Here you can speculate on the game’s plot, discuss its characters, and compare notes with other players.
A sure thing? Yeah right!
Ephemerayla
Posts: 11
3/1/2012
|
I'm currently recovering from wounds inflicted during my latest round of Hunting Dangerous Prey, and all this time spent in bed convalescing has me thinking. The challenge is "A matter of luck: a sure thing. Or is it?" Well, it seems to me to be far from a sure thing. For example, of the ten actions I just spent recovering, three of them were unlucky results. (And a not a single rare result, which is unfortunate as my nightmares are getting a bit out of hand as well.) This is fairly typical of this particular challenge, in my experience: about 30% failure rate. Still good odds, of course, especially as it costs nothing but an action-- but hardly "a sure thing."
Have you had similar experiences with this challenge? What about other "sure things"? As I recall, back when I was flirting with those oh-so-charming devils, the conversation about Extraction was a sure thing... and I was able to have it about twenty times before I finally hit the "unlucky" result.
--
If my heart could beat, it would break my chest.
|
|
|
0
link
|
Passionario
Posts: 777
3/1/2012
|
Ephemerayla wrote:
Have you had similar experiences with this challenge? What about other "sure things"? As I recall, back when I was flirting with those oh-so-charming devils, the conversation about Extraction was a sure thing... and I was able to have it about twenty times before I finally hit the "unlucky" result.
I failed that one on the very first attempt.
--
Passionario: Profile, Story, Ending
Passion: Profile, Appearance
|
|
|
+1
link
|
Lily Fox
Posts: 346
3/5/2012
|
As a foreign scholar once said, "That is why they have been dubbed 'Random Events', not 'Statistically Probable Events'."
--
@LilyLayer4
Fallen London character: Lilith B.
Author of Maelstrom - Play - Discuss
Author of City of Phire - Play - Discuss
|
|
|
+1
link
|
Freemage
Posts: 13
3/7/2012
|
And now we've got an entire bloody story arc that's nothing but random events, and if you fail one, you go back to the beginning.... Hell with it--I'm gonna bulk up on the first step, then convert as many as I can to the second, and so on. Once I complete the storyline, anything left over will simply be burned on the 'take the loot and run' option they keep giving me for all of the stages.
(If you're not aware of the new storyline, check out the announcement, and then click on your Tales of Terror to get started. Having just gone to a play adapted from Lovecraft's Mountains of Madness, I'm digging this too much to bail just because I'm frustrated at the all-luck sequence.)
|
|
|
+1
link
|