Harlocke
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11/7/2017
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One of the Hallowmass rewards available this year was Feducci's boon, a single use item that automatically preserves your making waves for a single week. This cost 12 Feducci's favor, requiring a minimum of 2 confessions to obtain. You cannot save it for a future time the healer.
A way to preserve MW is a cool idea, and a long requested feature, but I have trouble seeing how Feducci's boon was useful. During Hallowmass most POSI players are frantically grinding and spending notability to earn confessions, which could make the boon useful if you're trying to reach 8 or 9 notability around your TTH, except that it would be entirely counterproductive to spend two confessions in order to make it easier to earn another confession.
It seems that Feducci's boon is only useful for players that happen to be pursuing high notability around Hallowmass, and also have spare confessions. Considering that 8/9 notability is hard for even advanced players to grind, spare confessions are unlikely unless you don't care about obtaining every Hallowmass reward and/or are willing to spend 30 fate just for the boon. Perhaps the intention is to help players that are willing to spend 30 fate rebuild their notability after Hallowmass? Or help people that bought Hallowmass rewards with fate, leaving their high notability intact, and also are willing to spend 30 fate to assist themselves in reaching 15 notability?
Does anyone here fall into those categories? Why did you purchase the boon?
I might have considered purchasing the boon if it could be saved for later, to either use when it's really needed, or kept as a keepsake. Or, if it could have been be purchased with something other than confessions, so it's actually useful for obtaining confessions. As is, it doesn't seem widely useful for most players.
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ExceptionallyDelicious
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11/8/2017
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Anne Auclair wrote:
Did anyone echo the boon? A display of influcence
"My dear," Feducci is practically purring. "It would be my pleasure." He leaps to his feet and shakes your hand. He clicks his fingers, and whispers to the servant who comes running. "Done!"
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PSGarak
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11/8/2017
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The Boon doesn't make sense as a reward, but I think it does make sense from a different perspective. It fits in Feducci's general theme of "#YOLO break tha rules!" which also covers several of the other rewards. We've never had a way in the game to reduce Criminal Record, but there it was... I wouldn't be entirely surprised if that never occurs again, ever. The Lance is somewhat form-breaking, just because of the stats. So alongside of those is a reward that breaks another rule that's never been broken, Time the Healer. Not because it's good or useful, but just to do it.
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gronostaj
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11/8/2017
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ExceptionallyDelicious wrote:
Feducci is practically purring.
worth it just for the mental image of a purring mummy
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alekth
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11/7/2017
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I would have used it on my Seeker alt if she was in a bind going for the 11->12 Notability normally needed for St. Destin's candle (it's a pretty heavy grind as she has rather low BRD). I mainly bought certificates with the free confessions and I didn't spend any notability on obtaining more.
Mostly though the boon seems useless, Time the Healer is a well expected moment for anyone who's been playing for more than a few weeks, so timing around it isn't that hard. Even if I could have kept it for a future week, I doubt I would have really needed it.
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Barse
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11/7/2017
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I used it just for curiosity's sake, and yes it's pretty useless. It'd be only situationally useful even if it was available year-round, and being only available for a 2-week period meant that the number of people for whom it would be a life-saving grind-shortener was even smaller.
The quality was kinda cool, but Feducci didn't say anything fun upon conferring the boon, and TtH takes the quality away with no souvenir to remember its passing. Ah, well.
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Estelle Knoht
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11/7/2017
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It was a little counter-intuitive to be buying something to preserve Making Waves temporarily while everyone around is doing the opposite.
A longer version that last a month for a higher cost, perhaps?
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Harlocke
Posts: 506
11/7/2017
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Estelle Knoht wrote:
It was a little counter-intuitive to be buying something to preserve Making Waves temporarily while everyone around is doing the opposite.
A longer version that last a month for a higher cost, perhaps?
I think notability decline is an incentive to keep playing the game on at least a weekly basis, so I'm not sure a long-term method of preserving notability would fly.
Some other cost would make sense though. Something expensive, but a price that also provides flexibility in when to use it. For example, if you could buy Feducci's boon by spending a Favorable Circumstance, that would be perfectly fine. You could spend your notability in order to assist yourself in reaching higher levels of notability later on, or purchase it with fate when necessary.
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Anne Auclair
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11/8/2017
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Did anyone echo the boon?
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Kaijyuu
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11/8/2017
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The reasons I think it would be a good fate purchase is:
1) Useful if that time of the week is fast approaching and you didn't plan well/had bad luck.
2) Purchaseable with fate means available when you need it, instead of at holidays or on random cards.
3) Will probably be used a decent bit by new POSIs, making FBG some decent money.
I might also suggest extending it to Notability loss; while under the effect, your notability will not drop, even if you lack the normally necessary Making Waves. This will give some use to advanced players who forgot/didn't have time to play that week. Downside though is that it might be seen as a less pleasant form of monetization to those that hate maintaining notability.
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Dudebro Pyro
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11/8/2017
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Kaijyuu wrote:
those that hate maintaining notability.
I'd argue that even at Notability 15, you only need 92CP to go from 7MW (after TtH) back to 15, for which there are a variety of grinds. It should normally take less than half a day of playing (I think around 66 actions, using the slow method of side-conversions - I say slow because there's probably ways to optimise around the absinthe desert, not to mention the possibility of using dinners or Dante's Grill etc.). This is comparable to most menace areas - yet nobody is complaining about the fate options to fast-track out of there. Finally, there are few reasons to ever maintain Notability 15, other than roleplaying, so those that really hate Notability and MW absolutely don't have to do so (unlike with menace areas, where if you accidentally land there you have no choice but to grind out).
Tl;dr: I agree with you and moreover believe that it would be a useful, fair and balanced way to spend Fate.
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