called role-playing. :shake:
     
    Taluntain, Apr 6, 2005
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