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hesperidian cider
mortosthegodly
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2/2/2012
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has anyone actually purchased it? does it truly provide immortality?
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Thomas Puz
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2/7/2012
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As Sir Fred mentioned at the top, we ran the numbers a few months back. At the time, the "Pygmalion" storylets were proving to be the most reliable and profitable source of echoes-per-action, so we based our math on them:
>If you were an Exceptional Friend (and bear in mind, they didn't come into being until mid-2011) and spent every single one of your daily allotted action points on grinding the Pygmalion quest for Echoes (your standard 80 actions points plus the bonus 20 for the Tweet/FB "echoing"), you would come up with a little over 112 Echoes per day (1.12Echos/action X 100 Actions).
>>Given that Hesperidean Cider costs 160,000 Echoes, at the above rate of Echoes/Actions, it would take 1,428-and-a-half days of grinding to afford H.C. That's nearly 4 YEARS. EBZ is ~3 years old, so barring an "Act of Eaten", the Cider is Impossible to obtain.
=>Anyway, my theory is in line with the 'admission' Owlor noted about the 1,000-Fate quest; The Cider is a Trap (at least at this point in time). It's coded in so that anyone whom obtains it is instantly flagged by the system as hacking/abusing an exploit. They are then arrested, taken to Mr. Irons & and Properly Kneecapped.
Is it still a great in-story motivator/plot-macguffin? Yes.
Could it possibly have future functions in-game? Undoubtedly.
But mechanically, it's like the Ark of the Covenant.
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Owlor
Posts: 152
2/2/2012
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Is anyone even trying to farm money towards it? I kinda hope that they will include a way to send Echoes or money-earning items between players in a future update, if that is the case, I'm going to form a Hesperidean Cider-farming secret society. (in the interest of fairness, the one getting the cider would have to befall on an alt-account reprsenting the group with a password avaiable for all the members, so it wold have to be purely for scientific reasons.)
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"He never really loved her. Or her money. He wanted her secrets."
Jack Owlfisher's profile (@Owlor on twitter)
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Endy
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2/7/2012
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yeah, someday one hopes : )
It also struck me that the fact that it is a cider, suggests there are immortal yeast running around out there...
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sonantem aeternum ad terram
Through the darker shadows.
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