reposting from the Discord since FBG hasn’t done so:
[quote=]8 October
• Meta text on July’s tooltip now states that she can serve on the board of the GHR.
• Help from the Board Secretary now allows gaining a second weekly GHR meeting until the player has built a station at Balmoral.
• Fixed some text when building track towards Balmoral that mistakenly described building towards the Evenlode.
• The end of a lab experiment no longer deletes your accumulated expertise of the First, Second, or Fourth Cities. Expertise of the Third City works as before.[/quote]
• It is now possible to sell a cover identity you’re not keen on in your Cabinet Noir and start a new one, if it has at least 5 points of Elaboration.
• Relying on Sinning Jenny at a board meeting now reduces Credit with the Headmistress, so that those who had a great deal of Credit will not always receive her acquiescence to everything.
• On rare visits to Helicon House, it is now possible to meet and converse with the Salesperson in Viric.
• Obtaining skeleton parts at the woods in Balmoral is now less efficient.
• We have restructured the Fate page to make it easier to use. There are now categories for gameplay, stories and story resets. We’ve added search functionality and further details about the stories such as featured people and places.
• Trailers for selected premium stories can be seen in some areas.
• You can now remove the Hell-Scarred Gondolier from the Board, which will restore his card to the Upper River.
• If you have no Criminal Record when arrested in the Upper River, you are given the same punishment you would in the same situation in London.
• Using Special Dispensations to avoid jail in the Upper River is slightly more beneficial: you can avoid increasing your Criminal Record, but it will get expensive to keep doing so.[/quote]
[color=#ff00cc]23 October 6.4.3[/color]
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[color=#ff00cc] Increased Moonlight requirement for Luminous Painting in Balmoral for better economic balance.[/color][/li][li][color=#ff00cc]Added a new opportunity card to the Upper River deck, which adds more uses for Sworn Statements and Cover Identities.[/color][/li][li][color=#ff00cc]Fixed a bug with renaming Newspapers and other qualities that was rejecting acceptable names rather than accepting them.[/color][/li][li][color=#ff00cc]Using Special Dispensations to avoid going to jail while in the Upper River will no longer clear your deck.[/color][/li][li][color=#ff00cc]A certain councillor’s vote is now correctly cleared after a successful vote in the GHR board.[/color][/li][li][color=#ff00cc]Renamed the quality for a note you pick up at a certain laboratory to start with ‘Collection Note’ to make it easier to search for on the Myself tab.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]30 October 6.4.4[/color]
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[color=#ff00cc]- The Hallowmas cards tied to each mask – The Crown’s Splendour, The Devil’s Gambit and The Flight of Moths – are now roughly twice as likely to appear.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- The Buccaneering Palaeontologist should now unlock the option on the card ‘A Public Lecture’, like their un-upgraded counterpart.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- Trading in Criminal favours at the Flit is now more rewarding.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- The options to obtain a Human Ribcage or several Human Arms by calling in favours now have meta text warning that this is not useful if you don’t have a use for them in mind.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- Spending a Church favour on the Alluring Accomplice’s companion card is now more efficient.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- The options on the card An Implausible Penance have been made substantially more powerful.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- Slightly increased the value of the Dean’s statue at Jericho Locks.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- Increased the value of the Widow and Clay Highwayman statues at the Magistracy of the Evenlode.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- A new story has been added to the University, which adds more uses for very elaborate cover identities and Halcyonic Tonic.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- Several new options have been added to Helicon House, including a new branch in the basement and a new area to explore.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- Attempts to buy a Final Breath from an old man at the bone market now return to the originating storylet so that it’s possible to buy from him repeatedly.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- Qualities in the sidebar are now correctly organised by category.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- It is no longer possible to select an Exceptional outfit (thereby causing the game to hang indefinitely) when your Exceptional Friendship has lapsed.[/color] edited by SaraFBG on 10/30/2020
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[color=#ff00cc]- Attempts to buy a Final Breath from an old man at the bone market now return to the originating storylet so that it’s possible to buy from him repeatedly.[/color] edited by SaraFBG on 10/30/2020[/quote]
I know this is a small one, but having done it the original way a few days ago and then the new way after the update, I appreciate it to no end!
[color=#ff00cc]6 November[/color]
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[color=#ff00cc]- Brightening the Station VIII lighthouse now correctly lowers Advancing the Liberation of Night.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- Greatly increased the rewards from the statue of Sinning Jenny at Ealing Gardens, and slightly increased the rewards from the statues of Virginia, Feducci, and the Jovial Contrarian.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- Various options on the card ‘A Gift from the Capering Relicker’ have been slightly increased.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- Various lines of text about the Rubbery Yes-Man have been changed.[/color]
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[color=#ff00cc]In last week’s patch notes, we mentioned that we had increased the value of the statue of The Last Constable at the Magistracy of the Evenlode. As players are aware, there is no statue of The Last Constable. This was content we considered and began building, but decided against making live for myriad reasons. In preparation for the balance changes later this month, we’ve begun buffing elements of the game, and due to a miscommunication, this was included, and then reported as a change. We apologise for any confusion caused.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]13 November[/color]
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[color=#ff00cc]- Modelling in Helicon House now requires a max of 2 Time Remaining.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- A Bag a Legend!-related option in Helicon House has similarly been decreased, though not as much as accepting a commission.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- Several branches that generate Inspired in Helicon House now generate more Inspired.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- Accepting a commission in Helicon House now costs more Inspired, but will no longer reset Inspired if you have more than the required amount.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- Changed how requirements are displayed on the card ‘A Public Lecture’[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- Several London opportunity cards have been adjusted to grant greater rewards or rewards that scale with an attribute: ‘Mr Wines is Holding a Sale’; ‘A Day at the Races’; ‘All Fear the Overgoat!’; ‘A Sporting Sort’.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- Several London opportunity cards should no longer appear for high-level players: ‘Investigating Doctor Schlomo’; ‘Reeducating Lyme’; ‘Revisit the Theosophisticals’; ‘The Phantom of the Antimacassar.’[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- The card ‘Swap Incendiary Gossip’ has been retired.[/color]
[color=#ff00cc]- Various Upper River cards that increase Banditry now have that increase correctly capped.[/color]
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[color=#ff00cc]- A Bag a Legend!-related option in Helicon House has similarly been decreased, though not as much as accepting a commission.[/color][/quote]
There’s a Bag a Legend! option?
Thinner deck is nice. Thank you. Can I get a little greedy and request a way to stop seeing the Affluent Photographer? EDIT: Like maybe a "locked with: one of the mid tiered garments you get from that grind" edited by Constance Harrow on 11/13/2020
Just wondering if FBG decreased the rate at which the railway breadcrumb card appears [ADVERTISEMENTS OF A NEW VENTURE]. I have been trying to get it for over a week without success.
Currently, it is possible to do one cycle of that in 18 actions, spending 275 drops of honey at the Empress’ Court and with a Rubbery Euphonium or some other companion to speed things along in the Helicon House while going back and forth London and Ealing Gardens. The cost of the honey can be partially compensated for with the Rumours gained from going back and forth and the Scrips from completing the cycle. Even then, it’s still an approximate 3.40 Echoes per action.
If your intention is to farm the Nodules of Pulsating Ambers (especially for Station VIII-related content), this is great - saves you a lot of Echoes (and the actions otherwise spent to grind the Echoes to purchase the Nodules).
P.S. It’s possible to make this even more efficient if you intersect this carousel with some other opportunities or carousels, like spending Favours: Revolutionaries at the Empress’ Court after getting those Favours via giving Special Dispensations to to the revolutionaries. edited by Rostygold on 11/18/2020