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An Arduous Undertaking
Malarthi
Posts: 14
5/3/2012
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This day I have begun the single longest undertaking a person can take. Hesperidean Cider.
Tell me, has anyone started upon this course? How far did they get?
I plan to find the most unique of souls in those young writers called by the Mottled Men, and harvest them for myself. It is far better that someone who understands the value of these poor, doomed people make some use of them than they disappear forever. Any further advice, or material aid would be much appreciated, though I hope to have the stamina to last all the way through without, if needbe.
Edit: Some quick numbers massaging says this should take roughly 68500 actions using roughly 24000 Tales of Terror, plus the input needed to get all the consumed resources (which may come out to quite a time investment in and of itself). Can someone sanity check this?
Second Edit: As I have the current last post, I'll update here instead, with the information that I now have 720 Sense of Deja Vu, roughly half the amount needed for an attempt at getting an overgoat (which hilariously seems to be 1337). Only 17280 to go! (Actually, less as I already have three of the coruscating souls out of the 512 required, saving me roughly 140 Tales of Terror plus conversions actions and items that go with them.)
Third Edit: I'm closing in on 1800 Sense of Deja Vu, 1/10 the total goal. When I reach that milestone I will do a run of conversions all the way to Coruscating Souls, posting the data here as well as providing it to Vyrlokar for inclusion in his spreadsheet tracking percentages of success for each portion of the story.
edited by Malarthi on 6/11/2012
edited by Malarthi on 8/17/2012
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Nigel Overstreet
Posts: 1220
6/12/2012
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It is unlikely that gaining Scarabs or Memories of Light will become any easier, for doing so would greatly alter the economics of Doubt Street. I suspect converting your Scarabs to Memories in bulk is the best option.
You are also presuming a 50% success rate on conversion of Mourning Candles. While this may be accurate at larger numbers, unfortunately your pool is simply too small to guarantee that level of success. You should allow for greater variance should your luck be poor.
Your numbers are not entirely unsound. What you are attempting to do is a daunting task that will likely take about three years of pure grinding. Given that you will surely be pursuing other content when it is released, this is likely to be longer. If you insist on pursuing this there are a few things you should consider. Firstly, that others have been playing this game for upwards of three years and so may have a bit of a start on you in terms of Echo grinding so you may not be the first non-developer to get Hesperidian Cider. Secondly, that there may be another way to garner Hesperidian Cider during later content. Thirdly, Hesperidan Cider may not do anything at all. It may have no content associated with it and may just be a thing to put on your mantelpiece. And you won't even be the only one with it; merely the only non-developer with it. And lastly, that you may find after a year or so of pure button pushing that your resolve will waver and this really fun, entertaining and engaging game has become little more than a massive time suck you grow to hate.
You have been warned. Good luck.
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