We'll also be trialling a new use for Renown. While we want Renown to remain an optional mechanic, we also want to recognise players who choose to invest in it. Therefore, as your Renown: Rubbery Men increases, you will be able to acquire three new, unique, equippable Rubbery items. The branches to purchase them will be hidden across the city, potentially in unusual locations. You may have to hunt for them!

Grenem wrote:

Are you going to add a source of rubbery connections? as it stands, the only real source is the conflict card, and they don't have a faction card.

Anyways, i guess i'd better get a few points connection before the change either way

If you have some fate lurking . . .

Unlock "Flute Street" you might have to wiki it to see how to unlock it, but I think it's on an opp card. It'll unlock a permanent path to a place where you can grind Rubbery connections, among other things, and you'll also find a very special item there, too. It has some amazing lore, along with some good grinds, and it's very much worth the real life money

(he says, with a nervous eye on his Connected: Great Game of approx 350...)

I just drew the Secrets and Spending card, and "Find an Unusual Home for your Mark of Credit page" now lists "Closest to: Rubbery-Men" as one of the unlocks. I would take that as further confirmation that a Rubbery-Men faction card is coming.

Given that Rubbery Men also have no faction card or connected pet, and the scarcity of options using Widow and Dutchess connections, I'd expect those to be fairly simple to convert given the lower interaction with other factions. After all, that was the reason given for starting with the Criminals and other less-used factions.

Scarlet Saint can't require Renown 50 after the conversion because iirc it's literally impossible to get through grinding Favours. The final option on the faction items to convert Favours to Renown has a scaling stat requirement much like SotC, increasing by six levels per level of Renown increase. As such for some factions, criminals definitely, it's not currently possible to raise the relevant stat high enough to grind to Renown 50.

Robin Mask wrote:

Optimatum wrote:

Arguably, yes. The most profitable of the Term Passing activities were nerfed last I heard.

I think that may be the case . . .

I remember being really annoyed on my main that I couldn't continue the Term Passing, as I was getting some amazing stuff I would have hoarded beforehand else . . . either time since then has taught me perspective, or they nerfed it by a lot, as my alt recently played through the Term passing and could see nothing worth keeping him there, and so left the university without any worries.

Yes, the better option for Casing there was nerfed.

Well, I'm at Flute right now. It is not a good way to raise connections.
[spoiler] You can do it only at the second part of carousel, from 7-9 (evert action raise the carousel by 2 cp, meaning 14 actions just to get to that part) and every action only raise connection by 5 cp (giving +45 cp for that part). Final prize does not raise it. Total of 23 actions for 45 cp. Since this is not the best (or second best or even a good way to) grind for echos, probably it is better of to wait at London and draw cards with your 23 actions. 2 conflict cards can give you 60 cp, while you are doing something else at London. [/spoiler]
edited by Gonen on 4/27/2016
edited by Gonen on 4/27/2016

That's a good point. The Rubbery men have no faction card, no conected pet, and the ony way to reliablly get connections is fate locked. With no way to really get any favors an no way to SPEND them either, somethings got to change with favors in this regard.

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Probably not enough yet to get me all three items promised earlier on, but I'm determined to raise it as much as possible until Tuesday for the best shot possible Seeing as renown is a pain to raise, I'm better off doing all I can now than to attempt it after XD

This place will stay open after fate purchase with no further investment needed).

Optimatum wrote:

Okay I just did the final option and I think it increased by 18 CP for me, if I'm counting right. I was 2 CP shy of 27 and now after doing the 5 CP mid-carousel option once I'm at 21 CP.

I did another loop and also think that it's 18 or possibly 19 CP.
I took screenshots before and after, so if somebody wants to count pixels, here you go: http://imgur.com/WIgzKs9

Does Flute street raise connections? Is it a good source for that? I forgot.