Gerald Edgerton
Posts: 127
8/31/2015
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So I recently got a bit tired of grinding (I know, ha ha, I know nothing yet about grinding) and decided to change up my game a little bit before playing cards any more with Mr Apples. The stat checks were straightforward, but I've already sunk a decent pile of resources into losing that luck check. and don't feel like getting 15 stakes only to win on the second try after spending weeks grinding rumours, wine, influence and amber. I may use Fate; the luck check takes the fun out of the storylet for me. I also may come back with a higher number of stakes and just crack the odds. While deciding, I'm finally exploring heists as a means of income.
Getting 25 Echoes worth of Bazaar Permits for 7 Burglar's progress at the triple-bolted level has proved an OK source of income. My preference of coming thoroughly prepared makes it difficult to get a lot of echoes per turn, although entering without any keys, information or escape routes would be lucrative, indeed, if I were fine with depending on luck checks. What I've noticed, though, is that if I come in with 2-4 Inside Information, a key and an escape route, I usually amass 10-20 Burglar's Progress before things get hairy. My Dreadful, Shadowy nature, my good standing among the Duchess and ratkind and other assets allow me to make a lot of "sure thing" investments in Burglar's Progress, and if my cat-like tread is in good shape I can risk a point on a luck check, preferably with decent odds. Occasionally I'll even restore a point of inside information or cat-like tread. I can escape, but my best escape is usually to simply take what I came for.
This utterly destroys my profit per turn in echoes, but I can get 20-40 CPs of Making Waves, with the better Inside Information uses gaining me 4 MWs/turn when I cash them in. I've found it pretty easy to achieve 10 levels of MW in a day, and even towards 20 MW I can gain a full level after a solid heist. With the BDR that can be achieved without tattoos, we're still talking about achieving 5+ Notability or maintaining 10+ Notability without any real use of Salons or other emergency resources.
I haven't studied properly yet for my Midnighter exam, but now my 5th point of Notability isn't looking like as much of an obstacle. I'm loath to WASTE Waves by not cashing them in for Notability; what do you guys usually do when your Notability climbs the upper single digits but you're not trying to hoard it for Tier 2 stat boosts? I'm involved in Wine, but I don't know if summoning the Portly Sommelier is the best use of all those waves. Any suggestions?
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Gonen
Posts: 817
8/31/2015
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Thank you for sharing that information.
That was most educating for me.
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metasynthie
Posts: 645
9/1/2015
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Go for a record streak in throwing the Amanuensis out of your house on his oily little ear; seems like a very valid use of Notability.
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Sackville
Posts: 295
9/2/2015
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The Portly Sommelier actually costs you money on the higher tier options (437.5 echoes of Airag turns into a 312.5 echo Tear), so it's not a very good plan if you want to turn extra Notability into cash.
Trading Notability for Prize Tokens and tokens for Brass Rings is to the best of my knowledge the most profitable thing you can do with it, but at 2.5 echoes per point of Notability it's not really an amazing trade.
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Sackville
Posts: 295
9/4/2015
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None of the highest tier items are profitable to acquire. The Wines item, and the other item available in February, both cost more significantly than their sale value to get. If you want one (or more) of these items merely for the sake of having it then using your notability on the Sommelier is fine, but there is no way to make the trade profitable.
Let's work this through. The final step in the plan is to upconvert Touching Love Stories at ~5 echoes per conversion action ignoring Bohemian cp (mostly from the rare success, which I'm guesstimating at 5%). This is 25 actions for 1687.5 echoes in Permits, Clues, and Airag minus the cost to acquire a certain item.
That item costs a single action and a vial of M_____'s B___d to acquire. Said vial costs you 7 points of notability, another action (assumed free, since the point is to cash in any excess), and 5 Tears of the Bazaar. We're up to 28 actions and 5 Tears for our 1687.5 profit.
A Tear of the Bazaar, acquired via the Portly Sommelier, costs 7 bottles of Airag (and three actions) to acquire. Since we need 5 Tears we need a total of 35 Airags, and here's the problem. 35 Airags already sell for 2187.5 echoes! You're far better off cashing out at this step than you are spending an extra 49 actions and waiting for an annual event to go through the rest of the procedure.
So since you don't need to spend any notability to convert cellars into Airag, and playing the higher end options aren't profitable, the Sommelier is not a means of cashing out your notability (unless maybe you managed to acquire five Tears from the Nadir, but that's too glacially slow to serve as an outlet for excess MW or notability). The rest of the actions on the Sommelier's card are all okay but Airag to Tears specifically, and therefore anything that requires you to play the Airag to Tears conversion, is a net loss that you should only play if you want to have and keep one of the later items.
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Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
9/4/2015
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An Unsigned Letter.
Alternatively, you can help by filling in the rest of these actions!
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I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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marcmagus
Posts: 168
9/4/2015
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Estelle Knoht wrote:
Alternatively, you can help by filling in the rest of these actions!
Aha! There is a way to grind Favours!
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marcmagus, a scholar of the Correspondence of some minor note and bold explorer of the new Unterzee.
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