Absintheuse
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5/22/2017
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Hello delicious friends! Over the coming months, we have exciting plans for Fallen London. As we alluded to in the last FBG Podcast, we have been working on a special Fallen London project, which we’re delighted to now announce.
A dedicated team of Cash (writing and design), Sam (tech), and Caolain (analytics and design) have already begun work. Their remit: to address a range of Fallen London content and systems that have been awaiting development. Systems we've wanted to expand. Stories we want to finish.
Some of their work will take place behind the scenes, improving our tools for writing Fallen London content. Much of it, however, will take centre stage. We've deliberated what's possible development-wise within 2017, and what will be most delectable to you, our players.
The team's priorities include continuations of some of Fallen London's most long-awaited stories. The Cheery Man and the Last Constable. The Dilmun Club. A Return to the Empress' Court. And - dare we say it? - the next chapter in the Light Fingers ambition!
To begin with, we’ll be continuing to add new factions to the Favour/Renown system, including prestigious new items to be earned from the Constables and Hell. Perhaps you'd like to be belt out a Hellish Hymn, or be one of the few who knows about the Place Where they Bury the Bodies. We'll also be releasing an expansion to the social content available through your Lodgings, taking advantage of some changes in the technology that governs social acts.
The project is scheduled to last for much of the rest of year. It will take place in addition to our regular release of Exceptional Stories and seasonal events (who will run for mayor of Fallen London this year, we wonder? Rumour has it we'll be seeing our first bandaged candidate...), so please bear with us. Throughout the process, we’ll be sure to keep informed with what we’ve been up to and will also be interested to hear your feedback as each update goes live!
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Pumpkinhead
Posts: 516
5/22/2017
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OH YEAH!
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Lallinka
Posts: 138
5/22/2017
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Woo! I'm so happy! I've been very disheartened with the timer issues and the app bugs, but this makes me excited all over again!!
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Barse
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5/22/2017
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I think I'm speaking for almost everyone when I say this is fantastic news - looking forward to seeing what comes from the Reworks!
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TheThirdPolice
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5/22/2017
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnJDJN4VA
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Rostygold
Posts: 346
5/22/2017
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Well, to anyone who made the suggestion that one of the Renown items for the Constables should be on Corpsecage Island, congratulations.
Failbetter's writers decided to heed your suggestion and highlight the sinister side of the Constables instead.
P.S. Ah... so the Renown 40 Hell item at the Iron Republic would be a hymn. I thought that it would be something like the remnants of a broken law instead.
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Skinnyman
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5/22/2017
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Lovely, great, incredible! 
Can't wait to check out the new Renown options! Just few more days...!
Absintheuse wrote:
And - dare we say it? - the next chapter in the Light Fingers ambition!
Dare we ask it? Will the ending be included; the first ambition to be finished?
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Mr Sables
Posts: 597
5/22/2017
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Ah, I'm glad to hear about this 
Those were 95% of the reasons why I just decided to take a hiatus with my main, as I was pretty frustrated, so this news couldn't have come at a better time! I'll definitely keep an eye out for any new updates and will be back to play I might even keep up my EF, if the old content updates aren't too far off
Thanks for the head's up!
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TheThirdPolice
Posts: 609
5/22/2017
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Skinnyman wrote:
Absintheuse wrote:
And - dare we say it? - the next chapter in the Light Fingers ambition!
Dare we ask it? Will the ending be included; the first ambition to be finished?
Unless plans have changed, this will be Light Fingers' penultimate update. After that, they will (eventually) release Ambition conclusions in this order: Bag a Legend, Nemesis, Heart's Desire, Light Fingers.
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Saklad
Posts: 528
5/22/2017
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This is truly a spectacularly good move. Exactly what the veteran playerbase, small though it may be, wanted to hear.
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Parelle
Posts: 1084
5/22/2017
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I wait with anticipation for a deluge of Rats.
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dov
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5/22/2017
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TheThirdPolice wrote:
Unless plans have changed, this will be Light Fingers' penultimate update. After that, they will (eventually) release Ambition conclusions in this order: Bag a Legend, Nemesis, Heart's Desire, Light Fingers.
I would very much love some comment from FBG on this to clear up this point.
Although people keep repeating this as fact, I've never seen anything from anyone at FBG actually stating that the latest round of Ambition updates is the penultimate one.
In fact, if you go *really* back in the forums (years before the latest update rounds), you can find posts where people claimed that *previous* Ambition updates are "known" to be the penultimate one and the next one should be the last.
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ochrasy
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5/22/2017
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oh my god, the Dilmun Club. and the Last Constable! today is a very happy day.
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ochrasy
Posts: 169
5/22/2017
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dov wrote:
TheThirdPolice wrote:
Unless plans have changed, this will be Light Fingers' penultimate update. After that, they will (eventually) release Ambition conclusions in this order: Bag a Legend, Nemesis, Heart's Desire, Light Fingers.
I would very much love some comment from FBG on this to clear up this point.
Although people keep repeating this as fact, I've never seen anything from anyone at FBG actually stating that the latest round of Ambition updates is the penultimate one.
In fact, if you go *really* back in the forums (years before the latest update rounds), you can find posts where people claimed that *previous* Ambition updates are "known" to be the penultimate one and the next one should be the last.
I think it's fair to assume all ambitions will be the same size, and Bag A Legend still isn't finished. so it wouldn't make any sense for Light Fingers to be finished now (unless they release a "two-part" update, that puts it ahead of the other ambitions)
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TheThirdPolice
Posts: 609
5/22/2017
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dov wrote:
Although people keep repeating this as fact, I've never seen anything from anyone at FBG actually stating that the latest round of Ambition updates is the penultimate one.
Given the delay between updates and the stated difficulties in writing content for a tiny audience, I will eat my hat if Failbetter decides to add another round after the ones I mentioned. :P
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dov
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5/22/2017
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ochrasy wrote:
I think it's fair to assume all ambitions will be the same size, and Bag A Legend still isn't finished. so it wouldn't make any sense for Light Fingers to be finished now (unless they release a "two-part" update, that puts it ahead of the other ambitions)
Light Fingers is still waiting for its latest update.
The latest Ambition update round was announced in October 2015. Since then, 3 Ambitions have received an update, and just Light Fingers is missing.
There's a belief by a few players that this latest update round (i.e. the upcoming Light Fingers update and the 3 updates the other Ambitions have already received) is the penultimate one. i.e that after this upcoming Light Fingers update, all 4 Ambitions will be one update away from finished.
My comment was that while people often reference his penultimate status of this update round as fact, I've never seen anyone from FBG comment as such, and would very much appreciate a comment from them to either corroborate or deny this long-lived rumour.
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dov
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5/22/2017
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TheThirdPolice wrote:
dov wrote:
Although people keep repeating this as fact, I've never seen anything from anyone at FBG actually stating that the latest round of Ambition updates is the penultimate one.
Given the delay between updates and the stated difficulties in writing content for a tiny audience, I will eat my hat if Failbetter decides to add another round after the ones I mentioned. :P
Things can always change, of course.
But the thing is I've never encountered (and never seen anyone cite a reference to) an actual comment by FBG that the last round was ever *supposed* to be the penultimate one. I have seen many people repeat this as fact, so it would be nice for FBG to confirm one way or another.
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Vortigaunt
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5/22/2017
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I hope that there's a special option in The Cheery Man and Last Constable storyline if you have The Gentleman of Undisclosed Business or The Stiff-Backed Young Lady feast of the rose companions
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Siankan
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5/22/2017
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TheThirdPolice wrote:
Given the delay between updates and the stated difficulties in writing content for a tiny audience, I will eat my hat if Failbetter decides to add another round after the ones I mentioned. :P
The storylines, as we were all recently reminded, have been written for years. It is at least probable that they have also been storyboarded for the same period, with the number of updates and the content for each update sketched out years in advance. Even in the unlikely event they haven't been storyboarded, the quantity of remaining updates is almost certainly based on the length of the untold story, and I doubt that Failbetter's going to truncate something as important as the ambitions just to get them finished. That isn't exactly their modus operandi.
On the bright side, if you do have to eat your hat, at least that means it didn't eat you first.
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Skinnyman
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5/22/2017
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Robin Alexander wrote:
Those were 95% of the reasons why I just decided to take a hiatus with my main, as I was pretty frustrated, so this news couldn't have come at a better time!
So glad to hear this! I hope word gets around and some old players will come back or at least be more thrilled!
dov wrote:
There's a belief by a few players that this latest update round (i.e. the upcoming Light Fingers update and the 3 updates the other Ambitions have already received) is the penultimate one. i.e that after this upcoming Light Fingers update, all 4 Ambitions will be one update away from finished.
It does sound like a valid option/opinion; well, let's just wait a bit more!
Excluding Dilmun Club which is my favourite, the rest are great! The Cheery man, The Spirifer and The Pianist, The Cellars (specially after playing The Gift); I couldn't make up my mind on which I would like first!
Well, there is the Parabola Camp!
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