#baldwinning

like, if you put a stack of 2 items in, it’ll take 30 min base time for the first + 30 minute base time for the second + 5 min “stacking time”. & each additional item is another 5 minutes of stacking time.

so a stack of 3 would take 1 hour & 40 minutes (as opposed to 1 hr & 30 minutes if you did them all individually). a stack of 7 would be 4 hours, up from 3.5 - you could reduce one more item if you were reducing them all separately, but doing it in bulk is a tradeoff some players would be willing to make.

that way, there’s a cost associated with brewing larger quantities of items at a time - after a certain point, it starts to be worse for you to brew in large quantities, because you’re losing the chance to do an entire other brew, but it still allows players the chance not to waste brew time while they’re asleep, or at school or work & unable to access the site as often as players who spend a great deal of time online. 

the stacking time doesn’t have to be 5 minutes exactly, or w/e, there could be modifications. but. for reducing items in bulk i think it’d be practical.