(edit now the physical and mental anxiety jitters have calmed: Okay, so this... may have been a mistake on our part, but I'm still fairly certain they haven't dropped to Normal quality overnight before? Unless we somehow didn't notice this entire fest until now but that seems unlikely? If we'd seen it before we would have had our anxiety adventure then rather than now)

Our brews all dropped to "Normal" quality overnight.
This has to be a bug, because we were gone roughly the same amount of time as usual sleeping last night, if not less time, and they were Perfect condition when we went to bed (for us, midnight, for the site 7am) and were tended just over ten minutes before that.

Not only that, but someone tended three of our five brews less than three hours before now (6:50am for us, 1:50pm site time), (three brews tended at 10:57am sylestia time, 3:57am for us), when they've gone the entire night an not lost Quality before now.




(I'm just pinging because our MK vene brew is at 98% as of typing this, and we've put in so much effort to keep our qualities up, tending our brews every 35 minutes, and again, this hasn't happened before)

-edir-
(although the bonusses are... still there? I'm sure the Quality drop hasn't happened before as far as my brain is remembering (and... surely , but we didn't notice the Bonusses were intact because we're tired and the quality drop triggered them good old Anxieites into not noticing, so manybe this whole thing isn't an issue)

(But... I'm sure they shouldn't have all dropped to Normal? How many hours before Brew quality starts dropping? I'm... I'm pretty sure they haven't dropped like this before, considering we don't remember seeing it happen overnight the whole fest until now? I am just. Very Confused)

So there's 4 different quality stages: Normal, Good, Great, and Perfect. Normal is value "3", Perfect is value "0". So, higher is bad.

Everytime that you use an Agent, it reduces this count by 1. Every 30 minutes from the previous Agent use, a new condition is added. This means that you can get a Brew from Normal to Perfect in 90 minutes if starting with no condition and using an Agent as soon as your Brew gets a new condition.

Every hour on the hour, the growth and condition check is ran. When that runs, if the Brew has had a condition for more than 35 minutes, the quality is increased by 1 (bad). Since it takes 30 minutes for a condition to first appear and the check is for an additional 35 minutes, this guarantees that you always get a 2 growth ticks to cure a condition before the quality is lowered.

As an example of how fast the quality could go from Perfect to Normal:

12:54 - Used Brew Agent. Quality set to Perfect.
01:00 - Growth Tick.
01:24 - New Condition Added.
02:00 - Growth Tick. Been 35 min w/ active Condition. Quality lowered to Great.
03:00 - Growth Tick. Quality lowered to Good.
04:00 - Growth Tick. Quality lowered to Normal.

So the fastest a Brew can drop from Perfect to Normal is 3 hours and 6 minutes from the last Agent use.