User blog comment:Willbachbakal/Singleplayer Gene Tonics/@comment-3567720-20110703141443/@comment-1330314-20110706160458

You're not getting paid to use Fountain of Youth, as far as I can remember. You're also missing my point completely: spending time doing nothing within a videogame is not an acceptable tradeoff in any case. No matter how generous the reward, you cannot force the player to get bored in order to reap the rewards.

I don't see your point with Booze Hound. Drinking blurs your vision, which just makes it much harder to see and aim if you're getting attacked. How you choose to cope with the vision problem is up to you. That is, you have an actual choice between exploring and risking getting caught drunk, or standing in a corner. With Fountain of Youth, your only option is to stay in the same place for an extended period of time. Also, unlike water, alcohol comes in limited supply, so you'll eventually run out.