Poison Penny
Posts: 12
9/19/2016
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Does anyone else here like, really dislike the plans tab? I like the idea of the mechanic, as I'm a very organized person, but the pell-mell list makes my head hurt. I try to use the notes to remind myself where the action is I've saved, but as we all know FL is so labyrinthine it's nearly impossible to actually remember the steps necessary to get back to that action.
I'm wondering if anyone else shares my frustrations and/or maybe has some suggestions for how to put it to better use/alternatives they've found work for them!
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rahv7
Posts: 294
9/19/2016
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I use plans in the exactly opposite way they were intended: I mark the options I *don't* want to play, so when I do a round of A Boxful of Intrigue or get "An Unsigned Message", I have these nice little red flags on options where terrible things will happen if I play them. This has helped a lot in the past to not lose Favours or Notability or become a Turncoat.
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aegisaglow
Posts: 202
9/19/2016
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It always bothered me that the plan couldn't actually be enacted from the plan tab, but programming that is probably really complicated (since it'd have to determine whether that option is actually available to you at the moment). But something that shows where that action is located (including location, card and/or storylet) would be helpful.
Although I never actually use the plans tab, anyway.
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Optimatum
Posts: 3666
9/20/2016
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Action cost wouldn't work at all given that different people have different options available, different chances of success, and different willingnesses to do certain things. For example a friend of mine won't steal anything so doesn't use Thefts of a Particular Character.
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An Individual
Posts: 589
9/20/2016
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I use the plans tab extremely sparingly mostly so I can reference it to remind myself how much of something I need. I think that ends up just being summoning the Amanuensis, Drowning my Secrets on the Seeking Road, and building a Noman so I could track the Noman cost status without visiting the Wicket when I was going for a tattoo. From the perspective of these uses I have no complaints.
I've never tried to use it to track story stuff. I reached the content boundaries before they were implemented and am used to turning to the wiki if I get completely lost (which is, admittedly, not always the easiest source to navigate).
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