Hello there.
I am new to the forum and to start off I was wondering about everyone’s favourite way of playing the game? Which of the 4 stats do you build up first? Do you go for a general build were you try to level all the stats equally or do you focus solely on the one that gives you the chance of getting the career that you want ?
Personally I enjoy the watchful storylets a lot and my chosen career is usually something in the detective area, again focusing heavily on watchfulness. So what do you all think ?
I love stories of Seduction and Scandal, Love and Art, Passion and Poetry. I truly love playing a character who indulges such things, and love the stories around Veilgarden and the Shuttered Palace, among other places.
My Persuasive was nearly 200 by the time the rest finally all hit 100.
On my first character, back in ancient history when the watchful cap was 80,-my first character started with watchful. On my restart last year, I started with Shadowy.
Around level 100 it’s worth going back and catching up the other qualities, and being fairly even after that, since after PoSI and after the first few areas for each stat, lots of areas use combinations of stats, and not always the same ones.
Well this gives me a lot to think about. I’ve been played back since the Echo Bazaar days but until relatively recently I was on an indefinite hiatus until I logged back in a few weeks ago as my newer character.
Currently my character is at around 100 watchful and I’m exploring the forgotten quarter, I’ve been thinking about backing out to level my other stats which are still pretty weedy currently unfortunately. edited by HopFrog on 10/5/2017
When starting out I went for all stats about equally. They hit 100 not terribly far apart, with Dangerous the first and Shadowy the last one over the line. But Shadowy was also the first of my stats to hit 200 and Dangerous the last; Dangerous really runs low on uses compared to other stats in the very late game.
The biggest use of Dangerous late-game would be the Velocipede Squad, which is one of the Big Late-Game Grinds. (Unless you pick a certain ending to the fate extension.)
I myself was always big on Watchful. Something about the Neath draws in the erudite, I’ve found. Secondly Persuasive, thirdly Shadowy, lastly Dangerous.
Of course to make it to the big important PoSI status, all four stats should hit 100 (modified). It’s just a matter of how much you want to prioritize it.
That is almost exactly my focus, too - with Persuasive and Shadowy being almost tied.
I’d also say that this seems to match the general distribution of content in the game - Watchful seems to be by far the most developed, with things like goats, SotC, university content, and expeditions all requiring very high watchful (and two of those being major late-game grinds). Meanwhile, Shadowy provides Heists as late-game content, and not much else of particular significance; I can’t speak about Persuasive because I refuse to get banished from court; and Dangerous is only really involved in breeding beasts (and occasionally useful in zailing). Of the latter three, none have major late-game grinds focusing on them as far as I can remember (let me know if I’m wrong).