October 3309 Booze Cruise - A new record - again
18 Oct 2023Netchild
Ooops, we did it again.Neither me personally, nor one of my carriers was involved in the cruise, but our Sommeliers did a great work. They managed to beat our last record of 117 carriers participating and a total of 2,342,234t of wine (a profit of 651,141,052,000 credits). This time we had 147 carriers emptied (142 unique, so 5 which did the trip more than once), delivering 3,098,661t of wine for a profit of 793,257,216,000 credits. That's roughly 140,000,000,000 credits more profit than our previous record. This corresponds to about 11,067 deliveries in a Python (previously 8,366).
It also means each inhabitant at the Peak got about 20.66t of wine. That corresponds to about 16,526.19 wine bottles or 12,394.64l per inhabitant. That's a grand total of 2,478,928,800 wine bottles, or 1,859,196,600l.
For those preferring boxes of wine, it means 8,981.63 boxes of wine per inhabitant, or 20,208.66l.
As we still don't know what they do with all this wine, and there is still strong believe that they swim in it:
- if they fill olympic-sized swimming pools from bottles, they may have filled 743.68 swimming pools (which means about 201 people per pool if distributed evenly)
- if they fill olympic-sized swimming pools from boxes, they may have filled 1,212.52 swimming pools (which means about 174 people per pool if distributed evenly)
For those which don't know what our Booze Cruise is, we have an explanation of it on our bulletin board.
And for those independent carrier owners which came up to the Peak on their own and reserved the wine on their FC for themselves, a little observation we make every cruise and which is confirmed by those which we are able to convince to join us on the cruise:
- as a carrier owner you can not even break even from selling wine from your FC, you need to haul yourself (about 5 python runs) to break even
- do not botter to sell the wine from your FC at max-price (see the point above), either sell it at the default value, or at min-value (the last one is beneficial for those people in no matter which squadron to boost the trade-rank in the squad-leaderboard)
- unloading a carrier alone in 24h to be able to get back with the FC to the bubble on the amount of Tritium you brought up, is a lot of stress, it will exhaust you, and most likely you will not be able to do it... 82 python runs are required to empty 23kt, this means if you are there for 48h without sleep, you have 35 minutes per run... with 2 working days of 8h and 6h of sleep in-between this goes down to 19 minutes per run... yes, this is can be done, but you are nearly dead afterwards... we've been there, we know how it feels, don't make the same error
- it doesn't matter from where you buy wine, forget about "my FC", "your FC" or "the FC of a stranger", think rather in "the next FC with wine will arrive once the empty FC has left the system"
- we don't force anyone to get into our squad or to stay in our communication channels, we simply provide a place to coordinate carrier movement, a place to see which FC is doing the next wine unloading, a place to have fun with other traders (a lot of people come for the profits, but stay for the experience in the community), we only ask to keep the communication family friendly
- we always had enough wine up there to cover the entire PH for several hundred Cmdrs, you will not miss out on profits... and we share with everyone!
- the most beneficial behavior at the Peak during a Booze Cruise for all is to join the community and to cycle as many carriers through the system as possible by opening all the wine to everyone, so that the first traffic jam at the system before the Peak clears up and more wine can enter the system (even on EDH/console carriers)... we provide shuttle services between the big bulk of the traffic jam and the Peak, we provide STC, we provide rescue operations (you undocked by accident or missed the jump and are stranded in a system which you can't leave without a FC, no problem, we organize a pick-up, you miscalculated the Tritium requirements, no problem, we help you)
- feel free to join our coordination channels during a BC to see how much fun it is to do a cruise together with us, instead of doing it alone, you can first simply read and get an impression, and decide if you want to join the fun or not
Oh... BTW.... no Thargoid was sighted up there at the Peak. If you want to feel safe, feel free to join us next time.