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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 647819" data-attributes="member: 5137">Re: BeerNot so thin. For 13 wine bottles, he's paid off 95% of his operating expenses. Everything after that is 80% profit, and, after padding and supplies, he's got room for about 120 bottles worth, for a total profit of around 1,700 argur.It definitely influenced it.No, he has a much better reason: beer isn't as profitable as cheese, flour, "Aglaonis prime smoked meat", and a dozen other things, by weight or volume. Theralis, keep in mind, doesn't produce enough of the necessities themselves, they have to import it. Uridates and other merchants like him are the primary importers.Beer is also a riskier venture, since Theralese citizens view beer as a "beggar's drink", making it a hard sell in any case. Which isn't to say that Uridates doesn't enjoy a good beer! But he is less provincial than the people he sells to, and he knows his markets.Note: Uridates would not be the one to sow such changes, but he'd be the first to jump on it if it looked profitable. And Greppa may manage to instigate the first few minikegs of trade between the two city-states. At which point Uridates may become the Merchant Prince of Alcohol or some such, a nicely profitable title he'd be gleeful to possess.</blockquote>