Parabolan War

Fallen London
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Information on the Wiki puts the cap at 19. There are twelve listed options, plus the Panther, the five cats from Chimes Lost & Found, and Horatio. I’m not aware of any additional options, although if there are any exceedingly-obscure cat companions out there, it’s very possible.

This also means to the best available knowledge, meeting the Lion has a minimum requirement of 2 Chimes companions, making it Fate-locked.[/quote]

I’m just missing the urchin connected pet and the panther then. I can get close enough to the max then.

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I’m only at 13 for Cats. Is there anyway to get Wakeful Eye pets, or do I have to wait?

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Delicious friends! I have a gift for you. The best type of gift, namely that one is maybe a little bit slightly cursed.

I have made a calculator on the Wiki that figures out the best way to play a Parabolan Warfare campaign, based on your characters stats.

Naturally, not everyone here is the type of player who will be excited at the prospect of a literal spreadsheet that can play the game for you. If you have even the slightest hesitation that such a cynical creation is a fun-sucking vampire, then do not partake. This will not bring you joy. It may, however, bring you a Parabolan Parable in sixty actions or less on average. And the Rat-Market is buying those things for the next three weekends. Your choice.

https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/User:PSGarak/Sandbox/Warplan

The link above includes documentation and instructions, and math.

This is [color=#ff3333]BETA[/color], and hobbyist-quality at that. So if you got lost up the Writhing River surrounded by Fingerkings with only a blunt stick and a hollow chess-piece to keep you company, that may or may not mean it’s working correctly, no way to tell. (If the Wiki burns down from the increased load, that is not working correctly, and please stop refreshing.)

Feedback here or on the Wiki is greatly appreciated. After a round of people taking a look, I’ll official release this by moving it out of my user space into the Parabolan Warfare guide.

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[quote=PSGarak]Delicious friends! I have a gift for you. The best type of gift, namely that one is maybe a little bit slightly cursed.

I have made a calculator on the Wiki that figures out the best way to play a Parabolan Warfare campaign, based on your characters stats.

Naturally, not everyone here is the type of player who will be excited at the prospect of a literal spreadsheet that can play the game for you. If you have even the slightest hesitation that such a cynical creation is a fun-sucking vampire, then do not partake. This will not bring you joy. It may, however, bring you a Parabolan Parable in sixty actions or less on average. And the Rat-Market is buying those things for the next three weekends. Your choice.

https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/User:PSGarak/Sandbox/Warplan

The link above includes documentation and instructions, and math.

This is [color=#ff3333]BETA[/color], and hobbyist-quality at that. So if you got lost up the Writhing River surrounded by Fingerkings with only a blunt stick and a hollow chess-piece to keep you company, that may or may not mean it’s working correctly, no way to tell. (If the Wiki burns down from the increased load, that is not working correctly, and please stop refreshing.)

Feedback here or on the Wiki is greatly appreciated. After a round of people taking a look, I’ll official release this by moving it out of my user space into the Parabolan Warfare guide.[/quote]

As someone who’s been guesstimating the way forward based on eyeballing and second chances delivered by another fella aiding me on my Hellworm saddle quest, thanks friend. The best I can say I’ve managed to achieve is reliably come out of ParaWar with lower Ravages than if I’d just gotten the Board to CHOO CHOO away my problems-and, I wanna say maybe a third or a quarter of the time without any Ravages at all. Not sure how much of an achievement that is in context, though.

Edit: One small addendum, I’m not the most mathematical person but does it take into account the actions required to recoup some of the items it suggests for following specific choices that aren’t just &quotthe one that gains Morale&quot, &quotthe one that costs Morale&quot or &quotthe one that neither gains nor costs Morale but is a pretty hefty check even with endgame stats&quot?
edited by Captain Blood Storm on 3/24/2022
edited by Captain Blood Storm on 3/24/2022

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That’s correct. The long tail of inputs are “action-equivalents” for various resources, and those action costs are incorporated into the calculations.

E.g. if you go with the default that a Memory of a Much Lesser Self costs 1 action, then the action “Delegate to yourself” is considered to cost 2 actions on success: 1 to play, and 1 for the Memory.

You can fiddle with those numbers if your character can obtain certain resources faster. For myself, I usually say terror-bird wings costs 1.5 actions instead of 1, while the rat-market has made a few other items cheaper.

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Neat. I tried it out and the general thrust of it seemed to be that I should just keep doing more or less exactly what I’ve been doing. Which is good, I guess!

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The calculator has experienced several new features and one rather substantial bugfix, and I’m now considering it “ready.” It now lives as part of the Parabolan Warfare guide in the Wiki, available at Parabolan War (Guide)/Warplan - Fallen London Wiki.

The updates would not have been possible without detailed feedback from… someone. Unfortunately the forums migration lost DM history and this was a few months back so I’m not 100% sure who it was that was kind of enough to check anything, maybe @mp ?

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Mine was the DM with the 5 feedback points, including the one about the bug in the formula for Airs options - I’m glad to hear that it helped!

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