Myke Harryson
Posts: 309
5/7/2012
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I've got a question for those at cap or nearly there: Are you guys flooded with Second Chance item like I was? I had over 200 Insights, and at least 60 of the others, without really trying. Only reason I don't any more is because of my Search of a certain Name.
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50,000 souls - 12/31/14
3,000,000 souls 10/25/16 - 100% of goal
Connection to Hell: 15
22 souls, Connection to Hell 611, 10,000,000 brass - 1/16/17
1/7/19 - The G.O.A.T. Heptagoat is born admist a storm of Engimas
1/31/19 - The G.O.A.T. is taught the Seven-Fold knock over a snifter of Cider after my voyage NORTH
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travellersside
Posts: 288
5/7/2012
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Pretty much, yes - over 200 Insights, over 100 Smiles and a small but respectable number of the other two. Not only are they no use nowadays, but they're actually a liability, since if I'm going to fail any stat challenge, it's because I deliberately lowered my stats in order to fail. The second chance actually makes things worse, since I'm less likely to get my desired result.
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Little The
Posts: 700
5/7/2012
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Same here. I have over 100 in all four, and this is after getting them destroyed from SMEN! Everything's straightforward for me now, so I don't really have a use for them.
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Nigel Overstreet
Posts: 1220
5/7/2012
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Better to have them and not need them. They come in handy while playing chess on a slow boat.
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Cheeseyx
Posts: 46
5/7/2012
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Is there some more-effective source for these later on? I always find myself running out of sudden insights (Just got into the College, so between that and dealing with nightmares, they just head down into oblivion)
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RageBox Alice
Posts: 112
5/7/2012
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If you come across a Commotion in the Square of Lofty Words, you can gift those second chances to another person of your choosing.
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Myke Harryson
Posts: 309
5/7/2012
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Cheese: Just keep playing through the University and you'll get piles of them. Only other way is to the get a red border card about having tea with some daughter.
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Gained immortality on a throne of nevercold brass
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Apollo~Fireweaver
50,000 souls - 12/31/14
3,000,000 souls 10/25/16 - 100% of goal
Connection to Hell: 15
22 souls, Connection to Hell 611, 10,000,000 brass - 1/16/17
1/7/19 - The G.O.A.T. Heptagoat is born admist a storm of Engimas
1/31/19 - The G.O.A.T. is taught the Seven-Fold knock over a snifter of Cider after my voyage NORTH
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Urthdigger
Posts: 939
5/8/2012
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I find playing chess with folks to be a fast way to earn them 
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Looking for second chances to maximize your loot output from those troublesome storylets? Check out our handy gang of volunteers in this thread, or even volunteer yourself!
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Diptych
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Posts: 3493
5/8/2012
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Let's see... 25 attack plans, 143 lessons, 337 insights, 535 smiles, 154 notes and 10 anticandles. I've asked this before, but does anyone out there still have a Listening Candle?
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Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron.
Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Myke Harryson
Posts: 309
5/8/2012
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10 anticandles? I haven't run across those before. How did you get them?
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Gained immortality on a throne of nevercold brass
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Apollo~Fireweaver
50,000 souls - 12/31/14
3,000,000 souls 10/25/16 - 100% of goal
Connection to Hell: 15
22 souls, Connection to Hell 611, 10,000,000 brass - 1/16/17
1/7/19 - The G.O.A.T. Heptagoat is born admist a storm of Engimas
1/31/19 - The G.O.A.T. is taught the Seven-Fold knock over a snifter of Cider after my voyage NORTH
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Lawrence Growe
Posts: 96
5/8/2012
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New Newgate, most likely. Am I correct?
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Diptych
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Posts: 3493
5/8/2012
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The Museum of Mistakes, in this case.
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Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Jon Erikson
Posts: 37
5/8/2012
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If you can raise stats then they're useful for taking Almost Impossible challenges to boost your stats and then using the Second Chance to do an easier level.
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Jon~Erikson
No stabby stuff please; social grinding and spare Overgoats welcome, apparently having just the one is out of fashion...
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Cheeseyx
Posts: 46
5/8/2012
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spiralx wrote:
If you can raise stats then they're useful for taking Almost Impossible challenges to boost your stats and then using the Second Chance to do an easier level.
I've found it uses the action on your first try anyway, just doesn't update the candle. Has this been fixed?
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Rupho Schartenhauer
Posts: 787
5/9/2012
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Cheeseyx wrote:
spiralx wrote:
If you can raise stats then they're useful for taking Almost Impossible challenges to boost your stats and then using the Second Chance to do an easier level.
I've found it uses the action on your first try anyway, just doesn't update the candle. Has this been fixed?
This is not an error, it's been changed a while ago. Now you have to use your second chance for the same option you tried first.
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Cortez the Killer has killed a Master, definitely.
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amaresu
Posts: 209
5/10/2012
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I wish there was a way to sell second chances. Or trade them in to a Relicker or something. I don't even like them when they raise the stat caps these days because it makes me cap again too quickly.
And, as stated, they make it really frustrating when I'm trying to fail a challenge. It's amazing how many times you can succeed at an almost impossible task when you get two chances at it every time.
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streetfelineblue
Posts: 1459
5/11/2012
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amaresu wrote:
I wish there was a way to sell second chances. Or trade them in to a Relicker or something. I don't even like them when they raise the stat caps these days because it makes me cap again too quickly.
And, as stated, they make it really frustrating when I'm trying to fail a challenge. It's amazing how many times you can succeed at an almost impossible task when you get two chances at it every time.
Well, there's a bit of a long way to get rid of them: just find someplace with a repeatable action not bearing ill results on a failure (I think the grinding actions in Polythreme are all of this kind), and just camp there at Almost Impossible difficulty until you're depleted.
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