Starting from a few hours from now, If you have any remains from hunting Pine Sharks, you can dissect them at the lab.
You may also choose to extend your research to create a fish book, for an unknown purpose. It is designed similarly to the book on amphibians and reptiles, so you may want to look at this chart before going in the lab. I recommend that you get bunch of goldfish before continuing.
Speaking of which, how does one do amphibian research.
[quote=The Curious Watcher]so you may want to look at this chart before going in the lab.[/quote] Neat, that’s my chart from earlier today. Glad it might help people, although I think most of it is on the wiki now. The Live Specimen gives 25 Piscine Research, and you lose it as well, in case anyone was wondering.
Pine-wood Shark. Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Plagued by a Popular Song is rising…
I’m really enjoying all the creature-specific research in the lab lately! I think research in general is my favorite area of new content. I’m sure it’s a massive amount of work to write content specific to each lab member/experiment combination, but it really makes every project feel special and makes me want to check to see what each of my lab assistants have to say about my experiment rather than just optimizing for maximum research gain. (Also, Cora has the best reactions to everything.)
I like this. I’ll need to get some live specimens and goldfish. I wonder what completed creatures will look like…and since fins don’t give bonuses, if they will help skeletons.
Or maybe they’ll be good grist-type skeletons for the primary currency.
Has anyone found any half-justifiable reason for using fins and declaring your skeleton a fish? Since limbs are usually the easiest-obtained Skeleton part AND can carry the most value for both primary and secondary payments, attaching fins seems mostly like wasting torsos and skulls to me.
Though authoring a book about fish is its own reward, obviously :)
How does one get live specimens anyway? It seems that goldfish only give you 2 piscine research, it would be a waste of 100 actions to complete like this…
I don’t know if you will like the answer: there is a heist that offers 2 specimen (Envoy’s Townhouse -> Deliver the documents to the Glass).
The calculation is up to you. ;)
I don’t know if you will like the answer: there is a heist that offers 2 specimen (Envoy’s Townhouse -> Deliver the documents to the Glass).
The calculation is up to you. ;)[/quote]
Not sure it’s worth the trouble then… bring up casing, go through the heist… So the only ones who can really profit on quicker research right now are the ones who invested on De Gustibus? Bit unfair but… whatever. I guess I should learn to pay more attention to festivals. Or not!
I don’t know if you will like the answer: there is a heist that offers 2 specimen (Envoy’s Townhouse -> Deliver the documents to the Glass).
The calculation is up to you. ;)[/quote]
Not sure it’s worth the trouble then… bring up casing, go through the heist… So the only ones who can really profit on quicker research right now are the ones who invested on De Gustibus? Bit unfair but… whatever. I guess I should learn to pay more attention to festivals. Or not![/quote]
Heist + trade in should be 13 actions (assuming Gang and drawing the exit card right after you get 5 progress).
From the Information I’ve got here, the options are 8 specimen or 100 goldfishes.
100 goldfishes would be 100 actions + 16 actions for the echoes (assuming 2.5 EpA), means 116 in total.
8 Specimen would be 52 actions for the heist + 8 actions for trade in, so 60 actions in total. Or more likely 65-70 with some extra actions wasted in the heists.
So it should be worth it, even without taking the 4x Puzzling Map and 4x Silent Soul you will get as secondary rewards out of the heist into account.
Of couse, for heists a 5 card lodgings helps alot, but even without you should be faster.
I don’t know if you will like the answer: there is a heist that offers 2 specimen (Envoy’s Townhouse -> Deliver the documents to the Glass).
The calculation is up to you. ;)[/quote]
Not sure it’s worth the trouble then… bring up casing, go through the heist… So the only ones who can really profit on quicker research right now are the ones who invested on De Gustibus? Bit unfair but… whatever. I guess I should learn to pay more attention to festivals. Or not![/quote]
Heist + trade in should be 13 actions (assuming Gang and drawing the exit card right after you get 5 progress).
From the Information I’ve got here, the options are 8 specimen or 100 goldfishes.
100 goldfishes would be 100 actions + 16 actions for the echoes (assuming 2.5 EpA), means 116 in total.
8 Specimen would be 52 actions for the heist + 8 actions for trade in, so 60 actions in total. Or more likely 65-70 with some extra actions wasted in the heists.
So it should be worth it, even without taking the 4x Puzzling Map and 4x Silent Soul you will get as secondary rewards out of the heist into account.
Of couse, for heists a 5 card lodgings helps alot, but even without you should be faster.[/quote]
Faster, maybe. But I’m one of those people who dislike repeatable carousels like heists and would rather mundanely grind in the lab to get it over with… I mean heists can be fun, the first one hundred (thousand) times you do them but…
That lab rework to abolish the card system can’t come soon enough.
Oh, there’s actually a rework in the plans? That’s good to hear. It seems rather pointless to have to click 50 times to get one person to come up. They can’t all be that good in lab hide-and-seek, after all.
I don’t think we know it will abolish the card system.
All we know is that it aims to reducing clicking and cycling until the optimal card comes up.
As sheer speculation, one way of doing that is to make all cards non discardable. I am not saying that’s what would happen. Only that we can’t really conclude that the deck is going away
Removing cards worked wonders for the Bone Market and I don’t see any reason not to do it here, really.
[quote=genesis]As sheer speculation, one way of doing that is to make all cards non discardable.[/quote]That would be a trash solution since it could force you to pile up research you don’t need on projects that need more than one type.
I agree, non discardable cards would be the worst thing to do, so it’s probably not that.
Deep Zee Catches are the best non-crustacean way to ‘grind’ out piscine research it looks like. In total 20 actions to get the fish, then 20 actions to dissect them.
Finished my fish book earlier this morning. I just wish you could do anything with these compendiums than fake skeletons for ignorant Londoners more effectively. It’s like I put all that research into frogs, or lizards, or giggling mini-Bazaars and…for what? To raise my credibility in the eyes of THAT CHEAP BASTARD IN THE TOP HAT WHO IS LITERALLY THE ONLY LEGAL SOURCE OF BESSEMER STEEL INGOTS? I really hope there’s something crazy you can use the information for later on in Red Science experiments to, I don’t know, turn yourself into a Curator for those of us not fortunate enough to have done Heart’s Desire.
edited by Hattington on 8/27/2020
Yeah, great idea, steal my last untouched reward from HD Power.
On serious note it would be nice to see more uses for these booke and lab specialists.
edited by Waterpls on 8/28/2020