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[K-64]

Eh, I'll take my caffeine in the forms of copious amounts of energy drinks. Sure I now suffer withdrawl symptoms (headaches, difficulty concentrating, etc.) when I've not had caffeine for a few hours, but it's not much of a problem, really

[Archduke Astro]

(headaches, difficulty concentrating, etc.)

Remember that caffeine is a powerful, ummmm, diruretic. That causes significant dehydration, which will aggravate loss of water in brain tissues all the more, which causes headaches all by itself. It's annoying to have to drink plenty of water after enjoying either coffee or tea, but I hate potentially having my productivity impaired by persistent headaches. Learned that lesson decades ago.

[WKOB]

In the fashion of this thread being a suggestion, which it obviously isn't at this point , it's only recently that coffee was a common place, affordable product. Cocoa beans are not the easiest crop to cultivate and it used to be that only the richest people had the exquisite luxury of eating chocolate and drinking coffee.
Something tells me the average Hegemony Mechanic can't quite afford it.

[Hyph_K31]

-snip- Something tells me the average Hegemony Mechanic can't quite afford it. -snip-

Indeed! I should think that anyone who is not in a position of importance (the afore mentioned mechanic) would probably make due with some sort of caffeine concentrate pill/power (Snuff!). Although it would probably be synthetic caffeine, or some other cheap drug with the same effect. whilst the higher ups (like the tritach CEO) get to sip on their imported Terran coffee (I doubt humans would ever leave earth (as a race) without taking coffee beans with them.

Hmmm, that would mean if would be very lucrative to be a coffee merchant/producer. And because of the high value of coffee beans, they would probably be very popular with pirates.

Black-market coffee 

And knowing pirates, they probably grind it into powder and mix a little rust in

[WKOB]

I am hoping for coffee and other sorts of things to be products in the economy at a later date.

EVE may be boring as sin but they got trading and production right.

[Hyph_K31]

I wonder what other products would be of importance in the starfarer universe, other than the obvious tech market.

Who know what kinds of horrible space bacteria you might come across.

[CrashToDesktop]

Urrrg....two and a half hours of sleep last night.  Still no coffee, but I'm definitely grumpy today.

[Upgradecap]

Just had two and a half cups of coffee. Gotta say, it was all dark, no milk. Tasted great.


But ofcourse, now my brain is going top-speed

[CrashToDesktop]

So that's how Upgrade is everywhere at once on the forums...interesting...

[Upgradecap]

So that's how Upgrade is everywhere at once on the forums...interesting...

It's not everyday i drink two cups of coffee.

I have to say, i feel dizzy because of that much coffee now.

[Hyph_K31]

OT please

I don't mind you guys talking about how you drink coffee, but could at least contribute a little something to the thread?

[Upgradecap]

Title says COFFEE!
 And us talking about coffee is OT?

*confused*

[Hyph_K31]

Yes, that is the title, but the theme of discussion was intended to be about the existence of coffee (and related substances) in the starfarer universe.

Check a few of mine and Austupaio's posts.

[Aleskander]

Just had two and a half cups of coffee. Gotta say, it was all dark, no milk. Tasted great.


But ofcourse, now my brain is going top-speed

Only 2?
Lightweight

[Archduke Astro]

Since "the Sector" that is featured in this game has only had a human presence in it for a mere handful of decades prior to the stargates going off-line, and that there are tantalizing passing references to substantial limits on the availablility of vital food and potable water on account of not enough agro-worlds being fully terraformed prior to stargate loss, it therefore seems really unlikely to me that coffee beans grown as a cash crop / luxury item are going to exist here in anything other than tiny quantities, or at all. With so frighteningly few planets being able to grow the foodstuffs for even basic sustenance, "Starfarer java" is going to be waaaaay down the list.

I hope to be proven wrong about this by later unveiling of the main body of Ivaylo's game lore, but at present I'm none too optimistic. A cosmos without coffee is hardly worth living in -- no wonder the Hegemony's system defense fleet is so cranky.