genesis
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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.
I am pretty sure I've seen something even more explicit than this but while I am looking for it this is definitely pointing in that direction:
Chris Gardiner wrote:
I'm working on Hallowmas next, then I think the Dadd Wing. So it'll be a few weeks before the next ambition update (which should be Nemesis).
I should mention that the stories for the ambition updates are all planned out, and the next (probably final!) stages are very thoroughly outlined too.
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Akernis
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5/22/2017
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This is amazing! The Dilmun Club and the Empress' Court are two of my very favourite stories and I I am thrilled to see them continued. It is also a lovely coincidence that I recently tried a new ambition and just finished the available part of Light Fingers. It is going to be really exciting to see what happens next 
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crazyroosterman
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5/22/2017
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Akernis wrote:
This is amazing! The Dilmun Club and the Empress' Court are two of my very favorite stories and I I am thrilled to see them continued. It is also a lovely coincidence that I recently tried a new ambition and just finished the available part of Light Fingers. It is going to be really exciting to see what happens next indeed the dilmun club and light fingers are 2 story's i was hoping would get worked on in this
mysterious update (:
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dov
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5/22/2017
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genesis wrote:
I am pretty sure I've seen something even more explicit than this but while I am looking for it this is definitely pointing in that direction:
Chris Gardiner wrote:
I should mention that the stories for the ambition updates are all planned out, and the next (probably final!) stages are very thoroughly outlined too.
Thanks!
This is definitely the sort of quote I was looking for, though it's not 100% definitive as it refers to "next stages" (plural). This could be read as one more stage per Ambition (thus multiple stages overall), or an undefined number of stages per Ambition (thus multiple stages for each).
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PSGarak
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5/22/2017
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The hype train is departing Moloch Station, and I have payed the fare and am on board.
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BlabberingMat
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5/22/2017
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Yaaaaaaaaaay!
(My very articulate expression of excitement)
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menaulon
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5/22/2017
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I would like to add my voice to the chorus of hype and excitement: Yaaaaaaaaaay!
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Lady Sapho Byron
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5/22/2017
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Absintheuse wrote:
The team's priorities include ... A Return to the Empress' Court.
This is both wonderful and jaw-droppingly unexpected. After all of the costume "malfunctions" during the first (and only) staging of my opera, I did not expect to ever be able to return!
edited by Lady Sapho Byron on 5/22/2017
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Blaine Davidson
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5/22/2017
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My question is, what happens when the Ambitions are finally finished?
Do we get a chance to experience another one? Will new Ambitions be created? These are massive storylines that each of us have relentlessly pursued and without a replacement London would suddenly feel a bit more empty.
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suinicide
Posts: 2409
5/22/2017
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Blaine Davidson wrote:
My question is, what happens when the Ambitions are finally finished?
Do we get a chance to experience another one? Will new Ambitions be created? These are massive storylines that each of us have relentlessly pursued and without a replacement London would suddenly feel a bit more empty.
A while back, I think it was when they announced ambitious should be finished in 2012 (ha), they said they had a plan for what came next.
Personally, I hope we can play the other ambitions and see whatever they planned.
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VioletBandit
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5/22/2017
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Joining the chorus of excitment, especially for the Dilmun Club.
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Anne Auclair
Posts: 2215
5/23/2017
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who will run for mayor of Fallen London this year, we wonder? Rumour has it we'll be seeing our first bandaged candidate...
So, sounds like Feducci or one of the Mercies?
I'm wracking my brain trying to come up with another notable Tomb Colonist and I'm not having much luck.
Anyway, I'm excited by all the planned updates, particularly the return to the Empresses' court and the next chapter of the Dilmun Club.
edited by Anne Auclair on 5/23/2017
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Optimatum
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5/23/2017
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There's the Once-Dashing Smuggler.
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Anne Auclair
Posts: 2215
5/23/2017
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Optimatum wrote:
There's the Once-Dashing Smuggler.
Oh yeah, I forgot about him!
Oh dear, if he runs on a disagreeable platform then my character is going to be so conflicted. She really likes him.
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Blaine Davidson
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5/23/2017
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suinicide wrote:
Blaine Davidson wrote:
My question is, what happens when the Ambitions are finally finished?
Do we get a chance to experience another one? Will new Ambitions be created? These are massive storylines that each of us have relentlessly pursued and without a replacement London would suddenly feel a bit more empty.
A while back, I think it was when they announced ambitious should be finished in 2012 (ha), they said they had a plan for what came next.
Personally, I hope we can play the other ambitions and see whatever they planned.
I would hope that we could try the other ambitions, but I'm not so secretly hoping for a new set of Ambitions to be tempted with.
Our current Ambitions are Shadowy/Persuasive (Light Fingers), Watchful/Persuasive (Heart's Desire), Watchful/Dangerous (Nemesis!), and Dangerous/Watchful (Bag a Legend).
The Watchful quality has dominated 3/4 of the Ambitions and Shadowy has been left by the wayside.
So to see Ambitions using other quality combinations would be a lot of fun. And even though Watchful has been used 3 times already I would be very interested in a Watchful/Shadowy Ambition.
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dov
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5/23/2017
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Blaine Davidson wrote:
I would hope that we could try the other ambitions
That might not be easy to do, because:
- The Ambitions are design as a character defining passion. They contradict each other in that they each state an explicit reason for our character to come to the Neath in the first place.
- The Ambitions are designed to progress with the character. At first, there's hardly any challenge to make it accessible for new characters. Then the challenges increase, so that your character has to grow a bit and collect resources before pursuing the Ambition further. Opening the rest of the Ambitions for end-game characters who completed theirs would ruin the designed pacing of playing it, since an advanced character can blaze through 90% of the content.
All solvable, of course, but it will require re-design of major elements.
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Anne Auclair
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5/23/2017
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dov wrote:
Blaine Davidson wrote:
I would hope that we could try the other ambitions
That might not be easy to do, because:
- The Ambitions are design as a character defining passion. They contradict each other in that they each state an explicit reason for our character to come to the Neath in the first place.
- The Ambitions are designed to progress with the character. At first, there's hardly any challenge to make it accessible for new characters. Then the challenges increase, so that your character has to grow a bit and collect resources before pursuing the Ambition further. Opening the rest of the Ambitions for end-game characters who completed theirs would ruin the designed pacing of playing it, since an advanced character can blaze through 90% of the content.
All solvable, of course, but it will require re-design of major elements.
Could you refresh my memory on the reasons each Ambition gives for coming to the Neath? I know what mine does, but it's been a long time since I've read about the others?
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dov
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5/23/2017
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Anne Auclair wrote:
Could you refresh my memory on the reasons each Ambition gives for coming to the Neath? I know what mine does, but it's been a long time since I've read about the others?
Each of them takes unexpected twists and turns, but the original premise of each is:
- Nemesis: "Someone you loved is dead. You swore you'd scour the world for the killer. Your search brought you under the world."
- Light Fingers: "Before you came down here, you heard through a contact here that she had a line on a diamond 'the size of a cow'."
- Heart's Desire: "They say that once every nine years there's a card game where you can gamble your soul and win your heart's desire. That sounds like tremendous fun."
- Bag a Legend: You hear hushed rumours of a "Vake" from other monster hunters and decide to investigate and hunt said creature yourself. Apparently, there's "a standing reward of four million Echoes".
So, Bag a Legend does not necessarily deal with your reason for coming to the Neath in the first place.
But Nemesis and Light Fingers certainly do, and for Heart's Desire it's possible but not a certainty.
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Anne Auclair
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5/23/2017
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dov wrote:
Each of them takes unexpected twists and turns...
Not Heart's Desire. That story is about a card game, exactly as advertised.
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Optimatum
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5/23/2017
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dov wrote:
- Bag a Legend: You hear hushed rumours of a "Vake" from other monster hunters and decide to investigate and hunt said creature yourself. Apparently, there's "a standing reward of four million Echoes".
I will be very disappointed if the final Bag a Legend! update comes out and I end up getting cheated out of my 25 Firkins of Hesperidean Cider.
edited by Optimatum on 5/23/2017
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