Salt's Favor Exploit?

Sunless Sea
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1: Kill a lifeberg for the Zee-story.
2: Take the zee-story in to the Whither for Salt’s Favor (or is it Salt’s Attention? either way…)
3: Go to the Salt Lions while &quotSomething Awaits You&quot and do the Salt’s Favor questline thing. Achieve a Searing Enigma. Buy Sphinxstone.
4: Back to london to drop off the Sphinxstone and Searing Enigma for 1,300 echoes (1,500 but -200 for buying the Sphinxstone in the first place.)
5: Rinse, Repeat, buy large ship, explore with ease.

I just started playing this as it went on sale on Steam the other day, I &quotdiscovered&quot this exploit / route / whatever on only my second character. I’m a little annoyed that it was so easy to find a route like this because it kind of turned the game into a field of daisies, when the difficulty is what drew me in at first.

2

Note that earning Salt’s Favour in Whither also requires spending a secret, and earning secrets requires exploration or a considerable number of side stories. However, I do agree that it feels a little too easy if the Salt Lions end up being close to London.

3

That’s true, but it doesn’t seem that hard to generate secrets honestly, and I’m not sure what else to use them on. I don’t want to commit to spending them on officers buffing my attributes since I’m unclear on if some officers will buff them by more than just +1, because if so I want to wait until I have access to them.

4

Grinding secrets is easy in early game, since every second thing you lay eyes upon gives you enough fragments for one, once the known underzee has been explored it becomes a real hassle.

Spending them on officers is a save bet, since it’s pretty much the whole purpouse and each and every one of them gives you &quotonly&quot +1 on the stat each time you give a secret to them up to 100, increasing them additionaly is done by equiptment, items, ships and officers stories.

5

I expect it depends on where the Salt Lions are in relation to Whither and London, for my current game it wouldn’t be an easy grind or one I really feel like exploiting.

Personally I use the god’s attention on the A Vista storylet as Salt gives +2 pages and mirrors and Storm +2 veils and iron. I would rather have the stat increase than the money, as it makes it easier to pass challenges and get a good reward.

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[i]Dear Octopusapult,

My officers, crew, and I, would like to thank you for this great advice you gave us.
Our profits are skyrocketting. A new pacefull life of safe adventures and explorations awaits us.

Best regards from the Zeeside Mansion
May Salt’s Attention be with you

H.Lecter
October, 25th - 04h55 -[/i]

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[quote=H.Lecter][i]Dear Octopusapult,

My officers, crew, and I, would like to thank you for this great advice you gave us.
Our profits are skyrocketting. A new pacefull life of safe adventures and explorations awaits us.

Best regards from the Zeeside Mansion
May Salt’s Attention be with you

H.Lecter
October, 25th - 04h55 -[/i][/quote]

No problem buddy. XD