bralex
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3/2/2017
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Registered just to vent. The Fidgeting Writer has done me in. A long chain of luck-based actions that I can't influence at all, burning resources and actions, go back to start if you lose a coin toss? Why not just make it one "odds are against you" 8-cost action, burn all the resources in one shot? There's no fun in this storylet, no real decisions, just a painful grind exacerbated by the loading times.
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Kaijyuu
Posts: 1047
3/2/2017
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I *still* use the Fidgeting Writer whenever I need bribes.
It's obviously a lesson in gambling.
A bad one if so, since the odds are in your favor and not the house's.
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The Master
Posts: 804
3/2/2017
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It's obviously a lesson in gambling.
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No more gift exchanges, im getting too many and I can barely hold these.
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bralex
Posts: 7
3/2/2017
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I'm not at the "grinding" stage - playing for fun and exploring the stories. This line felt like a waste of actions - it would take me 2 days just to transform 100 ToT, let alone the rest.
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An Individual
Posts: 589
3/2/2017
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I've got 55K echoes worth of Coruscating Souls from the Fidgeting Writer so I feel your pain. It's a high risk/high reward grind and I generally fell below average on the results. It isn't the most profitable grind in London, but it's up there and there are people who swear by it. Anyone really dedicating themselves to it (as I once did) tends to convert things in waves. So you pick a number and roll the dice on X Tales of Terror, then take the result of that and run all those through the next step, etc. I did groups of 100, but the usual advice is to do groups of 1000. It takes a long time to push through each level of the grind, but the advantage of doing it in bulk is A) you can use "Try Again" to speed things up and B) Unless the RNG really hates you you usually come out with at least something in the end.
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TheThirdPolice
Posts: 609
3/2/2017
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I sympathize, bralex, but this game has many stories and you don't need to play every one. The Fidgeting Writer story is designed to make other players happy, not you.
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Kaijyuu
Posts: 1047
3/3/2017
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OctaviaCrowe wrote:
Now, has anyone done the math on stopping the grind when you trade a Deal With a Devil for a brass ring? Because iirc, after that is when you start getting even odds rather than pretty good ones, and I wonder if the math works out more favorably.
It's true the later ones have 50% odds, however their rewards are more than twice the value the items you'd get by immediately cashing in. So you come out on top, overall.
The one except might be the second to last one. Yes, the sell values of the rewards are less than half that of a coruscating soul, but that Comprehensive Bribe is hard to get elsewhere without spending ~60 echoes in materials or opportunity cost.
edited by Kaijyuu on 3/3/2017
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