absimiliard
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4/28/2016
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I obsess over my stats. I'm curious if that's the case with other people or if you mostly just take it as it comes.
For myself I try very strongly to keep my stats aligned. I get remarkably uncomfortable when they get to the point where the lowest stat is ten or more points below the highest. Usually I try to keep them closer. I absolutely end up restricting my game-play in order to get the stats into the order I want; as an example I put a hold on my Labyrinth stuff when I got Dangerous "too high".
Currently I'm way out of whack, possibly due to my recent activities. Dangerous is now my low, so when I get back to London it's into the Labyrinth for more wrestling for me.
But I know other paths exist, I read of people taking a long time after hitting 100 in a stat before they get to POSI.
So how do people feel about stats? Do you obsess over them? If so, what is the nature of your obsession?
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NiteBrite
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4/28/2016
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Stats and I have a somewhat rocky relationship. I've gone from 0 to cap and back down to 0 maybe six times over and I'd probably do it all again with a smile. I've currently dropped my persuasive from cap to about 22 for fun for the seventh time. I guess you could say I am a person of unpredictable talents and skill.
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Emain Ablach
Posts: 348
4/29/2016
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I'm capped for now, but when I was still a younger Londoner, I didn't care in the slightest for my stats. I just wanted enough to do the stories I found interesting, and obtain what I needed. Nothing less, nothing more.
The only reason I'm capped is due to coincidence. I remember that my Persuasive stat was still around 150 when all others were at max, and stayed like that for over a year or more, without any change, because I just didn't do any story increasing Persuasive and were focused on other things (don't ask me what, I never really had plans or any strategy, I just go with the flow).
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Appolonia
Posts: 248
4/28/2016
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I let mine be wildly out of balance. I just follow stories that interest me, or do grinds for cards. I've had stats more than 100 pts apart.  Really, they sort of take care of themselves in the background. The only ones I watch are making waves and notability, since that has to flow with the TTH cycle each week.
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Grenem
Posts: 2067
4/28/2016
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absimiliard wrote:
I obsess over my stats. I'm curious if that's the case with other people or if you mostly just take it as it comes.
For myself I try very strongly to keep my stats aligned. I get remarkably uncomfortable when they get to the point where the lowest stat is ten or more points below the highest. Usually I try to keep them closer. I absolutely end up restricting my game-play in order to get the stats into the order I want; as an example I put a hold on my Labyrinth stuff when I got Dangerous "too high".
Currently I'm way out of whack, possibly due to my recent activities. Dangerous is now my low, so when I get back to London it's into the Labyrinth for more wrestling for me.
But I know other paths exist, I read of people taking a long time after hitting 100 in a stat before they get to POSI.
So how do people feel about stats? Do you obsess over them? If so, what is the nature of your obsession?
Currently trying to drive persuasive through the floorboards so i can get a few more cards in the nadir. otherwise apathetic to stat balances. At the same time, am trying to keep any of them from going too low, with the exception of persuasive of course.
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Ian Hart
Posts: 437
4/28/2016
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I'm maxed out in everything, except Shadowy, which has always trailed behind, and is still at like 150. So I'd say no, not really. I used to see them as a "self expression" sort of thing where my character is good at some stuff and bad at other stuff, but then I hit the ceiling and so they've all become the same.
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Professor Strix
Posts: 616
4/28/2016
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The only obsession, so to speak, I have is to keep my Watchful higher than the other stats because detective. It's been a tough battle as of late, since I haven't unlocked Wilmot's End yet, but I try.
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Social actions welcomed. Will take menaces if not currently grinding that one stat. Send them and cross your fingers.
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My alt loiters suspiciously if you want to:
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Kaigen
Posts: 530
4/29/2016
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I didn't care about keeping stats even until I was on the cusp of becoming a PoSI and Shadowy was still 70. After that I tried to keep them in line a bit better. Now that I'm capped, my main concern is that I make back the losses from the Nadir each week.
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"One must remember that the impossible is, alas, always possible."
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