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Fastest ways to get Fidgeting Writer items?
Optimatum
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5/31/2016
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What are the fastest ways to get the items for the various Fidgeting Writer stages? To my knowledge it's usually Thefts of a Particular Character and side/up-conversions, but I can't figure out for Identities Uncovered! and we might as well collect the information for everything in one place.
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Optimatum
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5/31/2016
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Ah, I missed that there were discussions of item gain in that thread as well as calculations for the main part of the grind! Rather silly of me in hindsight. Thank you!
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Kaijyuu
Posts: 1047
5/31/2016
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an_ocelot wrote:
Kaijyuu, I would love to see those calculations!
I was far too lazy to actually look up statistical formulas, so I just wrote a script that did 200,000 trials and gave me averages. Here's an example output:
Number of tales used: 200000. Cost: 10000000
Number of visions used: 139359. Cost: 6967950
Number of plaques used: 195086. Cost: 9754300
Number of souls used: 136554. Cost: 6827700
Number of identities used: 40688. Cost: 2034400
Number of extra used: 20375. Cost: 1018750
Number of candles used: 10158. Cost: 507900
Number of successes: 5057. Profit: 106676050
PPA: 185
Total actions: 576400
Initial Investment Requirement: 51355200
(all money numbers are in pence, not echos, and PPA is rounded down)
My success rates for each step are: 70%, 70%, 70%, 60%, 50%, 50%, 50%. Don't know if those are perfectly accurate.
Don't know if you can run python scripts, but if you can, here it is: http://pastebin.com/8TeSFW5k
EDIT: Very notably, my script does NOT take into account the wounds/nightmares increase from the second to last step!
edited by Kaijyuu on 5/31/2016
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