Here’s this week’s quick questions thread!
I’m looking for some echoes, since the game and my phone both had some troubles as I was playing through part of Flint, and I didn’t get to read some things… I’m looking for the echo of what happens when you give the Optimistic response to the Woman in Yellow’s regrets, and the echo for entering Caution on your own (without the knapt or the deputy’s regrets.) Can someone point me to those?
[edit] And now that I’m done, I asked the Bishop about the thief-of-faces… anyone got echoes for the other two?
Also turns out I messed up the choices. I wanted to get the stat bump, but it turns out that I made the wrong choice for that very early on when I chose that all shall be well :(
edited by Amalgamate on 1/22/2020
I’ve recently started doing terms as governor of Port Carnelian, and I was wondering how many terms it’s realistic to do before heading back to London. I’m usually drained of Imperial Legitimacy by the end of my second term, but it seems possible to do four if I spend my third term building up Legitimacy and doing a state dinner. There’s some luck involved, so I was wondering what other governors have to say about the matter.
well its somewhat boring but if you just spend your entire term at the tea shop or assembly your legitimacy wont be hit at all, its what I did.
When I spent time at Port Carnelian, I generally kept terms going indefinitely. Tended to try and keep my Imperial Legitimacy between 30-50.
When you’re below 30, don’t play any actions that would drop your legitimacy. At other times, prefer ones that raise your legitimacy, unless it’s over 80. Try to keep your Horseheads and Striped Delights both pretty high so you can trade one for the other.
If you go to https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/Matters_of_State you can see all the options and optimize (except the Fate-Locked Aunt one, which is good to play if you have an Aunt).
Generally you want to keep Legitimacy over 20, keep horseheads and delights evenly balanced, prefer to avoid playing the "+4 horseheads or delights" option, try to raise legitimacy whenever possible, and prefer an audience with the Banded Prince as the capstone feast, because of the bonus tribute.
edited by Amalgamate on 1/22/2020
[quote=Amalgamate]If you go to https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/Matters_of_State you can see all the options and optimize (except the Fate-Locked Aunt one, which is good to play if you have an Aunt).[/quote]Can you add the results inside a spoiler tag? :)
Amalgamate’s advice looks good to me. If you want to do your own risk/reward assessment with more information, the Wiki has a lovely table of the outcomes of the various Port Carnelian cards here: https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/Matters_of_State
Would Tribute or the Chalcolite Pagoda be better for a Theorem grind?
Thanks for the advice, everyone. I do have an Aunt, which does help the grind a lot. I have a bunch of Sudden Insights, too: Is it worth trying A Dangerous Source even if my is only 188? It’s not a reliable source of Delights, but it doesn’t cost much on a failure either.
Chalcolite Pagoda would be much slower if you want to keep EpA high and use every good opportunity card. Probably 1-2 expeditions per day.
Tribute route is lower by EpA, but you need less than 20 days to do it optimally.
edited by Waterpls on 1/22/2020
This is the one I used, as it allows you to stay in London. If you draw cards, get faction favors and use them at the Court for a ballet, you can also build Favor at the Tiger Court, which means you are doing two enigma grinds at the same time.