Aging Wine and Cheese

[Jungletoe]

When you age Wine and cheese, the quality should increase. That way you can keep wine in your cellar for a week and have better quality wine.

What do you guys think about it?

[Repercussionist]

Interesting idea. Wine does generally increase in quality over time in real life (although cheese can go bad if left unattended for too long, albeit, it's generally a very long time, depending on the type of cheese), however, as far as implementing it into the game, I'm opposed. This would turn wine-making into a test of endurance. If you create a huge batch of wine and leave it in your cellar for a longer time than your neighbor, then you're going to have a ton of high quality materials that you really didn't do anything to deserve. It might be nice to an extent (say, 1q a day for like 10 days), but as far as an infinite possibility of increase, I vote neigh. Nice thought, though.

PS. I can just imagine someone who quits for a couple months with wine in their cellar then decides to come back and they have q 10923093809 wine. XD

[Delibean]

Possibly it could be affected by the quality of the barrel or bottle in which it resides? That would make it less of a endurance game as previously pointed out, as an infinite increase could eventually become rather insane.

Also something on a more of a parabolic curve might suit - as wines do hit their peaks - with difference for the different kinds of wines should they be implemented (whites and red having a rather different way of fermenting).

[sabinati]

wine is currently effected by the barrel quality when it ferments, so to some extent this is already implemented. ( juice q + barrel q ) / 2 = wine q

as far as aging cheese goes, that's how you get different types of cheese.