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Better Bars & Liquor Stores, 1.0.0b Patreon Preview

Added 2023-02-12 22:01:22 +0000 UTC

I've been irritated at how hard it is to incorporate Juice Fizzes and Seltzers into game play. Like, why can't you order one at a bar?

If you want to run a retail store that sells Juice Fizzes, it's pretty hard to manage unless you craft everything yourself. If you place them out of Build/Buy, the packages are empty, etc, since they need the crafting process to make them usable.

And to be honest, the only practical way to make a lot of Juice Fizzes is to become a farmer to grow all the stuff to have enough ingredients.

But what if you just want to have a fizz at the bar with your friends?

Bar Additions

First, I added some features to Bars. It adds all the Juice Fizzes and Seltzers to the Order Drink menu in commercial venues, as well as coffee and tea. NPCs will order these drinks as well, so you will see them drinking bottles, cans, etc.

I also added some Whole Pizzas, so you can order and share a pizza at a bar, as well as some other bar-type food. Plus a Carry-Out menu for "package sales" of fizzes, seltzers and pizzas. Note that prices from the bar Carry-Out menu are a bit
more expensive than usual, since that's usually how that works.

Retail Additions

You can't normally put Juice Fizzes or Seltzers in the Retail Fridge (they're missing the RETAIL_FRIDGE inventory type). So, I'm injecting the RETAIL_FRIDGE inventory type to all the Juice Fizz and Seltzer multi-pack tunings so that you can.

To make it easier to sell fizzes as a retaile without having to be a full-time crafter/farmer, I inject a menu to the Retail Fridge to Restock it with Juice Fizzes and Seltzers (from a wholesaler...you know). If you own the store it's in, you
pay the same as a restocking fee (80% list - perks modifiers).

And my favorite feature, if an NPC owns the retail store, you can visit the store and restock the retail fridge for free! You still need to purchase them from the retail fridge as usual to get at them (at retail prices), but at least you can
get something to buy without having to play a retailer just to set the store up.

MILD NOTE OF CAUTION

I left the Strange Juice brew in the NPC Order Drink Autonomously list, so every now and then, an NPC buys one and then gets 'Strange'. It's a short term 4 hour buff, however, so I'd like to leave it in. I think many of us have seen folks leaving bars in this condition, and it adds to the atmosphere...