Plaques, or Missives, for ASotC?

I’m on that Paramount Presence grind, so I’m going to have a truly stupid amount of Volumes of Collated Research by the time I’m done all the Notability grinds (doing newspaper grind > T3 conversions > memories of distant shores to collated research for making waves). I’d also like to get my SotC to 21 at some point, before I play Cricket, Anyone?

Now, I’m already a Correspondent. Assuming that I could find another Correspondent to 1:1 swap Missives with, would it be cheaper to burn plaques all the way to 21, or swap Missives to get to 21? I’m already at 15, so I’d be getting 1 CP from the missives, but I already have so many Volumes of Collated Research…

I’d really appreciate some help calculating echo/action efficiency for this. I’m not the best at optimizing gameplay, I’m not even sure where to start!

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Let’s see…

If I’m reading the wiki correctly, to go from 15 (+ 0 CP) to 21, you need 1960 plaques total (1286 for Correspondents) and a plaque is a half-echo item, plus 222 of items that go for 2.50 echoes (aeolian screams, extraordinary implications)

For missives instead, assuming you’re trading with someone one-for-one, you’d need to have 444 items that go for 2.50 echoes (implications, collated research) and buy 555 sheets of fire-resilient paper for 60 pence each.

I think this means that the plaque route is a better deal since you’re a Correspondent. Otherwise it would be worse but not by a dramatic percentage. I’d beg you to double-check my results before committing to a course of action, though.

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Thank you so much! Okay, so I guess after this is time for me to calculate if it’s worth the time savings if I have to collated research to go for the implications vs regrinding plaques and other 2.5 items for the Plaque route, and the cost for various amounts of EpA.

Kids today have it so easy. I had to conduct symphony after symphony after symphony to reach 21.

Ah… doesn’t writing a Symphony only give SotC up to level 10?

I recall doing the higher levels at a gallop during one of the festivals to ditch the menaces – Hallowmas maybe?