My TTH just hit too with a loss of 53 NF. Got the pail melt warning as well.
I got the pail melt as well. I can’t say anything about NF; I have none, but I thought the pail melt might be useful info.
My Noman died at Port Carnelian earlier today. I thought it wasn’t going to because TtH went by, dropped NF to 0, and I spent a few actions without it autofiring. Then it did.
Not that I was trying to keep it alive or anything. It was just odd that it didn’t fire immediately.
Yep, my TTH came, Noman was purchased and pail conversion has commenced!
So, did the melt warning come today or yesterday? All the reports are from today but I wonder if it just means that none of the marathon runners have Monday TTH
edited by genesis on 1/24/2017
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that a lot of people who have a Tuesday morning TtH all got pushed back with the last server issue a few weeks back. Mine used to be on Monday morning and is now on Tuesday. There might not be any people who have a Monday TtH anymore because they’re all Tuesday now.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that a lot of people who have a Tuesday morning TtH all got pushed back with the last server issue a few weeks back. Mine used to be on Monday morning and is now on Tuesday. There might not be any people who have a Monday TtH anymore because they’re all Tuesday now.[/quote]
Yes, I do distinctly remember once having a Monday TTH, and I am now solidly into a Tuesday TTH. Everytime Failbetter has server issues, that time creeps forward a bit.
[color=#66cc00]CD\FALLEN LONDON\BAZAARSIDESTREETS\PENSTOCKSWICKET\SUNDEREDSEA[/color]
[color=#66cc00]RUN NOMAN.BAT[/color]
[color=#66cc00]BEGINNING NOMAN BOOT SEQUENCE…[/color]
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[color=#66cc00]DEEP AMBER…ONLINE[/color]
[color=#66cc00]PULSATING AMBER…ONLINE[/color]
[color=#66cc00]SKYGLASS KNIFE…ONLINE[/color]
[color=#66cc00]ALL SYSTEMS NOMINAL[/color]
[color=#66cc00]CURRENT NOMAN’S FRIEND CHARGE LEVEL: 100[/color]
[color=#66cc00]COMMENCE LACRE CHARGING SEQUENCE…[/color]
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Yes, I do distinctly remember once having a Monday TTH, and I am now solidly into a Tuesday TTH. Everytime Failbetter has server issues, that time creeps forward a bit.[/quote]
Until the last server shift, I was Monday 6PM and I’m now Tuesday 1PM (EDT). I had started even earlier on Mondays, if I remember.
Apparently my TtH is at 2 pm now, not 8 am like it was last time I checked. (10 pm GMT; I’m on Pacific Standard Time.) I lost 59 Noman’s Friend.
I’ve got it back up to 90 after applying two vials of Tears; the RNG seems to like me today.
Starting to feel downright confident. Already up to Noman’s Friend: 340 with 6 pails and 3 tears left, and at this rate, I’ll be able to use them all without issue. As far as I can tell, I’ve got to make it through 2 or 3 TTH (depending on how quick I am, as my TTH should hit soon after the festival starts). Unless these last few melts start hitting for substantially over 100 each, things should work out.
Well, now that I’ve gone and tempted fate…
The last few melts can hit substantially over 100. The upper bound that I recall last year was around 120 and that’s not o say that the actual upper bound wasn’t higher
Wish you all good luck, lads!
Uh, Genesis, glad you put your Noman’s friend and Buckets on profile; lovely!
Can’t wait next year’s to take part of this as well! Already have 3 tears and two whispers!
Welp, thanks to some good luck, I managed to get ToL 15 whilst saving one last pail of snow and 5 vials of tears. Which means (as long as the wicket doesn’t sneak close or something) later tonight BRINKMAN THE NOMAN WILL LIVE! LONG LIVE THE BRINKMAN!
One question: the vial of tears wiki page states the noman can be fed tears only during christmas season, but I don’t see any notice of that on the vial card itself, so what’s the deal?
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Edit: Actually, in an influx of sudden rationality, I’ll just use the ToL to insta-grind 2-3 more tears in the Nadir for next year. Woe Brinkman! Woe! To be conceived of, yet unborn!
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edited by PageofCups on 1/25/2017
Ok so my conversion is complete. I now have 556 NF and no pails. The plan is not to use any of my tears unless there is an emergency.
The next question, which hadn’t really occurred to me until now. What on earth do I do with the undiscardable Abundant Noman’s Progress now?! Do I park it my hand and reduce my hand size for almost a month? Or do I keep plonking five actions a turn into it to grow Noman’s friend (which will yield a whopping 52 penny return on the Elemental Secret)?..
[quote=genesis]Ok so my conversion is complete. I now have 556 NF and no pails. The plan is not to use any of my tears unless there is an emergency.
The next question, which hadn’t really occurred to me until now. What on earth do I do with the undiscardable Abundant Noman’s Progress now?! Do I park it my hand and reduce my hand size for almost a month? Or do I keep plonking five actions a turn into it to grow Noman’s friend (which will yield a whopping 52 penny return on the Elemental Secret)?..[/quote]
When did you buy that Noman because I remember you had 50 buckets?
Regarding the card you can just farm Noman knows (via quirks) just for the fun of it! You did reach a nice level of NF so let’s see how far you can get with NK. :D
[quote=genesis]The next question, which hadn’t really occurred to me until now. What on earth do I do with the undiscardable Abundant Noman’s Progress now?! Do I park it my hand and reduce my hand size for almost a month? Or do I keep plonking five actions a turn into it to grow Noman’s friend (which will yield a whopping 52 penny return on the Elemental Secret)?..[/quote]How do you figure it’s a 0.52 echo return? Raising Noman Knows (which I assume you meant here, instead of Noman’s Friend) to level 15 requires 120 change points. Several of the options on the Noman’s Progress card give +3 cp of Noman Knows (such as the one that drains Melancholy), but even if you only get +1 cp per card, that’s only 120 actions, in exchange for an item worth 312.5 echos. Considerably more return than 0.52 echos per action. It’s certainly worth less than the cost of all those pails, but that’s not why you bought them…
Noman Knows, yes. I don’t really want to tank my quirks. The only branch that I can see that spends the card without tanking quirks or NF is the ambition branch, which is 5 actions per pop (unless you have LF which I don’t). It’s early in the morning though so I could be talking rubbish…
Eta: admittedly I am not counting gossips and snippets here… Each use is, on average, 1.05 echoes. So 120 uses and elemental secret gives (120*1.05 + 312.5)/601=0.73 Still very poor
edited by genesis on 1/26/2017
The Hedonist option doesn’t consume Hedonist. That’s why I use it for the bulk of my Noman Knows grinding.
Hm fair point. It does consume Austere but I’ve already let mine drop below 10 so I suppose it’s not a big deal. It costs 0.88 so the net profit is 259.7 but that’s still hefty profit over 60 actions. Ok, I guess that’s what I’ll do. Thank you!
If you are a spirifer, you can use the Heartless quirk and easily raise it back to 14 by handing souls to the devils (while making a nice EPA profit out of the deal)