If I dissolve a few methanol monohydrate crystals into a glass of water and drink it will I get drunk?

Silaz

Silaz
Or would people not advise this?

Seriously though, I'm finding that my fleet carrier is useful for at least something: It's good for storing up mined resources to sell later when there is a better price available on the market and remembering how long ago it was when we were all asking for storage space to do just this type of thing takes me back a few years and makes me wonder about FD.

Obviously the devs had fleet carriers and storage space planned from a long while back, so it does not require a great stretch of the imagination to assume that the low temperature diamonds gold rush was also planned to get people to buy FC's and ARX. They are called LTD's. And their abundant availability and the 1.7m value was also limited. Coincidence? I think not. So like a sucker I spent two weeks having not played the game for nearly two years cramming lots of LTD mining runs (Not eggsploiting, but did find an egg a few times which was nice) to go from 400m in the bank and about 1.5 billion in assets up to 10bil and afford to rank up to duke by sp*nking millions in bribery and corruption as well as afford that fleet carrier together with a healthy balance, and after more painful post patch painite panning I am getting close to making that storage container of a FC pay for itself. (I'm nearly back to 10 billion credits which is a stupid amount of in game cash IMHO).

Soon I will have a stock of nearly 1000 tonnes of bromelitte, osmium and crystal meth and then I will put the stuff on the market for people who find mining boring but want to get those mining mission material goodies quick and easy and don't mind paying quick cash for the privilege.

Only problem is the few carriers that are selling these goods right now seem not to value their stock very highly, with many asking for less than the galactic average price.

This is not good I will be asking for 200 to 300% galactic average at least for the service to make up my losses and to make the venture pay, and to give me a reason to keep on mining.

There's more. What I would like to see in this game is not just bromylite, osmium and crystal meth missions handing out exquisite focus crystals and bio conductors as rewards but also the other unfavourable and less valuable mined goods like water and oxygen spring to mind to get used as well. Aren't things like water and oxygen not valuable in outer space? Conventional wisdom would say yes, because they are crucial to human survival.

But this is not a conventional game is it now? Painite and suffering is what the citizens of this galaxy live on. Even the poor people who are only millionaires still use low temperature diamonds to encrust thier luxury platinum bathroom fixtures, fittings and furniture with. How they breathe and what these people drink I don't know. What is sumerian for? Surely it must be used for something? Why not stick it in the missions together with the other mined raw goods that are not currently used to add more variety to the mining missions and give my carrier shop stop more of a purpose and variety of goods to stock up on and flog?

Please give us a reason to bring back other mined goods from our mining expeditions, I've had enough painite and suffering for one month.

On a lighter note, now that I've got billions in the bank there is no excuse not to go back to playing in open again seeing as I can afford a gazillion rebuys (I'm a bit of a crap pilot who is easy to kill) and solo is getting so boring now so yeah.

Does anyone else agree?
 
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Northpin

Northpin
Silaz said:
If I dissolve a few methanol monohydrate crystals into a glass of water and drink it will I get drunk?
Or would people not advise this?
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You were already advised not to drink it since it will cause blindness and then death.

But maybe you could use it to increase the performance of your SRV. Who knows, maybe it will work 😇
Earthlings used to use Water-Methanol as a performance booster in supercharged piston engines likes 1300-1400 years ago - so around 1940-2020
 

Sapyx

Sapyx
Silaz said:
If I dissolve a few methanol monohydrate crystals into a glass of water and drink it will I get drunk? Or would people not advise this?
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If you dropped a few crystals of methanol monohydrate into a glass of water, the water would freeze instantly because methanol monohydrate is only formed here on Earth when you drop a mixture of methanol and water into liquid nitrogen. I don't think it's a stable solid at temperatures above 160 K (-113 deg C, or -172 deg F for the North Americans).

So, fortunately for you, you would not be in danger of either accidentally or deliberately drinking it.

As others have stated, methanol will not get you drunk - it'll just kill you. The small amount of methanol you'd get in your glass from "a few crystals" would probably just make you ill, rather than kill you outright. The commonly obtainable "Methylated spirits" (called "denatured alcohol" in North America) is usually about 90% ethanol, 10% methanol - it will get you drunk (from the ethanol) and then kill you (from the methanol).

Silaz said:
What is sumerian for? Surely it must be used for something?
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I think it's kind of racist of you to question the purpose of an entire ethnolinguistic culture. Just because they've been extinct for several thousand years, doesn't make it OK.
 

Silaz

Silaz
Ok, so the consensus seems to be don't drink the crystal meth. But what about my other points? Does anyone agree that more variation in mining missions would be a good thing for the game, and create a better player to player economy via FC trading or are people happy with the way things are? It's just that I can't help thinking that it would be a very minor and easy to implement feature for the devs to add. Fleet carriers must have been a major workload for the team, that's a lot of graphical assets and audio recordings to make for such an addition, surely a few more various missions for some of the the other minable and unbuyable materials we can mine would be a small job to do? No?
 
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Silaz

Silaz
Sapyx said:
I think it's kind of racist of you to question the purpose of an entire ethnolinguistic culture. Just because they've been extinct for several thousand years, doesn't make it OK.
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I have read up on Sumerian culture, it was a pun of Samarium not a racist slur. The people of ancient Sumer were the first civilisation to have kings, and as I'm sure you are aware they invented the first written word with cuniform script. Although most of the clay tablets that have been discovered are nothing but inventories and reciepts many tell the stories of the first mythologies previously only handed down by word of mouth, and have been used as a basis for later mythologies, such as the Christian bible. You could say that the old testament was a reboot of earlier works.
 
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Sapyx

Sapyx
When they added the new hotspots and associated rare minerals, they simply weren't added to the mission database. I don't know why. I suspect that it was FD's intention that, even in a "hotspot"", the rare minerals would remain rare and it wouldn't be certain that enough would be found to be able to fulfil a mission before th timer ran out. They could have designed a new variety of mining mission which only needed one or two tonnes of the rare things, but that would have been extra work for them. They probably figured that regular non-mission mining profits would be incentive enough.
 

Silaz

Silaz
I find it amusing and it is typical of humanity that humans are too stupid to be trusted with a clean fuel that can be used for cooking, heating and transportation such as ethanol because they can get drunk on it in the same way that humans can't be trusted with plutonium as a fuel (in radioisotope thermoelectric generators) because they would make bombs with it. So we are left with denatured alcohol and only NASA are allowed a tiny little bit of plutonium for powering deep space probes with thorium nuclear reactors out of the question. We are idiots. And we are doomed because of this.
 
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Susanna

Susanna
Silaz said:
Or would people not advise this?

Seriously though, I'm finding that my fleet carrier is useful for at least something: It's good for storing up mined resources to sell later when there is a better price available on the market and remembering how long ago it was when we were all asking for storage space to do just this type of thing takes me back a few years and makes me wonder about FD.

Obviously the devs had fleet carriers and storage space planned from a long while back, so it does not require a great stretch of the imagination to assume that the low temperature diamonds gold rush was also planned to get people to buy FC's and ARX. They are called LTD's. And their abundant availability and the 1.7m value was also limited. Coincidence? I think not. So like a sucker I spent two weeks having not played the game for nearly two years cramming lots of LTD mining runs (Not eggsploiting, but did find an egg a few times which was nice) to go from 400m in the bank and about 1.5 billion in assets up to 10bil and afford to rank up to duke by sp*nking millions in bribery and corruption as well as afford that fleet carrier together with a healthy balance, and after more painful post patch painite panning I am getting close to making that storage container of a FC pay for itself. (I'm nearly back to 10 billion credits which is a stupid amount of in game cash IMHO).

Soon I will have a stock of nearly 1000 tonnes of bromelitte, osmium and crystal meth and then I will put the stuff on the market for people who find mining boring but want to get those mining mission material goodies quick and easy and don't mind paying quick cash for the privilege.

Only problem is the few carriers that are selling these goods right now seem not to value their stock very highly, with many asking for less than the galactic average price.

This is not good I will be asking for 200 to 300% galactic average at least for the service to make up my losses and to make the venture pay, and to give me a reason to keep on mining.

There's more. What I would like to see in this game is not just bromylite, osmium and crystal meth missions handing out exquisite focus crystals and bio conductors as rewards but also the other unfavourable and less valuable mined goods like water and oxygen spring to mind to get used as well. Aren't things like water and oxygen not valuable in outer space? Conventional wisdom would say yes, because they are crucial to human survival.

But this is not a conventional game is it now? Painite and suffering is what the citizens of this galaxy live on. Even the poor people who are only millionaires still use low temperature diamonds to encrust thier luxury platinum bathroom fixtures, fittings and furniture with. How they breathe and what these people drink I don't know. What is sumerian for? Surely it must be used for something? Why not stick it in the missions together with the other mined raw goods that are not currently used to add more variety to the mining missions and give my carrier shop stop more of a purpose and variety of goods to stock up on and flog?

Please give us a reason to bring back other mined goods from our mining expeditions, I've had enough painite and suffering for one month.

On a lighter note, now that I've got billions in the bank there is no excuse not to go back to playing in open again seeing as I can afford a gazillion rebuys (I'm a bit of a crap pilot who is easy to kill) and solo is getting so boring now so yeah.

Does anyone else agree?
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To answer your initial question in your rambling post...

Probably if you had enough 'crystals' but you would also go blind... Along with organ failure and a slow lingering death. The perfect ending to your ED career :sick:
 

NCFCpaul

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Pretty sure there's something about mining going on here, but... TLDR

If you do survive the methanol with any cognitive function maybe try sniffing some glue? That has equally catastrophic effects on a person's health!
 
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