Residents of the Upper River have reported seeing a dirigible in flames – and a slew of crates falling from its hold. The Gazette implores readers not to open any crates they might encounter, carrying a letter from a man at Ealing Gardens who claims that one ‘blew up his whole d__n house!’
To the Upper River’s criminal element, this spells opportunity. Hell, meanwhile, has its own designs on the phenomenon.
The Great Crate Commotion is back in Fallen London! Players with access to the Upper River can help ensure that these missing crates get into the right – or the wrong – hands. At the end of the event, a new Opportunity Card will be added to the Upper River deck, offering the chance to gain Favours with the faction that has amassed the most crates. The event will run for one full week, ending next Wednesday.
On the one hand, I already have more Hell favours than I know what to do with.
But on the other hand, that’s because I support Hell so much already. So I think I’m gonna keep with it. Plus, I deeply empathize with their stated motivations: just wanna open things. What if you find something you want.
Quickly checking, but what’s the EPA on this? Just to know if I should keep getting boxes, and what I should do with them (open them, sell them to either faction). Keeping in mind I really don’t care about making one side or the other win.
My alt does not yet have the Railway, so the GCC is irrelevant for him.
More pertinent matters for my alt: getting a ship, joining a club, raising money to buy a Semiotic Monocle and getting a 4-card lodging (hint: Christmas is coming).
Unless you are super lucky with your Upper River deck card reveals, to really progress with the GCC requires a large investment in scrips… which works against saving up for a Hellworm. Take note, newer players.
“Unless you are super lucky”? Not at all - the card draws are more frequent than the standard cards in the Upper River deck. Roughly every other card I’ve been drawing has been a crate card. There’s generally no need to buy the crates with scrip, unless you have more than enough of that lying around and want to convert scrip into the rewards you get for turning in crates to Criminals or Hell.
Yeah, but in this case, the RNG works in your favor. If you, say, needed one of the non-crate cards in the Upper River, then yes the RNG will probably drive you nuts. But as it is, the crate cards are super common. Anecdotally, I think I turned in about 20 crates I found on cards today.
An additional point: a single crate delivery is sufficient to unlock the new Favour opportunity card after the event, and the card is the same for everyone who delivered anything during the event.
The main reason to spend a lot of Scrip on crates is to increase the Crate Conveyor vanity quality to 777, which has no mechanical benefit.
This vanity grind costs up to 5439 Scrip in total, but the real issue is that there aren’t enough actions in a week to collect and deliver 777 crates, so you’ll need to do it over multiple crate commotions or pay for a lot of action refreshes.
So… what does the world quality mean? Are Criminals or Hell the ones trying to increase it?
It’s a bit funny, the description just says “You have delivered a crate to the Criminals” (when I do that) but I don’t know whether that increased or decreased the quality, so I don’t know who’s winning.
