Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30638561-20131225043223/@comment-24108228-20131225222701

To put it bluntly, this is one of the best ideas you have come up with. I would love a way to boost speed, and it would be an incredible trading item for me to mass produce, and sell to rich buyers (they would buy them by the dozen for a cheap transport boost). However, it is very OP due to the realism you have given it, over balance and general fairness.

Firstly, a speed boosting drug drink should require chemistry, as it is rather OP for use in a raid if it could just be made in a few seconds. From what I read, it negatates the affect of armour slowing, allowing for lazy people to just use steel instead of mithril, and even allows you to easily outpace someone running away while in your steel armour. This would be a game changing mechanic if it was added, and unlike the hot air balloon, a good one. But if it can be made by anyone, at anytime (e.g, as a quick stop at bento while heading to a target for a raid), it would be OP, so it should have chemistry requirement, despite the horrific unrealism. (Oh no, the medicinal tea requires chemistry! Oh the humanity!).

And why not snow water? It needs a use, and this is the sort of thing that would benefit from it. Just one stop at spire, collect about 100 snow, as it is foraged just as quick as sand, then that is done for the game. Finally a use, and a good one too, helping make your speed boost less of a 'one stop at flax island' item. Plus, it's realistic! (Instant TheRnizam bonus).

Referring to Innovated's post, I too feel that clay needs more uses, and a clay cup would help with that, and prevent mass producing it by sitting on bento with some snow water and just making glass cups for tea, though the teapot acting like a cheese bin and taking an age would just be a pain. I am not against having a teapot function as the iron cheese bin equivilant of tea, but I don't want it to be too timely, as having 15 teapots in my inventory just so I can have enough tea to trade with is a pain to keep track of. How long should the teapot take to process tea? No teapot, just crafting and instant creation. 10 seconds 30 seconds 1 minute 2 minutes 5 minutes 10 minutes (iron cheese bin) Over 10 minutes The post was rather unclear, so I would like to mention that if your teapot was actually just a way to get tons of tea with only one set of ingredients, that is far to OP. I interpreted it in two ways, one of which was too OP to be the right one.

If it has a speed boost, it shouldn't have a decent hunger restoration. It's a drink, and should be treated as such. Berry juice and apple juice dont restore 20 hunger each, even though they are cheaper. The thirst is understandable, but tea restores more hunger than mackerel, and is a drink, not a food. It also shouldn't have 2 portions, as a speed boost is strong enough without two uses.

And I still like the idea, the above is just me pointing out everything I dislike about it. I could write a much longer text wall on what I like, but that would be rather pointless as it would not help with anything. Dont be mislead by my 5 paragraph rant, the idea is great.