What was Moonlit before?
It was a Menace. Right on the sidebar so you could see it all the time, too.
FINALLY! When I have the chance I’m buying 100 Fate just in thanks for this these have been bothering me for so long.
Well, makes sense for it not to be a menace, but was seeing it an issue? I certainly didn’t mind it being there.
In fact, I liked seeing all of the listed items on the sidebar regardless of where I was, Moonlit in particular.
So, I guess you could say that I barely care about these changes, but to the extent that I do, I dislike them.
I’d have preferred the next chapter of Firmament instead. By what metric is this not late June?
The date ranges they give are projections, not promises. And next week will still be late June, so if Firmament releases next Thursday it will still be on time.
Quite a lot of players have voiced dislike at how cluttered the sidebar has become. I haven’t been vocal but I agree: so many menaces and skills, it takes a lot of scrolling that it’s lost some of its utility as a quickview. Moonlit in particular was very niche, and also very hard to parse as a Menace so its inclusion was confusing. I suspect more people than not will consider this a QoL improvement.
The ideal state is probably a user-configurable sidebar with sensible defaults, but I’m guessing the level of effort for something like that is simply unreasonable.
Yeah, now that you mention it, that sidebar does have so much stuff it’s basically unusable to find anything in particular. It doesn’t feel like a quickview, it feels like a complete list (though of course compared to all the qualities out there, it’s a quickview).
Does the extra random amount of zailing apply to corsair checks? Pretty sure I haven’t noticed it happening yet and I’ve been zailing a round a bit, but it’s mostly doing piracy while sailing around
Week ending 9th August
Area-locked cards in the London deck weren’t having the desired effect. They were not dense enough to really affect the flavour of the area, and were awkward to convey to new players in particular, leading some cards to be extremely narrow in their availability. We’re continuing to keep an eye on the shape of the London deck.
Do I read this right and London’s deck became much worse with all those trash cards added into general pool?
Not sure I like this change. At first I was totally confused why I was suddenly drawing " A deviless’ serenade" everywhere in London. Then I noticed they’d changed the requirement to “Route: The Flit”.
The only upside (maybe?) is you don’t have to pay attention to where in London you draw cards as the deck should be the same in every location now. But I don’t think that makes up for the deterioration of the deck in general. There was a reason I was avoiding these cards…
Is there a list of which cards were retired?
I noticed “Bones in the River”, and “The Departed” so far (noticed they’re no longer location locked, that is)
The Wiki claimed Wolfstack in the Fog had gone, but I’ve drawn that twice recently, so not sure it’s true. Good riddance to Bones in the River, though. I have no great love for that pile of smelly remains. Which is comical, because IRL, the whole family are enthusiastic fossil hunters.
Seeing as I just got Bones in the River, I think it’s just waiting for you with a nailed bat.
I was thinking of Wolfstack in Fog, but I see that’s not confirmed. And my take will be the lodgings cards that give urchin favours (there were 3-4) and probably some other rare and beneficial cards. I wonder if the Albino rat card is still out there.