ive played for 3 months now and would consider this almost posi time midgame. and as i find myself discarding a bunch of stuff lately i was wondering what you guys’ policy on random cards is. i mean we all trash the photographer after we get one or both suits, and the lost love city vice cards seem to show up more than regularly than anything els, but what about the rest?
do you play the stat/level specific 60ish% chance cards? with around a buck worth of items at a good chance to catch menaces i find myself trashing them once i tried all the options. the only real advantage is that winning these gives you a lot of different stuff.
do you play the connection tradeoff cards? some are really useful like church vs the game (second chances) or urchins vs the widow (- nightmares). but theres no point in picking society ever since there are +33 cp cards at the palace. also the five action options give less than 5 echoes. earlier i usually went to the carnival to keep all connections above 5 to draw these. but that costs a lot of actions and i dont see any payoff anymore.
do you play the lodgings cards? the more expensive ones give useful options but the early ones only give scrap. right now i play them because ill probably need the scrap at one point.
do you have any other tactics? for a while i tried to do all my draws at ladybones to find the location-specific card that gives you the salt weasel but i kind of gave up. i also keep the useless city vices cards because if you already hold them you cant draw them again.
lets get some opinions out there and discuss. id like to steal some good ideas from all of you. cheers
edited by sathanas on 11/16/2014