Sharonhorste
Posts: 8
9/27/2013
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I've just been able to start an expedition, and even the cheapest ones seem prohibitively expensive, especially if you fail. What are some good ways to drum up the funds to buy supplies?
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lady ciel
Posts: 2548
9/27/2013
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Tommy Wi - that is very high level I doubt if someone who has only just been able to access Expeditions in the Forgotten Quarter will be stat capped on shadowy and have the gear to raise it into the 200's.
By the way a useful tip for people who are at that level is not to sell them but to use the clues to buy flawed diamonds in the Bazaar Sidestreets.
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Sorry RL means I am not a very active player at the moment. No social actions unless you are prepared to wait and definitely no sparring or other mult-action things.
No Calling Cards or boxed cats please. Will take dupes on the affluent photographers. Other social invitations welcome. Parabolan Kittens usually available, send me an in-game social action saying you want one and I will get one to you as soon as possible.
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Mikarissa
Posts: 60
11/18/2013
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This seems like the most appropriate place, I suppose... I've uncovered two Eyeless Skulls in my recent expedition, and, since I am already quite familiar with the Cave of Nadir, they are pretty useless to me. Rather annoying, actually, cluttering my hand with those nasty undiscardable cards... So, does anyone require a skull or two? Fell free to ask, and no need for any payback, by the way 
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Elene
Posts: 184
12/13/2013
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If you get into the university, improving your connection with Benthenic gives you a solid 60 whispered secrets per action and that option is available most of the term. The university also provides a nightmare reduction action thats available nearly the entire term and which also gives out primordial shrieks (enjoying the pace of the university or something), thus if you are grinding up materials for the nadir or going on expeditions for skulls, that may be an advisable option.
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Snowskeeper
Posts: 575
12/14/2013
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Worth noting that completing an Expedition doesn't get rid of excess supplies. If you can wait, it might be worth it to max out the amount of supplies you can get at 100, then dig in from there. Just so that you don't fail because you don't have enough.
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S.F., a midnight midnighter and invisible eminence. Impossible to locate them, personally, but there are dead drops and agents.
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empirimancer
Posts: 99
12/16/2013
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LukeMcMillan wrote:
I think the best grinding-for-the-sake-of-expeditions is getting jade from the unfinished business in Watchmaker's Hill (240 jade for 2 actions, meaning 120 per action) and convert them in whispered secrets from the Tiger Keeper. But you need to be POSI for that.
Just to add some math, this converting-to-secrets method produces 132 secrets per action and raises dangerous (from Unfinished Business). This is superior to the equivalent Unfinished Business methods for amber (higher payout but luck-based*) or rostygold (lower payout). It is also superior to acquiring amber from working for Jasper and Frank at Mahogany hall which ends up producing 123.2 secrets per action.
*Not being too clear about what "A matter of luck, pretty good odds" means in terms of probability (is that 0.75? 0.66?), I can't provide a firm estimate on that.
My own perspective is that you're gonna need the skull, so if you can't beg/borrow/steal one off someone here, you might as well get your secrets from Seeking Curios in Forgotten Quarter while looking for a skull to pop up. I also think the timesink of trying to get 6 skulls is ridiculous compared to the cost of buying the cinder outright with echos or connections, so just stop when you get the one skull and do something more productive.
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Parelle
Posts: 1084
5/18/2016
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sthanatos wrote:
I don't have enough Dock Renown yet to use that option.
If you don't yet have enough Docks Reknown, you can use the Carnival for the first few levels (up to 5). Note that each action gives you 1 Favour each time, so you'll want to use some of the Favours in some fashion (Calling in Favours at Wolfstack Docks is an option). You then can use the Tankard to convert extra Favours to Reknown - if you ended the Carnival sequence with 7 of them, that should help you get to Level 6.
Your situation with the Whispered Hints is odd, but note that it uses 200 at a time: even if you have 'several thousand' it doesn't take that many to go through that many of them.
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Parelle, Lady Joseph Marlen. The Singular Librarian. A Midnighter, a Player of the Marvelous.
pages from a dusty bookshop: a badly updated FL changelog | Useful Guidance and Explanations
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