"Why click once when you can click three times’ does seem to have become FB’s maxim in recent years. So many times they include extra little ‘click to get to the next click’ storylets in between activities these days. No idea why, and it makes me grumpy, but I think I am getting used to it.
And yes, after claiming a bunch of wrecked shipments and seeing I still have around 4000 Favour to spend, I am losing the will to live. :)
If this were your first Fruits of the Zee Festival, it would have costed 1800 favour to get all of the various items that were available in previous years. Things like the Forsaken Crown of a Grand Devil, and Sun-Seared Silken Gloves.
If you’ve been to Fruits before, then you’ve already gotten some (or all!) of those. Many players, including both you and me, only have to replace the Cat that we acquired last year but then upgraded during Hallowmas.
The “economic” option uses “Opening a Bundle”-style mechanics. It seems the results mostly duplicate results you could have gotten from fishing in previous years. An uncanny uncunabulum, a pile of letters, some wine, a Clay Man who is willing to do some Strong-Backed Labour for you.
Yeah, except Zee Festival 2014 items. I am not complaining, but basically I have 2-3k favours to spend on my alts too.
It was clearly marked well in advance, so I’m not surprised that the various trade in items are vanishing at the end of the festival but it is a little disappointing. The color text on the trade in for witchstones implies they’d be pretty handy to keep around!
Has anyone done the math yet, how much the repeatable trade in for Thalassic Favour is worth?
I have a bunch of Coral Skulls in my inventory and am trying to figure out if I should turn them into favour and trade them in or find another use for them.
I would hold on to the Coral Skulls unless absolutely necessary, since they are useful and can only be obtained at a Railway location.
I agree. I accumulated a lot of them during the last week not only because it was more efficient, but because an eventual surplus of them will be useful after the end of the festival.
Here’s a poll: Which New Ship did you get? - Online Poll - StrawPoll
I’m thinking of changing my yacht with a zub. The yacht has the lousiest upgrade: 5 persuasive! The luxurious quality has an equivalent for the zub on the card.
While the cruiser with the TW reduction looks nice, zub has already few options that not only avoid TW, but reduce it. We already have a TW reducing item so the cruiser’s TW stat may just be useless compared to the zub.
I think I’ll just decide tomorrow. 
That’s been my thought as well: I can get TW-prevention from one other item (and possibly more in the future), but I can only get Zubmersibility from a Zubmarine.
Tough call here. I don’t really want a Khaganian ship, but stat-wise I’m rather drawn to the Ogedei class.
It really depends on your priorities. If you want to just do piracy and not worry as much about TW, the cruiser might be a better choice. The Zub is probably better overall for reducing TW, but you have to actively choose its options and miss out on the Plunder which turns into Fabulous Diamonds. I chose the Zub myself, but I was already a Zub owner and chose mostly on the basis of flavor anyway.
I’m going with the TW Liner because I plan on doing some piracy and if I wear full zeefaring outfit to get 80% on snares cards and 100% everywhere else, then I can’t switch my headpiece for the TW reducing one. Also Zubs are not my character’s thing roleplay wise. Right now he’s in his violence era, not his Jacques Cousteau era.
Wait, I just realized how marginal the effect of zailing speed actually is. Bloody hell, the Ogedei liner is practically useless, isn’t it?
Well, it’s very helpful if you are Zailing against the current! You can save a maximum of 3 whole actions if you are leaving the Khanate to London!/s
Wait, how does the Zub negatively affect plunder? (Asking because I have the yacht currently, and am eyeing the new zub…)
As someone who’s had the zee clipper and has taken the upgrade to the Ogedai class liner, yes, the zailing speed bonus is rubbish. I dithered over switching to another ship but roleplaying wise my character would take the fastest ship even if mechanically it isn’t actually any faster. 
As written on the wiki, it also has better success rate on zailing speed checks, but you only go from 50% to 80% or something, so not crazy either.
I’d still say the zub is the most optimised one, but honestly, with all the zailing bonuses and the extra profitability from corsairs activity, it’s kind of marginal. So you can also take your style preferences into account
I can’t say that for myself since I liked the zub also, so my interests are aligned.
Maybe if there were a ship with actual zails… Is there any wind at zee (or in the Neath for that matter) ? I mean the normal variety, not the killing or wax kind 
But why would I run that route counterclockwise? As a rule I almost always either follow the current or occasionally take the Snares. That’s what I meant by marginal. It’s an exception that occurs few and far between.
It doesn’t negatively affect plunder, necessarily, it’s just that the special options where you use Zubmersibility don’t give any plunder so its more of an opportunity cost thing
Probably should have put a /s, my bad.
Ah, right. I mean, it’s not like I’ve never zailed against the current, but… yeah, pretty niche. Same goes for zailing speed checks really, practically never do any of those.