Nagato-01
Posts: 92
3/20/2013
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I've just started on my first story. How's everybody else on it?
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Lawrence Growe
Posts: 96
6/1/2013
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Potential 210 failed in a challenge! Try again and you may have better luck..."
In all the years that I play the game I never came this close to smashing my keyboard in two and shoving it through the wreckage of the monitor.
Try again my arse. Here's to another fourteen weeks of waiting. It is an action one can undertake once every four months: suggesting I try it again is nothing but vile mockery, I say. Vile mockery!
A most sincere apology to the regulars of this worthy establishment, but I had to get it off my chest.
FOURTEEN. BLOODY. WEEKS.
GrrRrrRrrrRRRR.
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Alexis Kennedy
Posts: 1374
3/21/2013
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Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
Wasn't "a prototype for a much larger system" how the omniscient Illuminati AI described itself in the original Deus Ex? Anything you want to tell us, Alexis? All communications pass through Doubt St... if Doubt St could be invested with intelligence... then he who controlled Doubt St would control all of London!
>how the omniscient Illuminati AI described itself in the original Deus Ex?
Morpheus, yes. No subtext is safe when you're around. And all texts in Fallen London are subtexts.
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Alexis Kennedy
Posts: 1374
3/21/2013
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Haha! I popped in to mention this, but you chaps are ahead of me.
(i) there is a related bug with social actions that we're ironing out for a release this morning. (Increase from social actions is in fact capped, but the cap doesn't always fire).
(ii) this is a prototype for a much larger system. You can expect to see things flicker in and out of reality over the next couple of months. There is more related content coming; and the rewards from success are pretty substantial, so we will tune.
(iii) it'll be much easier to reach Classic status with later content and higher caps.
You may have noticed a pattern: Watchful and Shadowy have had some experimental systems, and now it's Persuasive's turn.
edited by Alexis on 3/21/2013
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Finvara
Posts: 430
6/2/2013
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I think you'd be surprised at how very much of our discourse is observed. I think that the ability of the community to be heard is one of my new favorite things about Echo Bazaar in the recent months since I returned.
As for myself, I am ALSO waiting another fourteen weeks to attempt creation of a Classic tale. Failing on such random chances is intensely frustrating, but unless a new second-chance mechanic is introduced to encompass challenges that don't involve our primary statistics, I don't see a way to alleviate that particular issue.
I can only offer condolences and sympathy until then.
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Theus
Posts: 311
6/2/2013
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Sometimes a 2/3 chance of success should be read as "a 1 in 3 chance you won't like the outcome."
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Delmar Tramontane
Posts: 50
3/23/2013
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For those curious: The Author's Reward
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Fallen London Profile.
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A B Nile
Posts: 414
11/29/2013
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Hooray! Classic short story just completed thanks to the second Trade Secret. Now to begin again, write an Exceptional one, and become an author! And this time, to not waste 96 manuscript pages by failing to understand that anything you are left with after the final edit disappears...
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My profile: A B Nile
My alt: Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
(seeking Acquaintances and accepting all social actions)
Item conversion table - finally complete with all rare successes!
Bloody, bold and resolute
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Sara Hysaro
Moderator
Posts: 4514
6/4/2013
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I'm not sure that writing is good for money, but it is nice for Persuasive as long as you have the resources to put into it. Mahogany Hall is pretty good for money, and thanks to a certain Popular Song you won't be menaced as much by failures.
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Sara%20Hysaro
Please do not send SMEN, cat boxes, or Affluent Reporter requests. All other social actions are welcome.
Are you a Scarlet Saint? Send a message my way to be added to the list.
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Diptych
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Posts: 3493
3/21/2013
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Wasn't "a prototype for a much larger system" how the omniscient Illuminati AI described itself in the original Deus Ex? Anything you want to tell us, Alexis? All communications pass through Doubt St... if Doubt St could be invested with intelligence... then he who controlled Doubt St would control all of London!
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Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron.
Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Fhoenix
Posts: 602
3/21/2013
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Spacemarine9 wrote:
also going to->from the "finish your story" stage shouldn't take an action imo. especially because the "last-minute nerves" option costs an action... which is entirely pointless because you can just hit the "perhaps not" button to go back to the raw materials stage without spending an action
My thoughts exactly. Also if you only have one action, then moving into "finish your story" ends you up in a screen with all the actions locked. Then you have to refresh the screen, and you may or may not lose it on refresh.
Also disliked the luck based check in the end. I mean, this thing relies on rare successes (AGAIN! God damn, again) to progress to 200 already. And then you have one luck check that will annihilate all progress.
Aaaand suddenly I am the most persuasive person in all of London. All my requests for assistance returned 3 potentials, while I slept. It will be a long climb up...
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Theus
Posts: 311
3/22/2013
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Catherine Raymond wrote:
How does one become an Author?
The option is on the Bohemians contact card. Either flip until it comes, or write letters to them with Fate from your lodgings.
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PetulantProcrastinator
Posts: 75
3/20/2013
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I've decided to go for broke straight away and spend everything I have obtaining a classic piece of literature. This may take me a while.
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Early
Posts: 196
3/20/2013
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I must have missed this. What and where is it?
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lady ciel
Posts: 2548
3/20/2013
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Early wrote:
I must have missed this. What and where is it?
Veilgarden - Literary Ambitions
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Sorry RL means I am not a very active player at the moment. No social actions unless you are prepared to wait and definitely no sparring or other mult-action things.
No Calling Cards or boxed cats please. Will take dupes on the affluent photographers. Other social invitations welcome. Parabolan Kittens usually available, send me an in-game social action saying you want one and I will get one to you as soon as possible.
storynexus name - reveurciel
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Spacemarine9
Posts: 2234
3/20/2013
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either that or you're just having real issues with your ego
..huh, if that's the case then how DO you increase potential over 150. I have it at 154 and I would like to get a classic story, but i've got not a damn clue how to get it higher.
edited by Spacemarine9 on 3/20/2013
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FL lore/mechanics questions and answers
#FallenLondon IRC (irc.synirc.net) Channel! Click to join via Mibbit.
#SunlessSea IRC channel! Like the above, but zee-ier.
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Zeedee
Posts: 276
3/21/2013
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You can upgrade your Profession from Journalist to Author on the Connected: Bohemian opportunity card, the Demi-Monde one. It requires a connection score of Bohemian 25 and an Exceptional Story. This makes me wonder if we'll have to construct other elaborate Curiosity items to upgrade the other mid-game Professions.
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