Absintheuse
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5/30/2017
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As part of the ongoing reworks to Fallen London, we're also adjusting the properties of some equipment in the Expanded Inventory. Starting in June, we'll be increasing the amount Home Comforts and Transports improve/boost the Watchful, Dangerous, Shadowy and Persuasive stats. The more difficult something is to obtain, the greater the stat boost.
This will also give us room to create more varied and interesting items in the future. Indeed, the first Home Comfort unlocked as a Renown item will be available soon, to players who've established themselves amongst spies.
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Anchovies
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5/30/2017
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Hm. Since a Home Comfort can't be dragged around with you, I think it makes sense for most of their power to be in opportunity cards unlocked when a home comfort is equipped. You don't build a gymnasium for the sake of having one; you build it so you can use it, getting those sweet sweet Dangerous change points ten at a time. It could be good for Home Comforts to give a bit of a direct numbers increase, but I think it'd be weird for any of them to give more than +4 to any one core quality.
Midnighters get a Shrine to St. Joshua as their career item, which is currently the best Home Comfort by a long shot and which is received in lieu of the other professions' spectacularly powerful +12/+12 items. I think the addition of a Great Game-related Home Comfort, and a boost to Home Comfort bonuses in general, should be accompanied by a change to the Midnighter career item. Perhaps some Robes Dyed in Irrigo (description: "now, what were you wearing these for?") giving +12/+12/+1 Shadowy/Watchful/Dreaded? That would free up the Home Comfort slot for those greatest devotees of the Game, and the current best Shadowy clothing is the +6 Ratskin Suit.
tangent: I keep mistyping "List Writ in Gant" as "Wrist Lit in Gant". New glove-slot item confirmed?
edited by Anchovies on 5/30/2017
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PSGarak
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5/30/2017
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I continue to be hyped!
I am glad to hear that the Renown items are branching out to the Extended Inventory. I felt that was a missed opportunity before, and I see what you mean by the small stat range constraining what you can reasonably do.
Two questions: First, will this generally cause stat inflation, and if so, is that a concern? E.g. if it becomes possible to get another five points of Watchful across a few inventory slots, then Courier's Footprint will become less exclusive. That's not necessarily a bad thing, I'm just wondering if that's a concern.
Second, will existing Fate-locked items be improved as well?
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An Individual
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5/30/2017
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It will be interesting to see if this breaks the Mood requirement for Courier's Footprint. We only need 3 more points if fate is involved and 4 otherwise. If the Voluminous Library or White Glim Telescope are bumped up to +5 (or a new comfort is introduced with a +5 watchful bonus) that's all that would be necessary. Literally any watchful transportation introduced would also chip away at that number.
This isn't to say that this would make Courier's Footprint easy. Assuming we only just break that barrier you'd still need an Ubergoat and a full +15 Extraordinary Mind boost to get there. The moods probably remain the easier option. It would just introduce another approach for those who REALLY don't want to wait a few months to draw that next mood card.
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Tay1or
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6/2/2017
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Oh, wow! I'm SO happy! Just a couple days ago, I got to 19 SOtC with 268 plus a mood (didn't have items or time to go to 20), but I know I see that I'm at 270 today! Is that from the Library gaining 2? Oh wow--joy! It's not like it made it that much easier--I still need my Overgoat, but now I don't need an Ubergoat! I've got another mood card saved, gotta get my items stockpiled, etc, and 21 here I come!
ETA: no--I guess library was always 3. How'd I get 2 extra watchful points?
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Tay1or
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6/2/2017
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Ah, thanks! Whoever edited the Brief Guide to CF did it FAST! Woot woot! I feel a little sorry for those who did it before me with the old rules, but I did spend months getting my Overgoat. This just meant I didn't need two. I missed out on the boots at the last election and have to use the stocking for 3 footwear.
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PSGarak
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6/2/2017
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My Foreign Office reward now gives +4 Shadowy, instead of the +5 that it had yesterday. Is this still in flux?
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Anne Auclair
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6/2/2017
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PSGarak wrote:
My Foreign Office reward now gives +4 Shadowy, instead of the +5 that it had yesterday. Is this still in flux?
Apparently.
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Jeremy Avalon
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6/6/2017
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You can also consider getting a Shadowy Destiny, if it's in character. Backstage, for instance.
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Rostygold
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6/7/2017
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The Great Game Home Comfort does not appear to provide any BDR. Considering that the other Renown 40 items do, this is a dissatisfying exception.
P.S. Did anyone notice that Absintheuse may have made a pun in the second paragraph?
edited by Rostygold on 6/8/2017
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Optimatum
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6/7/2017
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Makes sense. The Shrine to St Joshua is only +1 Watchful better and we'll likely be getting more Renown Home Comforts that will make its Shadowy superiority similarly small. If the Renown Home Comforts could give BDR too, being a Midnighter would be even less useful.
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Saklad
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5/31/2017
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Blaine Davidson wrote:
I hope that a certain Bell given to me by a certain Master suddenly actually allows me to smite my enemies from afar as I see fit.
edited by Blaine Davidson on 5/30/2017
That would be either Persuasive or Dangerous, depending on whether you actually use it.
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Siankan
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6/1/2017
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IgnatuStone wrote:
Overgoat's not actually that hard once you set your mind to it. Even if you just log in 2 or 3 times a day using affair of the box you can have it within several months. Don't be afraid of it, the sooner you start the sooner you'll finish.
Oh, I'm not afraid of the grind; I've already got my way planned out all the way to Cider. I just don't want one. He's not the sort of companion I can see my character wanting to have smelling up the place.
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Dima Lazarev
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6/1/2017
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Extraordinary Drinks Cabinet and Terrifying Weathercock also give +6 to their respective stats.
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An Individual
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6/1/2017
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TeslaWalker wrote:
Does anyone know if the sacksmas objects are going to be boosted in a similar manner to the rest? Or affiliations for that matter?
My Sacksmas home comforts now give +3 to their respective stats (up from +1) in addition to the usual +1 BDR.
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Rostygold
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6/2/2017
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Now that the rework has been implemented, I would say this: this benefits those who had been forking out Fate more than those who had not.
P.S. At least the irrigo-infused shrine has had a huge buff though.
edited by Rostygold on 6/2/2017
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Blaine Davidson
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5/30/2017
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I hope that a certain Bell given to me by a certain Master suddenly actually allows me to smite my enemies from afar as I see fit.
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