Food & Drink
Food
The followed prices are mostly based on General Store prices (again, Grand Exchange won't be considered since it barely counts as lore).
Common ingredients: Grapes 1gp, Cooking apple 36gp, Potato 14-16gp, Banana 2gp, Cabbage 1gp, Redberry 3gp, Garlic 3gp, Cheese 8gp, Milk 12gp, Butter 4gp, Egg 4gp, Cream 19gp, Pot of Flower 14gp, Chocolate 20gp.
Fish: Crayfish 20gp, Sardine 10gp, Herring 6gp, Mackerel 23gp, Trout 20gp, Cod 26gp, Salmon 88gp, Tuna 126gp, Bass 270gp, Lobster 268gp, Swordfish 400gp.
Misc foods: Kebab 1gp-25gp, Cooked Chicken/Meat 5gp, Bread 24gp, Stew 20gp, Cake 50gp, Pizza 200gp, Potato with cheese 350gp.
Drink
Common drinks: 1-3gp for beer, grog, greenmans ale, dragon bitter, asgarnian ale, and wizard mind bomb. Khali brew 5gp, Rangers Aid 25gp, Beer Tank 26gp, Keg of Beer 325gp, Beer (Bandit Camp) 650gp.
Misc: Brandy 6gp, Gin, 2gp, Vodka 5gp, Whiskey 5gp, Jug of wine 128gp, Bottle of wine 500gp.
Analysis
Because store prices are made in light of game mechanics, and not lore, we have to tread carefully on these grounds. A quick glimpse at the prices will show that there is a fair amount logical consistency, and loose comparisons can be made to irl. That said there are at-least two problems: 1) Quite a few prices are a lot higher than they are irl according to PGPE, and 2) There are significant outliers in the data.
For the first problem, we can answer in three ways. Firstly, 1gp is the lowest currency in the game, unlike irl where we have pennies. So naturally foods would be more expensive when there doesn't exist any money worth less than a gp. Another answer is that since Gielinor is loosely based on Medieval times, food would be worth more to get. Lastly, we can answer that in the case of shop prices, which are a game mechanic, we can be very loose and ignore "small" discrepancies, like potatoes being worth 14-16gp and cooking apples 36gp (think pounds to see the problem). I'm too Unaligned to have a forum signature.
Food
The followed prices are mostly based on General Store prices (again, Grand Exchange won't be considered since it barely counts as lore).
Common ingredients: Grapes 1gp, Cooking apple 36gp, Potato 14-16gp, Banana 2gp, Cabbage 1gp, Redberry 3gp, Garlic 3gp, Cheese 8gp, Milk 12gp, Butter 4gp, Egg 4gp, Cream 19gp, Pot of Flower 14gp, Chocolate 20gp.
Fish: Crayfish 20gp, Sardine 10gp, Herring 6gp, Mackerel 23gp, Trout 20gp, Cod 26gp, Salmon 88gp, Tuna 126gp, Bass 270gp, Lobster 268gp, Swordfish 400gp.
Misc foods: Kebab 1gp-25gp, Cooked Chicken/Meat 5gp, Bread 24gp, Stew 20gp, Cake 50gp, Pizza 200gp, Potato with cheese 350gp.
Drink
Common drinks: 1-3gp for beer, grog, greenmans ale, dragon bitter, asgarnian ale, and wizard mind bomb. Khali brew 5gp, Rangers Aid 25gp, Beer Tank 26gp, Keg of Beer 325gp, Beer (Bandit Camp) 650gp.
Misc: Brandy 6gp, Gin, 2gp, Vodka 5gp, Whiskey 5gp, Jug of wine 128gp, Bottle of wine 500gp.
Analysis
Because store prices are made in light of game mechanics, and not lore, we have to tread carefully on these grounds. A quick glimpse at the prices will show that there is a fair amount logical consistency, and loose comparisons can be made to irl. That said there are at-least two problems: 1) Quite a few prices are a lot higher than they are irl according to PGPE, and 2) There are significant outliers in the data.
For the first problem, we can answer in three ways. Firstly, 1gp is the lowest currency in the game, unlike irl where we have pennies. So naturally foods would be more expensive when there doesn't exist any money worth less than a gp. Another answer is that since Gielinor is loosely based on Medieval times, food would be worth more to get. Lastly, we can answer that in the case of shop prices, which are a game mechanic, we can be very loose and ignore "small" discrepancies, like potatoes being worth 14-16gp and cooking apples 36gp (think pounds to see the problem). I'm too Unaligned to have a forum signature.
15-Jan-2016 04:49:21