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New Player Question: Repeatable Action?
BetweenTwoParks
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1/31/2016
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Sometimes when I am investigating a mystery, it looks like I can ask the same person the same question and get the same answer repeatedly, without apparently making any changes.
I get that hitting a spider with a hammer will be the same each time I do it, but it does not feel like I should be asking "was the duke a charming man" repeatedly. Is the player expected to keep track of this in the journal?
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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
1/31/2016
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There is quite a lot of redundancy in FL. Although the total amount of content is quite large, one will still find himself repeating the same actions over and over again. Most repeatable actions will increase an index, such as a connection with a certain faction. Usually there is an indication of this in the result, as in "Your x index is increasing." Since the system uses "change points," which make an incremental increase to an index (usually delta/index = next rate, so it takes 2 CP to reach two, 3 more to reach 3, etc), and an action often gives only one change point, the same action may be required to reach the next level. There is no reason I can see to keep an account of each of these increments, one should only put significant moments in the journal. Some players, indeed, get along quite nicely without using it at all.
-- Mal
edited by malthaussen on 1/31/2016
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2/1/2016
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Also, some options allow you go get items like (memories of distant shores as one example) should you repeat the process. This is a perfectly acceptable grinding option should you choose to and some cards even offer this. But mainly, what Mal wrote.
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