Election 1895 Begins!

[quote=dov]I’m guessing about the formula, but it fits what I saw:

  • Notability=5, required Reputation 1 to raise Influence from 0 to 1[/li][li]Notability=5, required Reputation 2 to raise Influence from 1 to 2[/li][li]Notability=6, required Reputation 4 to raise Influence from 2 to 3[/li][li]Notability=6, required Reputation 5 to raise Influence from 3 to 4[/li][li]Notability=6, required Reputation 6 to raise Influence from 4 to 5[/li][li]Notability=6, required Reputation 7 to raise Influence from 5 to 6[/li][li]Notability=6, required Reputation 8 to raise Influence from 6 to 7[/li][li]Notability=7, required Reputation 10 to raise Influence from 7 to 8

If I draw the right card, I’ll drop my Notability to 0 and see how it affects the requirements with each level of Notability I then regain, without adding new Reputation.[/quote]
Well, it seems I’ve guessed wrong.

I’ve dropped Notability to 0, and increased it back to 5 checking every step the requirements for raising election Influence, and there’s no change.
Regardless of Notability, the requirement to raise influence from 7 to 8 is 10 x Reputation.

So: You need one point of Reputation (i.e. help one person with menaces) to gain one point of Influence.
Except when raising Influence from 2 to 3, or from 7 to 8, in which case you’ll need to gain two points of Reputation.

Weird.

Why should I bother responding to mobs? Is there a new Menace State for those building up? Do they prevent me doing anything?

Mobs add a menace card to your deck which will raise one of Nightmares, Wounds, or Scandal when drawn (autofire). Also, while you are mobbed, you won’t be able to embark on a flash lay to gather election resources.

Oh FFS.

Thanks!

Is anyone else purposefully keeping Suspicion and Scandal at zero overnight? Otherwise we wake up with a dozen invites from strangers and that distinctly British obligation to respond to them all, haha.

On the contrary. I keep my Scandal at 3 at all times (which you can do without spending actions, just equipping items).

There’s no problem accepting multiple help requests from Fixers (even though only one of them will actually reduce your menace).

It only takes an action from you were request, but every such action is another point in support of your candidate.

I thought I was somehow doing people a disservice to leave all those invites hanging, or worse, accept them only to lock the person into a perpetual limbo because the first-comer already reduced me to zero.

Time for a lot more lectures, and hat-swapping, then.

You can’t lock them into anything. It doesn’t matter if your menace is already gone. It’s only a requirement when they send the offer in the first place.

The only &quotlimbo&quot is that if you accepted a Fixer’s offer to help, other people can’t accept offers from that same Fixer until they fulfill their task for you (4-5 actions).


edited by dov on 6/30/2017

Requesting clearance of menace from any DTC Fixer

http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Reinol%20von%20Lorica

Thanks, dov. That clears things up quite a bit.

You know, I’ve decided that the Jovial Contrarian is 100% sincere when he expresses bafflement at why people around him keep having heart attacks.

Off-topic, but has anyone else noticed that playing the game on MS Edge browser has become buggy? I get a cursor anywhere I click, causing Home / End navigation buttons not to work, amongst other things.

EDIT: Turns out my cat pressed F7 earlier and it turned on ‘caret browsing mode.’ So I just pressed it again, heh.
edited by Shalinoth on 6/30/2017

I am loving this election season so far but it makes me feel just a little guilty that as a Campaigner my response to a kind stranger Fixing my menaces is to turn around and rattle a cup at them for donations; I feel an obligation to apologize in my response to their Fix before even sending my solicitation. I know in the big picture we are all working towards the same goal, but it does make me feel awkward.

In the end, though, you did them a favour by having menaces they could clear. It may sound backwards, but as a fixer, it’s how it feels like - at least to me personally.

Meh, as long as I profit I’m cool with it

My campaigner has developed a Blackwings Absinthe habit while campaigning for temperance, on account of the need to provide scandal for multiple fixers to, well, fix.

[quote=Anne Auclair]My campaigner has developed a Blackwings Absinthe habit while campaigning for temperance[/quote]See? That’s what temperance does to you! :P

So far I have been enjoying this election more than last year.
The new social interactions have added some needed variety.

It feels kinda awesome ^_^ Yay temperance!