Revision as of 06:01, 19 February 2009

Hobos like to drink. I bet you didn't know that, not many people do. And just like real hobos, so do we. You'll be able to train your drinking stat starting with your mission to Canbodia.

At this point, little is known about the drinking stat. It resembles a new form of T, a way to train your stats at a cost. It is currently a very large cash sink as well. As a result, the opinions on the best ways to train drinking are varied.

Drinking: Why You Should Get Hammered NOW

Your Liver and You

When drinking, it is important to keep an eye on your current Blood Alcohol Content (BAC). At any point, you can view your current BAC in your home. Currently, the maximum healthy BAC is 0.2. Should you go over 0.2 BAC, you will LOSE drinking stat instead of gaining it; thus, if you were to drink something giving 0.04 BAC while you had 0.17 BAC or more, you would lose drinking stat.

Every 15 minutes, or 10 minutes for donators, your BAC will drop by 0.01. As a result, it takes about 300 minutes (5 hours), 200 minutes (3 hours, 20 minutes) for donators, for your BAC to recover from 0.2 to 0.

There's a Time and a Place for Everything

Booze is unlocked for consumption by completing the opening mission of the third adventure set. Each mission completed unlocks at least one more beverage (or so it seems).

The exception to the above is a single Ruiner's Rum which is obtained during your journey in the Second City.

Not Just For College Students

Why should you train your drinking stat, you might wonder. Stop wondering, it is pretty obvious. The drinking stat, beyond being a nifty new stat that you will watch rise in awe, drinking some of the higher ranks drinks provide semi-insignificant increases to your fighting stats. Per stat point, however, drinking is not incredibly efficient.

There are some concerns about how the stat gain is formulated. As of this writing, we've been receiving counter-intuitive reports from hobos that higher intelligence and higher drinking stats give less fighting stats than hobos with less drinking stats. The author's theory is that this is to compensate low-level hobos for their dedication. However, this is groundless speculation.

Liquor: It Costs Too Much and Ruins Families

The thriving liquor industry in the Second City is a monument to the success of hobos everywhere. Unfortunately, that said, it is an expensive hobby. As we have defined the cost of a Crudweiser, and, by association, all other drinks, we can now make long term estimations of the cost of training your drinking stat. As a result of this, your drinking experience may be hampered by your lack of financial freedom. But hey, everything has it's price.

There are several schools of thought regarding drinking training:

• Slow and Steady: Use the low level alcohols (currently, this is Crudweiser, but the future of drinking may change that). Takes longer, but costs significantly less.
• Ball to the Wall: Use the best of the best. In terms of early drinking, this would appear to be Rank 2 alcohols (Goonsack and Albino Ale, 4 times the cost, twice as fast). In terms of several days after that, it would appear to be the Rainbow Road (20 times the cost, slightly less than 5 times as fast).
• I Just Don't Care: Not training it. Teetotling lameasses. This opinion exists because drinking doesn't seem to provide any benefit. Thankfully, they are wrong.

As a note, increasing your drinking stat seems to increase the pitiful fighting gains from alcohol. Not by much. As a result of this, some of the values for the liquor may be off by several points; while we have attempted to compensate for this, feel free to inform a Wikiauthor if you can confirm any details.

I Drink And I Smash Because I Love

Contrary to the opinions of the teetotling lameasses indicated in the last section, there does seem to be a benefit to drinking. Not the stat, but actually being drunk. It seems, similar to rats' sprint ability, to grant an extra attack from time to time as you stumble drunkenly towards your enemy. While this might not seem like a huge benefit, one free swing from you means one swing less for them.

What's On Tap?

All prices are relative to the cost of your Crudweiser, the basic drink. The formulas are as follows:

CrudWeiserPrice (CW) = 257.5 + (YourLevel * 2.5)

UpperDrinkPrices = CW * (DrinkRank * 2)

These figures are then rounded down to the next integer.