Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
11/24/2012
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I have just played through the "Embark on a Heist" content for the first time and liked it quite a bit. At least for higher level players it has a good balance of novel content, atmosphere, and tasty level of reward for successful completion. In fact, I'm eager to play it again just to see more of the potential opportunity cards.
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Cathy Raymond
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Catherine Raymond aka Mrs. Rykar Malkus http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Catherine%20Raymond (Gone NORTH)
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Alexis Kennedy
Posts: 1374
11/27/2012
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And, as it happens, that second heist is now available.
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Nigel Overstreet
Posts: 1220
12/2/2012
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I wish there was an option for higher levels of Burglar's progress. I've gotten up to 11 in a vain attempt to get the maid to speak to me and could have gone even higher.
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Abraham Bounty
Posts: 251
12/2/2012
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My biggest gripe with this is only peripherally related to the heist, namely I am lamenting the loss of the single action options when Preparing for a Big Score. Most vexing when I am down to my last action for the night and have to go do something else.
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News in the Neath: Noted citizen of Fallen London, Abraham Bounty, has acquired six hundred and sixty six souls. Additionally rumour has it that the lion's share of those souls was from a theft of The Brass Embasy itself. We are quite certain that this portents nothing ominous for him. Well, nothing unusually ominous anyway.
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streetfelineblue
Posts: 1459
12/5/2012
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I just completed my first heist today, and I'm very pleased with the experience. It was quicker than I thought, but I liked how a prolonged, multi-action task wasn't just a long grind to prepare for a single last action, but rather allowed to prepare as much or as little as one liked, and then developed like a little storylet, nearly a mini-Ambition. Devolving the heist's actions to Opportunity Cards allows for more variety and takes away the grinding feeling, but the fact that the deck is temporarily a specific one allows a quick resolution, without all the wait when relevant Opportunity Cards are mixed in with all of the others. If this is an experimental mechanism for further game content, I wholeheartedly second a wider use of it! It's definitely better than grinding a quality or having to wait for Opportunity Cards (and cursing at every damned Stealth Watch Repair that pops up XD)
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Danae
Posts: 48
5/21/2013
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I like the content, but I have a few suggestions for improvement:
- Make it clear that if you fail the heist, you go to prison. I failed my first one and was completely taken aback to be sent to New Newgate. Most ventures you fail don't have that kind of drastic punishment.
- Reduce the action requirements to build up Casing. Since you need to get your Casing up well over 10, depending on how much insurance you want to buy, and each step takes 3 actions, it takes forever as you use up all your actions and have to wait. And unlike the heist itself, building up Casing is boring. Perhaps you could make some options cost multiple actions, with consonant rewards, but I think most of them should be normal, 1-action moves.
- How about adding a dark lantern as a purchase, which would get you through darkened areas?
The heist itself is fun — it's getting there I didn't enjoy.
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