Diptych
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8/31/2017
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Smart money's on Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica, respectively.
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Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron.
Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Tintinnabulum
Posts: 61
9/1/2017
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Is it possible to give your ship a name?
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https://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/Tintinnabulum
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Amalgamate
Posts: 435
9/1/2017
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Only with Fate, using the "Record the Name of your Ship or Spouse" storylet in the Bazaar Sidestreets.
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http://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/amalgamate
Social invitations of all kinds welcome, especially games of chess and deadly sparring!
Also happy to help with nightmares, send sips of Cider, and plant battle.
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Arandia
Posts: 127
9/1/2017
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Is there a better way (in terms of EPA) for grinding Correspondence Plaques than via Primordial Shrieks from Unfinished Business in Ladybones Road?
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Arandia van Graeff, Midnighter and crazy cat lady: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Arandia
Horace Glendower, a Seeker: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Horace%20Glendower
Looking for plant battles!
Always happy to partake in social actions. No Affluent Photographer, no chess and no coffee invitations, please!
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John Moose
Posts: 276
9/1/2017
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I'm moderately sure stealing journals of infamy in Flit (Thefts of particular character) and then sideconverting them is the optimal method. Besides doing the Affaif of the Box which gives 6 plaques per cycle, being a great grind EPA-wise but making you wait quite a while before you reach your plaque-goals.
edited by John Moose on 9/1/2017
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Aniline
Posts: 144
9/1/2017
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John Moose wrote:
I'm moderately sure stealing journals of infamy in Flit (Thefts of particular character) and then sideconverting them is the optimal method.
Yes, it's much better than any normal upconverting and as good as A Presumptuous Little Opportunity, provided you have a gang of hoodlums for casing gain and don't fail. The breakeven is at about 165 Shadowy: lower than that, and it's better to grind Clues or Jade and upconvert (provided the asterisked suspiciously good UB results on the wiki are correct).
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Melantha Prescott, the Suspicious Statistician. "3% failure chances crop up nine times out of ten."
Francesca Ayers-Kernighan, bat-hunter, cat-whisperer
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xKiv
Posts: 846
9/1/2017
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Arandia wrote:
Is there a better way (in terms of EPA) for grinding Correspondence Plaques than via Primordial Shrieks from Unfinished Business in Ladybones Road?
Breed hyaenas (fungus+prayer) and mass upconvert the maniac prayers. This assumes you can 100% the "find the way yourself", and either have cheap way to get to 5 nightmares or are converting in large bulk. It's only 6% better than JoI thefts + sideconversion.
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https://www.fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/xKiv - a witchful, percussive, dangermous and shadowry scholar of coexplodence, hopsidirean, and walker of fallen kitties.
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Kaijyuu
Posts: 1047
9/1/2017
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Doing Affair of the Box may be more efficient, depending on what your standard grind is. For many their standard grind IS Affair of the Box, so plaques are essentially free with patience.
For a Spirifer, each plaque obtained by AotB "costs" ~25 pence. In other words, the 14 actions spent for a single cycle nets you 1.54 less echoes than would have been obtained by the spirifer grind and 6 plaques. This may work out to be less pricey than more direct methods of obtaining plaques, though certainly will take longer.
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Be of good cheer. Our contacts have assured us that your sins are forgiven.
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Dudebro Pyro
Posts: 755
9/1/2017
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This is making me wonder: what about Aeolian Screams? I've been taking the lazy route of upconverting plaques, but I'm wondering whether there's a better way - especially with the new favour cost.
Are any of the accessible rare successes particularly worth it?
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Dudebro Pyro, eccentric scholar
Spare Starveling Kitties always welcome. I collect them.
For that matter, send me your unwanted cat boxes too.
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Anchovies
Posts: 421
9/1/2017
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"A tradition developed after the fall" (Ladybones UB) pays out in Greyfields 1882 with a rare success for an Aeolian Scream. From my limited personal experience it seems to be a 5-10% chance, and it's worth building up a stock of Greyfields 1882 for the Bohemians faction card.
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Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him.
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Lionel Anchovies. Character on indefinite hiatus.
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navchaa
Posts: 561
9/2/2017
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What happens when you serve up dinner with a John the Baptist head?
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Paramount Presence (London's Marrow 2, London's Nerves 2, London’s Sinew 3, London’s Blood 3) and mercenary Notary
Married to Myrto :: Exchanging Surprise Packages with anyone interested :: Exchanging cat boxes with Kitty Rambunctious
http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/navchaa
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Tintinnabulum
Posts: 61
9/2/2017
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Amalgamate wrote:
Only with Fate, using the "Record the Name of your Ship or Spouse" storylet in the Bazaar Sidestreets.
Oh, right, of course. I forgot about that option there. Thanks.
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Aniline
Posts: 144
9/2/2017
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The University, what should I definitely do before I get kicked out? It's a fun place but I'd outgrown it grinding FWoA and want to progress the story.
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Melantha Prescott, the Suspicious Statistician. "3% failure chances crop up nine times out of ten."
Francesca Ayers-Kernighan, bat-hunter, cat-whisperer
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Anchovies
Posts: 421
9/2/2017
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Aniline wrote:
The University, what should I definitely do before I get kicked out? It's a fun place but I'd outgrown it grinding FWoA and want to progress the story. Investigations in the University is useful for the first two stages of the Wars of Illusion: "The Heights of Chicanery" and "Bats and Cats", both in the Flit. The progress options in THoC and BaC give up to +3 cp per action, while university investigations can provide +4 cp and £1.06 per action. Once the Wars of Illusion leave the Flit, you can finish up the university investigations without losing anything; I don't believe I've used the Investigating... quality since completing that storyline, except in Polythreme.
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Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him.
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Lionel Anchovies. Character on indefinite hiatus.
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Kaijyuu
Posts: 1047
9/2/2017
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I'd stay in the University forever. There aren't any particularly cool things past it, unless you really like visiting some obscure islands at zee.
The current best grind in the game requires staying at the University, too. It's as follows:
- Some combination of http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Interview_the_Department_of_staff and http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Conduct_forensic_analyses to get 5 Investigating levels.
- http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Raid_a_Message-drop to cash in Investigating.
- http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/A_bag_of_low-quality_diamonds to turn your Cryptic Clues into diamonds at a profit.
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Waterpls
Posts: 324
9/2/2017
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Turning C.Clues to diamonds is only 1.4 EpA. What is the point?
Update.
With rare success:
1% - 1.52 EpA
2% - 1.64 EpA
3% - 1.77 EpA
What is the % of Rare Success?
edited by Waterpls on 9/2/2017
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Long grinds: Heptagoat 100/180; Cider Done; Correspondence 21/21; Paramount 4/4.
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navchaa
Posts: 561
9/2/2017
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Waterpls wrote:
Turning C.Clues to diamonds is only 1.4 EpA. What is the point?
Update.
With rare success:
1% - 1.52 EpA
2% - 1.64 EpA
3% - 1.77 EpA
What is the % of Rare Success?
edited by Waterpls on 9/2/2017
I think it's around 5%, which makes it a decent EPA.
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Paramount Presence (London's Marrow 2, London's Nerves 2, London’s Sinew 3, London’s Blood 3) and mercenary Notary
Married to Myrto :: Exchanging Surprise Packages with anyone interested :: Exchanging cat boxes with Kitty Rambunctious
http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/navchaa
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dov
Posts: 2580
9/2/2017
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It indeed seems to be 5%.
(at least, in my 1471 recorded attempts I've got the rare success 5.44%).
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dov
Posts: 2580
9/2/2017
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navchaa wrote:
What happens when you serve up dinner with a John the Baptist head?
If they accept (and they don't have to), they are treated to the most gruesome text in all Fallen London (and that includes Jack-of-Smiles and Seeking) as they slowly eat and enjoy all parts of the head.
It really should come with a warning.
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Waterpls
Posts: 324
9/2/2017
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Wow, with 5% it is 2.02 EpA. Outstanding.
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Long grinds: Heptagoat 100/180; Cider Done; Correspondence 21/21; Paramount 4/4.
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