Erik Harrison
Posts: 51
12/20/2018
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It's been years since I played in Fallen London - a mobile app as getting ready to launch, many players still called it Echo Bazaar - and at the time I had exhausted the content available, while still feeling like I understood less of the setting than the average player (probably because I didn't frequent the forums as much).
I allowed Exceptional Friendship to pass, and eventually stopped playing, but have long wanted to return. However, I don't remember enough of the game - both story and mechanically - to step into my old character. He's in the middle of a number of stories I don't recall, and, lots of opportunity cards advancing Qualities I don't remember their use.
Two questions.
Considering the rejiggering of the early game that was going on when I left, and playing say 40 actions a day, how long before a new character might get back up to 150 in the 4 major Qualities? I'm wondering how much slog to get back to where I started, roughly.
I'm a little forlorn at losing my old character, especially with him having passed through a few events that I imagine have been pruned from the game proper - not to mention my friend the Rubbery Conspirator, a gift for bug reporting in the early StoryNexus days. But accounts are attached to my social media login - I can't figure out how to reset the FL character attached to my Facebook account. I suppose I could create a new account via email...
An in general: any thoughts for a New-Old player?
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phryne
Posts: 1351
12/20/2018
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Just an idea: leave your old character where he currently is. Start a new one and re-learn the game by playing that one. Once you remember enough you'll be able to continue playing the old character, too. 
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Accounts: Bag a Legend • Light Fingers • Heart's Desire • Nemesis • no ambition
Exceptional Stories, sorted by Season and by writer ― Favours & Renown Guide
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phryne
Posts: 1351
12/20/2018
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I consider myself a rather casual player who only logs in once or twice a day and I think I got to around 150 within a year easily. Maybe things were slower in the very early days, I don't know. It seems I started playing around the time you stopped.
Generally, I don't think Fallen London is a game that should be rushed, ever, in any way. Take your time. But if that's not your style, maybe it's not for you after all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Accounts: Bag a Legend • Light Fingers • Heart's Desire • Nemesis • no ambition
Exceptional Stories, sorted by Season and by writer ― Favours & Renown Guide
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Siankan
Posts: 1048
12/20/2018
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It depends on how often you play, of course, but it certainly shouldn't take years to get up to 150 unless you're playing very, very little. I've been playing for just over two years, and the only reason my Shadowy's at 134 (instead of the 200 of all my other stats) is that I've neglected it unconscionably. That said, without paying much attention to it I've gotten it up about 6 points this week.
So, I don't think time should worry you. That said, I agree with Phryne that Fallen London is in any case best sipped, not guzzled. It will take you months to run out of content, and by that point all of your stats are probably going to be getting up past 150 already. If you feel some stat is lagging, social actions are your best way to improve them quickly. (You're welcome to shoot them at me.)
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Siankan
Posts: 1048
12/20/2018
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I think Phryne has the right idea. Don't get rid of your old character (and perhaps, if you've got the time, spend the old character's actions once or twice a day on something profitable and innocuous). As you relearn those ropes, you can transfer back to your original, or keep both of them. Lots of people have secondary characters for doing things (such as seeking Mr. Eaten's name) that they don't want to do with their main character.
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Arcengal
Posts: 196
12/21/2018
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I started in March 2018 and I'm 150+ in all stats. If you're f2p it might take longer.
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https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Arcengal
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Erik Harrison
Posts: 51
12/26/2018
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Someone has sent me a social action of some kind (what are those? New things already!) but I can't seem to access it, presumably because I logged into the wrong account with it (I had a number of alts back in the day,and can't keep them straight!)
Regardless, thank you for the welcome back everyone
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Erik Harrison
Posts: 51
12/21/2018
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Thank you for the information! I was really using the stat levels as a proxy for "amount of content consumed" - I had, when I stopped, consumed every piece of content available in the game, and while I'm happy to "sip" I didn't want to wait a year before getting to a point where I was seeing new storylets.
I've signed up for a new account - tricky because I had accounts under all my social media already - and am working through now. Thank you for the heads up!
Is there anything you'd direct a new player to I should know about, as long as I'm here?
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silurica
Posts: 210
12/21/2018
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Getting most stats to 100 shouldn't take too long with training professions (which payment gives stat boost up until lv.70) and Making Your Name quest lines. The one exception to this is Shadowy as its MYN progression is kind of a mess, but you can boost it pretty quick using loitering. You can spend favours on faction cards to get some quick stat boosts as well.
That said, I wouldn't worry about it too much. I don't know how bad progression was in the old days, but nowadays the progress from 0 to 100 is smooth (again, Shadowy is the exception), I usually get to PoSI level within two or three months from regularly playing. Difficulty of getting from 100 to 200 varies between stats, but again, favours and social actions help if you want to get there fast. Personally, I never feel the need to rush it.
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 Meika Osborne, the Reckless Researcher
 Leonard West, the Scarlet Informant
 Chizuru Nishiooji, the Rueful Ex-Diplomat
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