Joy Phillip
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7/4/2013
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What's the population of FL?
I ask because I started doing some figuring. I'm grinding souls for the soul trade to get money for my Overgoat. So far, I've personally handled a quarter million (yes, 250,000) souls in bottles. I will need 400,000 to get enough money to Overgoat. Given that, and counting a percentage of them as being recycled (ie, I trade them to Hell, Hell trades them to the Bazaar, the Bazaar lets others buy them, it gets used for various things, spriffers purchase them instead of removing them, I get them and trade them to Hell), and understanding that according to Hell itself, that only about 1% of the population has lost their soul, by the time I get Overgoated, the population of Fallen London will be 40 Million people.
That seems like a heck of a lot of humans in FL (I'm not counting the Rubberys, the Devils, the Tomb Colonists or those on the other side of the zee). For Victorian London, that seems like a lot of people.
So I'm curious.
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Saharan
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7/5/2013
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You silly girl, what makes you think London is the only place on Earth the Devils have their eyes on? It may be the closest, but it's certainly not the sole place they get their wares. Not to mention the other Fallen Cities that came and went before ours truly.
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Spacemarine9
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7/5/2013
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I think the actual figure is like 8 or 9 percent as well.
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Zee!
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7/5/2013
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An otherwise tedious anarchist pamphlet gained some notoriety when it claimed that eleven per cent of the citizens of Fallen London had traded, lost or otherwise mislaid their souls. An exaggeration, certainly. But the Bazaar does not permit the publication of the real number. Look around you when you next take a seat on a crowded omnibus. The girl sitting next to you could quite easily be one of the soulless.
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Flyte
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7/5/2013
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It is a source of some sadness to me that an ordinary human soul is valued at one fifth the price of a pair of Scuffed Boots, or alternatively, two dead rodents.
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Endy
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7/5/2013
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They could technically have an infinite supply via the Iron Republic.
Besides that there are a number of other regions we haven't seen yet, Orient, and the Colony.
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Nigel Overstreet
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7/5/2013
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The human population of London was a bit more than 4 million.
However, not only does Hell not only collect souls from all over the world, but some of the souls bandying about the city have been harvested over millennia. The folks over at the Embassy surely brought scores of the things to supply their people in London and it's not uncommon for some of those souls to be, shall we say, misplaced.
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Joy Phillip
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7/5/2013
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Nigel Overstreet wrote:
The human population of London was a bit more than 4 million.
However, not only does Hell not only collect souls from all over the world, but some of the souls bandying about the city have been harvested over millennia. The folks over at the Embassy surely brought scores of the things to supply their people in London and it's not uncommon for some of those souls to be, shall we say, misplaced.
So if that's true, that means that approximately 10% of London is soulless, discounting the not-significant amount of souls in bottles brought from various others locations before London fell.
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Sara Hysaro
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7/5/2013
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I'm just glad we don't have to worry about the overall soul population in our gameplay. It'd be rather annoying to watch the spirifers disappear for a while because we conned them all.
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Flipz
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7/5/2013
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Sara Hysaro wrote:
I'm just glad we don't have to worry about the overall soul population in our gameplay. It'd be rather annoying to watch the spirifers disappear for a while because we conned them all.
I wonder if that sort of thing might happen in the top-down trading game that was proposed on the recent survey? There was a game I played years back called "Port Royale" that featured a semi-similar mechanic (though I've long forgotten the specifics): if you flooded the market in a port with a particular resource, it became less valuable, but it also affected how easily that resource could be acquired from that particular port later on. Likewise with buying up all of a given resource in the opposite direction.
Food for thought.
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Kermitron
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7/5/2013
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Joy Phillip wrote:
Nigel Overstreet wrote:
The human population of London was a bit more than 4 million.
However, not only does Hell not only collect souls from all over the world, but some of the souls bandying about the city have been harvested over millennia. The folks over at the Embassy surely brought scores of the things to supply their people in London and it's not uncommon for some of those souls to be, shall we say, misplaced.
So if that's true, that means that approximately 10% of London is soulless, discounting the not-significant amount of souls in bottles brought from various others locations before London fell.
I believe it's been stated that the soulless make up 11% of the population of Fallen London.
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Diptych
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7/5/2013
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I wonder - considering the ties between Hell and certain anarchist groups, was the dreary pamphlet that bore this allegation critical or exultant?
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