ClockworkCheshire
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7/8/2016
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I'm a fairly new player to Fallen London, (I've been playing for around 3 months now, and absolutely loving it!) and a certain Name has caught my eye.
I know I will eventually become a Seeker, of that there is no doubt. BUT, I also realise I'm a VERY new player. I'm not even a POSI yet, and I know that Fallen London has so much to offer.
Seekers, I would like some advice. At what point should I Seek the Name? Does it matter? If I want to get the most out of Fallen London, should I wait for a while? Explore some more for a few months before I am ready to drive my character into madness? At what point did YOU Seek the Name?
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Grenem
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7/8/2016
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ClockworkCheshire wrote:
I'm a fairly new player to Fallen London, (I've been playing for around 3 months now, and absolutely loving it!) and a certain Name has caught my eye.
I know I will eventually become a Seeker, of that there is no doubt. BUT, I also realise I'm a VERY new player. I'm not even a POSI yet, and I know that Fallen London has so much to offer.
Seekers, I would like some advice. At what point should I Seek the Name? Does it matter? If I want to get the most out of Fallen London, should I wait for a while? Explore some more for a few months before I am ready to drive my character into madness? At what point did YOU Seek the Name?
I didn't start until about two weeks ago. that said, my advise would be as follows:
A) Don't seek the name, it will ruin your stats, bring pain, suffering and ultimately death.
B) if you must seek the name, start it slowly. Marsh-mired (well, the options locked with it) and unaccountably peckish cards can provide one level SMEN each week, which is far cheaper than most alternatives (but holds the price of being one level a week.) This will be a light penalty, if you go through it using those cards, every week, in exchange for cheap progress. this would also take 25 weeks to get you from lv.2 to lv. 27, where they stop functioning, which should be plenty of time to get set up.
C) Don't sell your soul. This will save you much pain and suffering.
D) Expect to Destroy your character at the end. [this is not a euphemism, this is as gone as a killed character isn't.] make an alt when it looks like you're getting close- not now, so that the suffering is even worse- since you have to start over from scratch.
E) Gather lots of case notes from the detective case option this festival. as many as you can. this will save you much suffering in getting cerise's candle. 100 is not overkill, though it is undeniably plenty.
F) try to get a ticket to winking isle as soon as you hit SMEN 21, and read a guide on it. this'll be the best way to progress between candles- which really doesn't say as much as you'd think.
G) Do not start the serious phase of seeking until you've played all content you are interested in. Don't go north until you've seen the world and know what you are giving up.
edited by Grenem on 7/8/2016
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Ian Hart
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7/8/2016
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Do note also that you will, if you seek all the way to the bitter end, lose access to your character permanently. So it may be worthwhile to start cultivating an alt now if you want to play future content after you finish seeking.
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Monogatari
Posts: 19
7/9/2016
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I 100% do *not* have 200 Watchful and completed SMEN. I have 140 raw, with another 60ish provided by items.
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absimiliard
Posts: 759
7/9/2016
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Even without an Exceptional Friendship that level of Watchful sounds completely do-able in six months. I do have EF for my Abs, and am just about stat-capped in all four after almost exactly six months. I figure even without EF I could have easily made 170 by focussing on it.
That's nice, definitely makes it do-able by fairly new characters.
Maybe I should make some alts, see all the endings.
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Esteban Delgado
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7/9/2016
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I would note that even Marsh-Mired once a week is no guarantee of progress. Because the various cards are capped as to the level of SMEN you can reach, and these cards are tied to UP. With a UP of 6, I drew the two three times in a row. Since the card must be played, it will reduce your UP and not give you a SMEN point if you are above the cap. So one may have to clog his deck with low-value cards (and not be foolish like me and play them) to earn higher values of SMEN.
Although the warning will be lost on an early player, do NOT carry the Wars of Illusion storyline to the point where you lose the Cats and Bats story in the Flit; there is an option there to easily increase UP with a starveling cat without the need to trade it back and forth with another Seeker.
Oh, I seem to be in error. Bats and Cats has returned to the Flit, and there is now a "Seeking" option to raise SMEN to 5! Presumably, then, the storylet was pulled to modify it, and I thought it was a result of the Wars of Illusion. Well, that is good news, now one can easily raise UP and hopefully draw a higher card for Marsh-Mired.
edited by Esteban Delgado on 7/9/2016
edited by Esteban Delgado on 7/9/2016
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