IFKNLOVEHONEY Posted August 7, 2023 Report Share Posted August 7, 2023 Dear Governor, Great news! Your shipment of Efstratios Queen Bees (Apis mellifera cecropia) packed by our wonderful busy bees at Efstratios Honey is pending pick up by our courier at Agia Marina. As soon as it is picked up and scanned by our courier we will send the air-tracking information including an estimated time of arrival at your office in Pygros. We at Efstratios Honey wish you the best of luck in your repopulation efforts! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Honey A beginner/intermediate money maker TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Conception 1.1. Roleplay implications/story influences 2. Potential balancing 2.1. Product Specifics 2.2. Pricing 3. Epilogue --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conception Honey, is an intermediate legal money maker with illegal implications. Honey would be a field-gatherable item (Raw Honey) able to be produced into three distinct products. On the legal end of the spectrum we have Lemnos Honey. This functions as the beginner route - much like legal Weed Field into Dispensary. This would require the partitioning or introduction of an additional building (or NPC such as PCP) to operate as a processing facility. This would net the smallest profit out of the three but provide a new beginner money-maker alongside Weed Field. Illegally, we have two potential end products. 1. Mad Honey; and 2. Mead Mad Honey functions as our narcotic alternative utilising an already established drug field alongside the new Honey Field. Mad Honey is a mixture of Dark Fungi and our Raw Honey to make a potent psychoactive drug favoured for its easy consumption - a consequence of the rich honey farmed. In order to avoid the need to add more objects, this should be processable at the LSD Sheet Factory as another scroll-menu option (not unlike the multiple options offered at Spirit Distillery). I imagine this being the highest upfront profit product able to be produced. Unlike LSD however, being a 'food' item this should be sellable to Wong's keeping in line with his theme. Mead functions as our 'passive' money maker. This proposal would remove the long-forgotten Whiskey varieties offered in the game currently. Its unique identifiers being a two-component alcohol - being only Water and Honey and an extremely long aging time to balance the two-component nature of the alcohol. Obviously, Mead, not being a Spirit would not make much sense to be distilled at the Spirit Distillery, however, in line with being a replacement for Whiskey and not wanting to create more entities than needed should still be 'distilled' at the Spirit Distillery. Keeping in line with the theme of Spirit Distillery a name change to Fortified Mead or Honey Jack may be appropriate here. I see Mead (Fortified Mead/Honey Jack) aging as such (aging quantity same as Whiskey): Stage 1: Young Mead Stage 2: Developing Mead Stage 3: Drinkable Mead Stage 4: Maturing Mead Stage 5: Mature Mead Stage 6: Aged Mead Roleplay implications/Story influences The conception behind this money-maker came with a chance tasting of a peculiar honey varietal: Honey Hasapis, a monovarietal thyme honey, produced in Altis' real life counterpart Lemnos. At the time not knowing about Lemnos nor its connection to Arma 3 I investigated Honey Hasapis and learnt of its origin point's connection to the game we all hate. So, with that the cogs began to turn. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Potential Balancing Quick side note: I am not in anyway shape or form a developer or have prior experience with such, as thus, everything suggested is that - a suggestion. The Asylum development team is more than capable of balancing and ensuring everything runs smoothly and earnestly deserve a little more respect in this regard. Product Specifics - Raw Honey and Lemnos Honey In the vein of being beginner friendly I think risk here should be mitigated, however, potentially making this another field that can be made illegal by the Governor like Weed may add some much needed risky element Additionally, maybe making the Governor make a conscious decision between making Weed legal or Honey legal may add some interesting gameplay elements and action economy to becoming a governor - Mad Honey Outside of requiring two components, one being in an easily ambushable KOS zone, I think Mad Honey can be additionally balanced by requiring two process cycles at LSD Factory. The first cycle producing Unsafe Mad Honey (unable to be sold, representing an unrefined version of the final product) and a second process producing Mad Honey. - Mead (Fortified Mead/Honey Jack) I think Mead will be controversial in the sense that it is a two-component alcohol, meaning; - 1: You can produce more of it due to weight; and - 2: It will be cheaper to produce, no longer requiring the most expensive component to alcohol In an effort to combat the first option, we can make honey weigh 2 per item. Bringing the completed item weight to 3 per, bringing it back in line with other alcohol varieties. As for the second issue, I'm unsure of how to balance this without removing thematic and unique elements to the alcohol. Most notably, honey in an unrefined, unfiltered raw version can harbor wild yeasts which allow for the fermentation. However, we can potentially add another balancing factor in the form of bolstering the final product price to compete with or exceed 25 Year Scotch but implement a failure aspect like when you break a lockpick. During the distillation or during the aging, the wild yeasts could 'fail' causing the product to be lost or maybe de-aged to the previous stage. Pricing All prices are suggestions and may not represent an understanding of the economical ramifications to the money maker. Lemnos Honey: $300 (sold to Market) Justification Lemnos Honey is designed to be a more beginner friendly money-maker. Ideally to work alongside Weed but not overtake it. At $300 and a weight of 2, a carryall backpack (96 weight / 2 = 48 x 300) equals $14,400 per backpack - enough to get you on your feet and enough to scale out if sold in bulk. Mad Honey $850 (sold to Wong's) Justification Mad Honey is quite literally the mixture of Dark Fungi and Raw Honey. Representing this by taking the current price of LSD Pills ($550) and Lemnos Honey ($300) and combining the two ($850) seems reasonable enough for a double-processed drug that requires you to delve into the Dark Fungi mine/pit. Mead (Fortified Mead/Honey Jack) $100 (Stage 1) $150 (Stage 2) $200 (Stage 3) $400 (Stage 4) $550 (Stage 5) $980 (Stage 6); or $1000 (Stage 6 alternative) Justification As explained above I believe Mead (Fortified Mead/Honey Jack) to be a fitting replacement to Whiskey and as such I don't see the prices needing to change much from that. However, as also mentioned, if a failure state was to be added prices should be bolstered to compete with 25 Year Scotch or to exceed to balance out the extra work requiring to be put in. Epilogue You've reached the end... congrats! Look, evident by my name I love honey - I'm an enthusiast, a homebrewer and all around bee guy. I think this gives the opportunity to explore some new ways we can use pre-existing money makers and give the opportunity to fill out some of the more undeveloped areas of the map (such as the North Eastern quarter containing Sofia). Plus, who doesn't love exploring a new money maker when they come around on Asylum? -IFKNLOVEHONEY. Louie, Bag Of Funyuns, Bush Tiger and 29 others like this Link to comment
Kelly Posted August 7, 2023 Report Share Posted August 7, 2023 How much time do you have on your hands XD this is amazing zdeat, rumrunner7777, Ruffian and 8 others like this Link to comment
Blank Posted August 7, 2023 Report Share Posted August 7, 2023 this is actually a good idea for new players to get a income and a footing in the server Mandalorian 2.0, rumrunner7777, Ruffian and 1 other like this Link to comment
Ebola Posted August 7, 2023 Report Share Posted August 7, 2023 I want this added solely because of this guy's name and the picture at the end Donald, Chris Peacock, Mandalorian 2.0 and 4 others like this Link to comment
王 rando 王 Posted August 7, 2023 Report Share Posted August 7, 2023 never before have i realized how much id like to rob a truck of honey in my lifetime. +1 Kawaii, Mandalorian 2.0, IFKNLOVEHONEY and 1 other like this Link to comment
IFKNLOVEHONEY Posted August 7, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2023 6 hours ago, Kelly said: How much time do you have on your hands XD this is amazing Much time yes but there's no time spent when talking about honey! Mandalorian 2.0 likes this Link to comment
zdeat Posted August 7, 2023 Report Share Posted August 7, 2023 I wonder if this guy likes honey william, IFKNLOVEHONEY, manhua and 2 others like this Link to comment
王 rando 王 Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 1 hour ago, zdeat said: I wonder if this guy likes honey he hates it... Spoiler he hates how much he likes it IFKNLOVEHONEY, zdeat and Sleeper Don like this Link to comment
Ruffian Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 fun idea. i'd love to become a honey farmer. IFKNLOVEHONEY and rumrunner7777 like this Link to comment
Raza Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 Should be implemented based purely off the amount of time this took to type. Defragments, Kelly, IFKNLOVEHONEY and 4 others like this Link to comment
Chris Peacock Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 @ObiWokihire this man as a dev and step down... also if u dont add this ur a bitch and deserve to die Brianbrian, IFKNLOVEHONEY, Mandalorian 2.0 and 1 other like this Link to comment
ObiWoki Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 I just got this in my youtube feed, I guess they are trying to tell me something p.s. looking into refining this to fit exactly into asylum with @Patato. rumrunner7777, Donald, GravL and 2 others like this Link to comment
Patato Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 @goyneyI need a honey/honey comb icon & a mead icon stat Mandalorian 2.0, Bush Tiger, 王 rando 王 and 6 others like this Link to comment
Bush Tiger Posted August 8, 2023 Report Share Posted August 8, 2023 Trist and IFKNLOVEHONEY like this Link to comment
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Mandalorian 2.0 Posted August 9, 2023 Report Share Posted August 9, 2023 i want this to have new players to make money as its not as riskey as weed theses days IFKNLOVEHONEY and rumrunner7777 like this Link to comment
Defragments Posted August 9, 2023 Report Share Posted August 9, 2023 This feels like a setup. Which devs alt account is it? BlackShot, Mitch (IFRIT) and Silver-Spy like this Link to comment
Naked Menace Posted August 10, 2023 Report Share Posted August 10, 2023 what kind of drugs were u smoking to come up with this shit. send dat info over ASAP Link to comment
IFKNLOVEHONEY Posted August 10, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2023 7 minutes ago, Naked Menace said: what kind of drugs were u smoking to come up with this shit. send dat info over ASAP No drugs! Only orange blossom honey and toast at the time of making this post! Bob Danaloo and rumrunner7777 like this Link to comment
Maxedout13579 Posted August 10, 2023 Report Share Posted August 10, 2023 This is beautiful IFKNLOVEHONEY likes this Link to comment
manhua Posted August 10, 2023 Report Share Posted August 10, 2023 Because there is a lot of writing, it is good. Hahaha IFKNLOVEHONEY likes this Link to comment
GravL Posted August 10, 2023 Report Share Posted August 10, 2023 +1 simply because this nice fella seems very interested in honey, and makes me also interested in honey Kernikov and IFKNLOVEHONEY like this Link to comment
Rogue Posted August 11, 2023 Report Share Posted August 11, 2023 A thoroughly refined and explained suggestion... MoLu., Kawaii, zdeat and 11 others like this Link to comment
Louie Posted August 11, 2023 Report Share Posted August 11, 2023 IFKNLOVEHONEY IFKNLOVEHONEY and GravL like this Link to comment
IFKNLOVEHONEY Posted August 11, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2023 35 minutes ago, Louie said: IFKNLOVEHONEY Me too! Louie, rumrunner7777 and Brianbrian like this Link to comment
Mitch (IFRIT) Posted August 12, 2023 Report Share Posted August 12, 2023 23 hours ago, Rogue said: A thoroughly refined and explained suggestion... It itches that scratch IFKNLOVEHONEY and Louie like this Link to comment
Brianbrian Posted August 12, 2023 Report Share Posted August 12, 2023 (edited) 17 hours ago, IFKNLOVEHONEY said: Edited August 12, 2023 by Brianbrian Ur mom ks Link to comment
Ebola Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 This dude came on and made one of the best suggestions ever on this forum and then vanished. Link to comment
Defragments Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 13 minutes ago, Ebola said: This dude came on and made one of the best suggestions ever on this forum and then vanished. Alt accounts 王 rando 王 and .Max like this Link to comment
IFKNLOVEHONEY Posted January 14 Author Report Share Posted January 14 My time is not yet over. The honey shall flow. Keep watching for the buzzing bees. Ebola likes this Link to comment
.Max Posted January 14 Report Share Posted January 14 a developer makes a suggestion and does not even go through with his suggestion 王 rando 王 likes this Link to comment
Hubschrauber Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 You have to admit, that first picture of honey looks really tasty. IFKNLOVEHONEY likes this Link to comment
Junke Posted January 15 Report Share Posted January 15 11 hours ago, Hubschrauber said: You have to admit, that first picture of honey looks really tasty. Everything looks tasty to you Link to comment
IFKNLOVEHONEY Posted January 16 Author Report Share Posted January 16 On 1/7/2024 at 5:19 AM, Defragments said: Alt accounts This buzzing bee only has one account! That is this one. This buzzing bee has no relation to our Queen Bee! Consider me an alate in my nuptial flight of development suggestions! Furthermore, this buzzing bee has something brewing - something big, fantastic and certainly most honeylike. In the meantime... Eat honey! Drink mead! Fill your thoughts with the most sweet of nectar! Link to comment
Hubschrauber Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 22 hours ago, Junke said: Everything looks tasty to you Right back at ya Chunkie. Link to comment
Defragments Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 5 hours ago, IFKNLOVEHONEY said: This buzzing bee only has one account! That is this one. This buzzing bee has no relation to our Queen Bee! Consider me an alate in my nuptial flight of development suggestions! Furthermore, this buzzing bee has something brewing - something big, fantastic and certainly most honeylike. In the meantime... Eat honey! Drink mead! Fill your thoughts with the most sweet of nectar! I actually do love mead Link to comment
IFKNHATEHONEY Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 Not. A. Fan. 王 rando 王, Junke, Nikita and 3 others like this Link to comment
Junke Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 1 hour ago, IFKNHATEHONEY said: Not. A. Fan. Link to comment
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