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Whirring Contraptions and Newspapers
Anchovies
Posts: 421
7/30/2017
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A Whirring Contraption costs 44 actions. Three loops through the War of Assassins, Business in Wilmot's End, or Seeking a Missing Woman carousels to raise Dramatic Tension, then one more Missing Woman loop to cash it in.
A Whirring Contraption costs 44 actions.
Using the Contraption in Doubt Street, running through the Hours Before the Deadline, and publishing a newspaper, costs 14 actions. For 140 Journals of Infamy, that's £70 in 58 actions, for £1.21pa.
But why, oh why is running a newspaper 75% grinding for a Contraption and only 25% actually running a newspaper!?
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Nigel Overstreet
Posts: 1220
7/31/2017
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I used to be involved in the day to day of a mess of small town newspapers.
I assure you, the percentage of my day that had to do with running a newspaper was far less than 25%
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Anne Auclair
Posts: 2215
7/31/2017
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Am I the only one who regularly sponsors trading expeditions to the farthest reaches of the zee? For five actions, ten echoes and 2000 drops of Prisoners Honey you get either a contraption or enough scarabs to build one. I much prefer this to skulking around Wilmot's End, stealing Bavarian devices.
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Anne Auclair
Posts: 2215
7/31/2017
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Oh, I have over a thousand memories of light (I get it by trading compromising documents). The scarabs remain scarabs.
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Saklad
Posts: 528
7/31/2017
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To be fair, it’s a newspaper. It’s not really supposed to be that profitable.
I actually find the Journals of Infamy quite useful, though, since it seems like one of the best sources of items at that tier. You can cross-convert those to a bunch of other things.
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Amélie Vaincœur
Posts: 85
7/30/2017
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Wilmot's End is terrible. I usually prefer to grind Beeswax in Ladybones Road, convert to Scarabs/MoL and buy my Contraptions in the Side-Streets.
Obviously, you can't do this if you don't want to advance the LoN. Tough luck ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 
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