I just don't see the point. If it's that important, especially now we have sitting (for all those thousands of hours you need to sit in a space game), then just go to the pub, and sod the game.
I don't see the point after doing it once, sitting there for a minute, then going back to do what you were doing before.
I don't want to victimise the op as it's obviously his dream, and I won't deny anyone their dreams like yourself - I just don't want the development to suffer for however many months it takes to develop drinking, and months of bugfixes after. As to me, it takes away from development of other more repeatable and 'useful' game elements.
So whilst I have been a bit blunt, I'm not here for an argument with someone who comes along to disagree with us for the sake of it - I'm just stressing my opinion too - I don't see the point, I really don't.
Now we can sit back and wait for people to attack us though Ratty! Shall we choose now to go for labelling them as white knights, karens, sjws, or shall we choose our own label now? Perhaps we should be fanbois, spelt badly because it's fashionable, or white knights again as an irony?
God I sound really bitter in this post - oh well, I guess it'll fit with the labels! So let's run with it! The floor is yours mate!!!1!one!
I could almost agree, if not for one thing; they had it in Mass Effect, and it worked really well.
I classify this as the sort of content that isn't really worth it in and of itself, but because it's so cheap and easy to implement, and because it has Ripple effects on the rest of the game, it's generally worth doing anyway.
It's like mentioning it's a rainy day in a book; you probably only end up spending one or two sentences talking about the rain, but those two sentences alone color the rest of the chapter, giving it a depth it doesn't have otherwise.
I can totally imagine a group of players going into a station, looking for Missions. Right now, they wander around until they find to the mission they are looking for, and immediately leave. In this potential future, they go in, start looking for Missions, and one person happens to stop at the bar. He gets a drink, then another drink, then another drink, and the next thing you know he's stumbling all over the station while his friends watch and laugh. Soon what was once a five-minute Pit Stop is a 15-minute social moment that is the crowning moment of the day.
And just like talking about the rain, this pleasant experience colors the rest of that day, making the whole gameplay experience better.
It alone won't make the whole game dramatically better, but every little bit of content you add like that slowly improves the game as a whole. Add enough, and you go from a good game to a great game.
