Be encouraged! I drew the card three times yesterday: once for my own ghostly presence, one for Sister Lydia, and one for a certain diplomat. Luck will eventually turn, and also, even a single Encounter at the Feast per day would net you most of your non-Fate companions by the end of the week.
Also, there are a few measures you can take to improve your chances, however so slightly. First, move to a Remote Address until the Feast is over (or at least until you’ve seen Lilac and the Encounter card as much as you need to); this will trim out City Vices cards. Flip cards in the Forgotten Quarter to trim out area-specific cards. If you have any story-based cards that you can resolve (any lingering POSI cards, for example), advance them to the point they’re no longer in your deck. There was a topic somewhere on the subject of deck trimming that might have more advice. None of these will dramatically increase your chance of finding the card, but they’ll all help, and the cumulative effect can be noticeable. (That said, nothing involving an RNG is guaranteed.)
[quote=Siankan]Be encouraged! I drew the card three times yesterday: once for my own ghostly presence, one for Sister Lydia, and one for a certain diplomat. Luck will eventually turn, and also, even a single Encounter at the Feast per day would net you most of your non-Fate companions by the end of the week.
Also, there are a few measures you can take to improve your chances, however so slightly. First, move to a Remote Address until the Feast is over (or at least until you’ve seen Lilac and the Encounter card as much as you need to); this will trim out City Vices cards. Flip cards in the Forgotten Quarter to trim out area-specific cards. If you have any story-based cards that you can resolve (any lingering POSI cards, for example), advance them to the point they’re no longer in your deck. There was a topic somewhere on the subject of deck trimming that might have more advice. None of these will dramatically increase your chance of finding the card, but they’ll all help, and the cumulative effect can be noticeable. (That said, nothing involving an RNG is guaranteed.)[/quote]
I envy your luck, though I manged to get another Encounter today. Anyway, I wanted to thank you: I did most of the deck-trimming, but I had forgot about the Forgotten Quarter (the pun is unwanted).
However, all this will have to wait until I manage to capture the glorious colors of Parabola on my skin (Nightmares 7 is a bit of a bother).
In two days just once I’ve got the lady in liliac. In the wiki it is said to be frequent (twice as fast as standard). Wtf the card rarity. Nothing yesterday and just around day change I’ve got only 1. Also got 2 An Encounter at the Feast twice(1 today right now and 1 yesterday).
I have not seen Lilac so far this Feast, let alone the Encounter card. Ironically, my main already has 20 Masquing from the Opportunity card storylets…and that doesn’t even count her 5 books of Poetry, 9 Gifts of Scorn, 18 Glasses of Teeth… (!)
I flipped Lilac immediately on Monday, and since then haven’t drawn any of the event cards, even going through about 60 cards a day. What misfortune! ;_; Still, I suppose I have the rest of the week. I do hope they get made into storylets, or made ubiquitous as the Feast gets closer to the end, though.[li]
Both my main and my alt got one encounter yesterday and one today. Which is good for my main since he now owns all free companions, but not so good for my alt with only 2 of them.
[quote=Siankan]Be encouraged! I drew the card three times yesterday: once for my own ghostly presence, one for Sister Lydia, and one for a certain diplomat. Luck will eventually turn, and also, even a single Encounter at the Feast per day would net you most of your non-Fate companions by the end of the week.
Also, there are a few measures you can take to improve your chances, however so slightly. First, move to a Remote Address until the Feast is over (or at least until you’ve seen Lilac and the Encounter card as much as you need to); this will trim out City Vices cards. Flip cards in the Forgotten Quarter to trim out area-specific cards. If you have any story-based cards that you can resolve (any lingering POSI cards, for example), advance them to the point they’re no longer in your deck. There was a topic somewhere on the subject of deck trimming that might have more advice. None of these will dramatically increase your chance of finding the card, but they’ll all help, and the cumulative effect can be noticeable. (That said, nothing involving an RNG is guaranteed.)[/quote]
I’ve been sitting on a rare mood card and don’t want to lose it, though - would moving lose me that card?
I don’t think so, unless you’ve got four cards sitting in your hand right now. To my knowledge, the only thing that wipes your cards is leaving London for some other area. Otherwise, people would be changing lodgings every time they got a Merry Gentleman or Eyeless Skull card.
I don’t think so, unless you’ve got four cards sitting in your hand right now. To my knowledge, the only thing that wipes your cards is leaving London for some other area. Otherwise, people would be changing lodgings every time they got a Merry Gentleman or Eyeless Skull card.[/quote]
I moved not too long ago and I think you only lose the cards you are no longer eligible for (like city vice cards when you get a remote address). I managed to keep the Keen-Eyed Lapidary card when I moved to the Third City Temple, so I think moving is alright. edited by Bertrand Lyndon on 2/14/2017
It seems the RNG is inflicting it’s traditional chaotic reign of terror upon all of us this feast. I have seen the Lady in Lilac a couple times but after 2 days of intense card flipping have yet to see An Encounter at the Feast even once.
Having been through this several times now (this and other festivals), it always works out the same. You draw and draw and draw and you’ll get it often enough to get all the companions you want–barely. Then for the rest of the feast, you’ll draw it ever third or fourth card, when it clutters up your deck while you wait for something else.
I believe the Devs sometimes increase the frequency of a card, especially when a lot of people complain about it on this forum.
I doubt anyone is specifically responding to forum chatter; that makes for a random and uncertain way to handle frequency. However, it is entirely probable that the frequency of important cards does indeed increase later in the Feast, so people who desperately need them don’t get stuck. Take Christmas, for example, where we know for certain that the Mr. Sacks cards come more frequently as time goes on. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if they used the same procedure during other seasonal events, as well. Consider it a developer’s way of outflanking the RNG. edited by Siankan on 2/15/2017
I certainly hope the frequency gets increased or it becomes a storylet later on. I can’t keep staying up til midnight just to flip a card every ten minutes!
I doubt anyone is specifically responding to forum chatter; that makes for a random and uncertain way to handle frequency. However, it is entirely probable that the frequency of important cards does indeed increase later in the Feast, so people who desperately need them don’t get stuck. Take Christmas, for example, where we know for certain that the Mr. Sacks cards come more frequently as time goes on. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if they used the same procedure during other seasonal events, as well. Consider it a developer’s way of outflanking the RNG. edited by Siankan on 2/15/2017[/quote]
Or we can just wait until the cards become storylets(since two other people said that they think it was like this last year as well it will probably just be that again).
I doubt anyone is specifically responding to forum chatter; that makes for a random and uncertain way to handle frequency. However, it is entirely probable that the frequency of important cards does indeed increase later in the Feast, so people who desperately need them don’t get stuck. Take Christmas, for example, where we know for certain that the Mr. Sacks cards come more frequently as time goes on. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if they used the same procedure during other seasonal events, as well. Consider it a developer’s way of outflanking the RNG. edited by Siankan on 2/15/2017[/quote]
Or we can just wait until the cards become storylets(since two other people said that they think it was like this last year as well it will probably just be that again).[/quote]
Didn’t the Mr. Sacks storyline become a storylet near the end of the Christmas festivities?
I doubt anyone is specifically responding to forum chatter; that makes for a random and uncertain way to handle frequency. However, it is entirely probable that the frequency of important cards does indeed increase later in the Feast, so people who desperately need them don’t get stuck. Take Christmas, for example, where we know for certain that the Mr. Sacks cards come more frequently as time goes on. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if they used the same procedure during other seasonal events, as well. Consider it a developer’s way of outflanking the RNG. edited by Siankan on 2/15/2017[/quote]
Or we can just wait until the cards become storylets(since two other people said that they think it was like this last year as well it will probably just be that again).[/quote]
Didn’t the Mr. Sacks storyline become a storylet near the end of the Christmas festivities?[/quote]
My main just got the Encounter card this evening. Still hasn’t seen Lilac, but that was okay because she had 20 Masquing from Opportunity Cards. In consequence she has obtained the companionship of an Enigmatic Augur.
My alt has not seen either card, of course, but with her now limited financial means she has not been exchanging a lot of Feast gifts. edited by cathyr19355 on 2/15/2017