Diptych
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PSGarak
Posts: 834
4/10/2017
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Srebro wrote:
Good evening.
How do I grind stats prior to POSI?
Is the stat boost from starting profession worth it, or should I choose a more advanced profession?
How can I start "The Soul Trade" after purchasing it?
I started the game last week, progressing steadily until I reached plateau of sixth "Making my Name" for Persuasive and Dangerous, where many highly skilled challenges present. My unmodified stats are:
Watchful 34
Shadow 34
Dangerous 65
Persuasive 56
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Becoming a POSI doesn't really open up any stat-boosting opportunities, except that grinding on repeatable stat-challenges will become more profitable. The standard recommendations for increasing stats are grinding a repeatable action with a success rate of exactly 90%; Social Actions, available from your Lodgings; Cashing in Second Chances (earned from Social Actions or other methods), from the same storylets in your Lodgings; Completing the Making Your Name stories; and cashing in Favors/Connections for lessons.
If your stats are below 70, I would stick with a Training Profession. The stat boost they provide is rather substantial. Note that you can switch professions pretty easily, especially with the low-level ones, so don't be afraid to experiment.
Progressing through The Soul Trade requires drawing Opportunity Cards at several points. The very very first step might be in Ladybones Road or somewhere, but if you can't find a bordered storylet in any of the four 'starting' locations, then you're probably just waiting for a card.
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DrMoriviri
Posts: 67
4/10/2017
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Because at 90% you get 2 CP on success and 1 on failure. This is usually seen as a good trade-off between raising your stats and not risking too many menaces on unsuccessful checks. See the table on this link, under "Change points": http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Beginner's_Guide
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suinicide
Posts: 2409
4/11/2017
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Nope, pretty sure the grind stays open forever.
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Pumpkinhead
Posts: 516
4/11/2017
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I'll raise suinicide's pretty sure to a dead certain. The Affair of the Box carousel is impossible to get locked out of, although the options to progress the story do end at some point.
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Bertrand Lyndon
Posts: 95
4/11/2017
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motherofpigeons wrote:
What's the best way to farm Souls for a non-PoSI? I need 500 for "Making Your Name: A Raid on the Brass Embassy!" and for now I have only 273 from Scraps trade opportunity cards (and I'm almost out of Scraps). Or is it better to just buy them?
Exchanging 1 Criminal Favour for 160 souls with the 'An Implausible Penance' card (unlocked when you have at least 1 Criminal Favour) is the best non Fate-locked way to gain souls. Choose 'the smuggler's cave' and then 'one stone in a thousand'.
Otherwise, you can buy them, but they end up costing a pretty penny.
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dov
Posts: 2580
4/11/2017
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motherofpigeons wrote:
What's the best way to farm Souls for a non-PoSI? I need 500 for "Making Your Name: A Raid on the Brass Embassy!" and for now I have only 273 from Scraps trade opportunity cards (and I'm almost out of Scraps). Or is it better to just buy them?
While this is never the cost-effective method, if you don't want to wait for certain cards you can just buy them at the Bazaar. It will only cost you a handful of Echoes.
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PSGarak
Posts: 834
4/12/2017
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Waterpls wrote:
Which ambitions are finished?
None of them are finished. Light Fingers is further from completion than the others.
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Bertrand Lyndon
Posts: 95
4/12/2017
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DrMoriviri wrote:
What's the best repeatable source for intriguing snippets? I'm trying to purchase a personal recommendation, since "a polite invitation" apparently disappeared from my deck
Grind Stolen Correspondence (the best way is probably 'Ambush a few couriers for old times' sake' from 'Unfinished Business in Spite') and convert them into snippets at a 200:53 ratio.
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(My main profile: a Midnighter available for Orphanages)
Jordan Farchild, a kid who often meddles in things bigger than herself, and Bertrand's ward.
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Call me Barren on the IRC.
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suinicide
Posts: 2409
4/13/2017
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You just gain it after running through the carousel a few times.
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suinicide
Posts: 2409
4/13/2017
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Sorry, yes there's one on hunter's keep that raises DT.
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Fluby
Posts: 48
4/14/2017
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Rostygold wrote:
Kaijyuu wrote:
You're stuck with the card forever, unfortunately. It's an unfinished story.
More like one that has been pay-gated. The story is continued in a much more dramatic fashion in the Fate-locked story "The Gift".
It's not exactly continued, though, it's just about adding more on that subject. You're still stuck with that card, and that quality only influences "The Gift" a little.
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Bertrand Lyndon
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4/14/2017
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Matarile25 wrote:
I want to get the "Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar" connection, and I've read that the way to get it is to be invited to a revel of the masters, more specifically, I have to be invited by Mr.Wines. So, how do I achieve that? Is it a Opportunity Card? And where should I look for it?
I have my Persuasive at level 80 (level 102 if we count items) and my "A Name Signed with a Flourish" quality at level four.
If you have "A Name Signed with a Flourish" 4 you're eligible to be invited to A revel of the Masters, you just have to draw the required opportunity card. It is a costly way to raise Connected: the Masters, but there are no cheap ways outside of special opportunity cards during holidays (especially Sackmas) or Fate-locked storylets.
Other ways to raise Connected: the Masters (I think the revel can't get you past 1) are two options on the 'A libraryette for Mr Pages' opportunity card (both very costly) or gathering 2500 Romantic Notions and ask for an invitation to the Temple Club.
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(My main profile: a Midnighter available for Orphanages)
Jordan Farchild, a kid who often meddles in things bigger than herself, and Bertrand's ward.
(I check this profile less often than Bertrand and I use it only for very light roleplay)
Call me Barren on the IRC.
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Pumpkinhead
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4/14/2017
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It doesn't actually lock you out of using the menace reducing items, it just makes them less effective.
It doesn't really hurt to become a PoSI, and you eventually have to do it anyway to progress, so I wouldn't delay it. Don't rush it either. Just let it happen when it happens.
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McGunn/Bsymstad is on the slow boat, waiting to see if he can find out what death is. (I'm done with London for now. Thanks for everything!)
Amanda Albright is a *spoiler* now, like she always wanted.
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PSGarak
Posts: 834
4/14/2017
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Srebro wrote:
What are downsides of becoming a POSI?
The only minor disadvantage I read about is inability to use certain menace reducing items.
Actually, you can still use them, they're just slightly less effective. That's about it. You also start gaining things that put menace-reducing cards into your deck, so it evens out.
POSI is the endgame. There is a ton of content that you must become a POSI in order to access, as well as two tons of new ways to obtain resources. There's like one or two things that are meant to make life easier for new players that get taken away, although actually most of those are now gated by Making Your Name rather than POSI status (e.g. cheaper Suspicion reduction in the Flit, cheaper Wounds reduction in the Docks).
You should not hesitate to become a POSI. Honestly, being overwhelmed by the feeling of "there are so many things, I don't know what to do!" is ten times worse than any in-game disadvantages.
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Optimatum
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4/14/2017
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POSI is midgame as well as endgame, really. It covers quite a lot of content.
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suinicide
Posts: 2409
4/15/2017
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Nope, you lose many things but potential is not one of them.
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RIP suinicide, stuck in a well. Still has it under control.
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