Shivah
Posts: 30
3/9/2015
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Not with the story elements, they entertain as always, but with the returns. You sacrifice a lot from your next captain when going this route,[spoiler] home, heirlooms, money, stats and scion all gone and all you get is a trinket saying one of your predecessors went east. [spoiler] Unless some interactions are changed with later playthrus that I've yet to encounter (not gotten too far with new captain yet due to my frustration at a near total reboot), this seems more a punishment than a victory.
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Gregg Johnson
Posts: 263
3/9/2015
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The most rewarding actions story-wise are usually the most damaging. You can know things, or you can stay sane and healthy. You can't have both.
And this is how it should be.
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Shivah
Posts: 30
3/9/2015
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And I do not feel that bit of story was sufficient reward for the effort and the soft reset that comes with it. You put as much or more effort into the horizon codex and traveling light stories and get comparable amounts of story, a nifty bonus to future captains, and no penalties. It just seams off.
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SporksAreGoodForYou
Posts: 291
3/9/2015
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It's certainly a rough blow. But I feel like it's a pretty funny one. If you can muster up the equipment to go east, I feel like you're in a good shape to get a captain back up and running pretty quickly. Once you get over the misery, you realise a new start is quite fun.
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fortluna
Posts: 306
3/10/2015
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I guess it depends on expectations? It's mentioned, or implied several times in the course of the ambition that the actions you undertake will cause you to lose everything.
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"You must kill nearly all that you are" is a pretty. unambiguous bit of flavor text, even without taking the lore association of Kingeater's Castle into account. I'm more interested in the story myself, and I was pretty much useless the rest of the day after I first played through it, so ymmv. [/spoiler]I kind of wish they'd advertise this ambition more, actually. I would have backed the kickstarter if I had known an experience like this was waiting.
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edited by fortluna on 3/10/2015
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WormApotheote
Posts: 725
3/10/2015
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I went into it expecting something like Seeking Mr Eaten's Name and honestly this is hardly punishing compared to that.
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No, I don't pull the Eater of Names.
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Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
3/11/2015
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WormApotheote wrote:
I went into it expecting something like Seeking Mr Eaten's Name and honestly this is hardly punishing compared to that.
That doesn't really work in single-player does it?
Personally I found Exaltation to be too cryptic while feeling like some big conclusion to Sunless Sea without enough closure.
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Estelle Knoht, a juvenile, unreliable and respectable lady.
I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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Gregg Johnson
Posts: 263
3/11/2015
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They didn't really know SMEN would work in pseudo-multiplayer either before doing it.
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Lashkar
Posts: 109
4/8/2015
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I'm thinking about pursuing this with my next captain - can someone clarify if all your other Legacy items disappear as well? I gather that your Ironclad Will, Scion, and Heirlooms get eaten but if you have stat-raising legacy items like the Boke of Sharps and A Dream of Red do those go too?
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Wriothesley: Call me "Risley". My first character, around midgame
Asesina Ballenas: whale killer. Alt, recently PoSI
Happy to accept most social actions; will help with menace reduction if it's reciprocated.
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Mr. Mister
Posts: 38
4/8/2015
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Personally, I see it as my end-end-game goal. That is, I plan on getting all the other goals first, then it'll be time to leave the zea - until I can return to visit its belows.
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You cursed a traveller, and I ain't one if I'm not returning, you sodiung!
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fortluna
Posts: 306
4/9/2015
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Lashkar wrote:
I'm thinking about pursuing this with my next captain - can someone clarify if all your other Legacy items disappear as well? I gather that your Ironclad Will, Scion, and Heirlooms get eaten but if you have stat-raising legacy items like the Boke of Sharps and A Dream of Red do those go too?
Yeah, you do give up everything.
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Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
4/12/2015
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Lashkar wrote:
I'm thinking about pursuing this with my next captain - can someone clarify if all your other Legacy items disappear as well? I gather that your Ironclad Will, Scion, and Heirlooms get eaten but if you have stat-raising legacy items like the Boke of Sharps and A Dream of Red do those go too?
Just checked, they seems to stay for me. The five legacy remains, everything else nope.
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I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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fortluna
Posts: 306
4/13/2015
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maybe I had an older save? that's good, though.
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