Kylestien
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6/19/2015
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What would it be and why?
Personally, I would add a social option for Watch owners to aid their friends in regaining their souls. I have a friend recently who lost his, and I would be more then happy to help him regain it.
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genesis
Posts: 924
6/19/2015
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For me, actually, there *is* that one thing which is above and beyond all other preferences:
A personal encyclopedia/much more powerful logging.
For a game whose main modus operandi is piecing vast number of tiny jigsaw puzzles together, it's remarkably hard to keep track of all the jigsaw puzzles. A wiki is very unsatisfactory, not only because it breaks immersion but also because I generally lose the sense of whether I've "discovered" some piece of worldbuilding or simply got spoiled on the wiki.
What I would like is something like the Bazaar tab where you have categories for NPCs, locations, factions, items etc and as you explore new entries open up and existing entries are expanded. *Ideally* of course this would be semi-automated but I realise that's a tall order.
Similarly, the journal would be much better organised. It would be searchable, it would be taggable, it would include the action text and not only the root and conclusion text (always seems like a strange exception/omission) and it could be organised by story branches (so that if you are pursuing several stories you can actually understand where you are in relation to each).
edited by genesis on 6/19/2015
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An Individual
Posts: 589
6/19/2015
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Got 2 that I can't choose between.
1) The ability to attach a message when you accept or reject a social action. This would make them much more conversational.
2) The ability to display more than 1 item and 1 quality on your profile. Ideally this would come in the form of something like a "trophy room" tab where you can choose what you want displayed and sort them into categories. This would let you give people a much better sense of what you've been up to and what your character is about. The echoed journal entry things are cool but they don't mean much outside of the context they appear in and reading through the list of echoes on a player profile isn't especially helpful.
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suinicide
Posts: 2409
6/19/2015
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I'd really appreciate the ability to "lock" options, so that you can never accidentally choose them.
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Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
6/22/2015
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Profession social actions via Free Evenings!
As a Murderer, optimize your friend's deck by killing (Struggling Artist / Artist's Model / Jewel Thief), thus leaving said menace incapacitated for a week!
I always wanted to order a hit on fictional people...
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Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
6/21/2015
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Hypersomnus wrote:
Agreed, however, as one who chose the spirifer's road, I would love the opportunity to steal the souls of my acquaintances. Perhaps through a long series of disguised social actions, culminating in a final disguised social action that only allows the theft if X menace is so high (wounds? nightmares?)
Yeah no, that sounds like a disaster in the making, because it turn the Soul Trade story into "pay real money to gain the exclusive ability to screw other players over with long lasting consequences for profit" while placing other players under the mercy of Shepherds (other paying players).
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Eru Illuvatar
Posts: 65
6/23/2015
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A way of ordering my equipment would be super - It's not much, but my sulky bat and bat with attitude should be together, dammit! And I don't want my +2s mixed in with my +8s!
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Hypersomnus
Posts: 76
6/21/2015
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Estelle Knoht wrote:
Yeah no, that sounds like a disaster in the making, because it turn the Soul Trade story into "pay real money to gain the exclusive ability to screw other players over with long lasting consequences for profit" while placing other players under the mercy of Shepherds (other paying players).
Yeah, upon further examination, my idea was unequivocally a really bad idea. It would ruin social actions altogether, also you are spot on in your acknowledgement that in order to keep non-paying players, you can't make Fate locked content central or detrimental to non-paying player's experience.
I think I'll amend my wish to: More social actions as a (non-mandatory) part of the game. The most fun I've had in FL has involved either tricking or helping my acquaintances. Most memorably, being commissioned to complete a particular theft to aid an acquaintance in the earlier stages of her ambition. Also, I would love to be able to aid a fellow player in writing a short story, performing a heist, pursuing a case, or preparing for a hunt.
edited by Hypersomnus on 6/21/2015
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Deanscig
Posts: 72
6/23/2015
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Estelle Knoht wrote:
Profession social actions via Free Evenings!
As a Murderer, optimize your friend's deck by killing (Struggling Artist / Artist's Model / Jewel Thief), thus leaving said menace incapacitated for a week!
I always wanted to order a hit on fictional people...
Would an Author just start throwing books at them?
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vitamancy
Posts: 43
6/19/2015
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I'll second "An Individual" for his suggestion (1). If someone invites me to coffee and starts a conversation, I'd love to have some way to reply without either inviting them to stick around for a second cup, or suggesting we start up a game of chess.
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Ian Hart
Posts: 437
6/19/2015
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Ooh, that's a wonderful notion. In theory there would be no harm in tying it to quality progress.
However, a lot of mysteries in Fallen London are put together by aggregating clues all over the place, and there's really no way of knowing /when/ a player has figured it all out.
What might be better is if, with the big journal update coming up, it became possible to tag journal entries by topic. I think that would make it much easier to piece together what you know, and how they all tie together.
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Sara Hysaro
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Posts: 4514
6/19/2015
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It'd be nice if Bats with Attitude had some sort of stat or use aside from selling/hoarding. I'd love to have a Shadowy or Dangerous bat companion.
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Snotra
Posts: 67
6/20/2015
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I have mentioned this elsewhere, but I would appreciate some decent women's footware and some nice silk pajamas or night gown/kimono. I'd even accept some scandal for the pleasure of lounging in my jarmies.
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BlakeTheDrake
Posts: 237
6/20/2015
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What I'd like to add... some way to manipulate luck-checks. Special, super-rare equipment that can improve your odds. Rare consumables that can give you 'second chances' on luck-checks. I know that's not how luck is supposed to work, but... this is a world of mystery and magic! Ancient deities lurk behind the mirrors, devils walk amongst us... surely, there are ways to move the Fates.
Devilbone Dice already exist, are really rare, and sell for next to nothing. They'd be perfect as 'second chances' for luck-checks.
Luck-boosting gear, meanwhile, would be the kind of thing you went on an epic quest for. The end-reward of a lengthy, and expensive story. Luck-checks would still be a matter of luck, of course - but just being able to move the odds a tick or two in your favor would make me feel much better about them. Y'know, just having DONE something, instead of being left with nothing to do by pray to the Random Number God...
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Togashi Jack
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6/20/2015
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The one thing that I'd like to see the most is them adding the Locked and Go buttons to plans that I put on the plans tab. Lets say I need Bazaar Permits and I just get the last Romantic Notion. Why do I need to leave where I am, go to the bazaar side streets, open up Baseborn and Fowlingpiece, make a Bazaar Permit, then go back to where I need to use it. Would be so much easier if I could do all that stuff on the Plan tab.
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Koenig
Posts: 466
6/21/2015
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Not sure if this is the kind of thing Failbetter or the community at large would want, but I think it would be interesting to see a variant of the available clubs in which players can co-create and operate one of there own (IE X number of players would have to work together to create the club, after which they could improve the club and raise its quality along with their own, unlocking secondary opportunity cards and eventually upgrading the stats on the equipment page)
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38thDoE
Posts: 60
6/23/2015
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Its funny, I was actually coming here to ask for an option to off the Entanglement with an old friend. Have a good sink for those Venom-Rubies cluttering up the economy. I'd be fine with eating a ton of scandal suspicion to pull it off too. The sad thing is, I actually leveled past the opportunity to meet the Struggling Artist and then equipped a Rat to go back and play through the story, not realizing that I was cursing myself.
Since that option was already stated though I'll say it would be cool to have some new places to go at Zee. After playing Sunless Sea there are a lot of ports closer than Polythreme to explore. Even if there isn't much to do there I'd love to visit for something different.
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xKiv
Posts: 846
6/23/2015
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Automatic outfits.
Even for a stat-capped character, there are still too many storylets where switching just one or two items is difference between not-100% and yes-100%. Usually, there's no reason not to just automatically use my best equipment, instead of having me waste dozens of seconds switching it one way before the storylet, and back after.
(exceptions: 1) when switching a (menace-giving) item off and back on would increase my base menace from 0 to 1 and 2) when I want lower stats for xp grinding; that would probably require either a non-obtrusive opt-out checkbox, or manual configuration of which outfit should be used for which stat
also 3) what to equip for multi-stat challenges)
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dov
Posts: 2580
6/21/2015
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I think it would make sense for both Shepards and Spirifers to be able to help other characters to recover lost souls (either via the C.V.R. or via connections in the spirifer community).
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Ian Hart
Posts: 437
6/22/2015
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As a reward for a big quest, it would be cool to learn the process of brewing Darkdrop Coffee. Spending ~20 actions at your lodging to produce one cup. Maybe also requiring sacks of darkdrop coffee beans, obtainable from the Blue Bazaar, perhaps.
It'd be great to have the option to, at some cost (in wounds, action efficiency, and overseas items of moderate expense) store up actions for later.
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Roshirai
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6/23/2015
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Having only recently climbed into the PoSI ranks, I guess I'd say I would most like to see a revamped or new piece of Dangerous content as mechanically interesting as Expeditions, Heists or Port Carnelian. While I totally understand that story has to be doled out in drips and drabs due to the nature of the game, I'm really not keen on the "repeat these six storylets over and over to build a particular Quality, which you can then spend for a small bit of story progress"-style of content. I really enjoy the stuff that uses Airs or the Opportunities deck cleverly, though! 
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