Dave
Posts: 215
9/20/2012
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Nigel Overstreet wrote:
Dave wrote:
Well, I've done it: the second-most absurd time sink I could manage (next to cider, naturally.) I now have:
Defender of Truth 10 - The only source of truth
Cardinal of Conspiracy 10 - How high does this go?
Prophet of the Gutter 10 - An unmatched circulation
Alas, no extra accomplishment for reaching all three. And I was so hoping to be an "Earl of Ink" instead of a Press Barron.
This is a very big deal and a rather impressive accomplishment. Dave(Mr Dave? I feel like just calling you Dave is too informal) is not only the first to accomplish this, he is only the second person, as far as I know to have "An unmatched circulation."
To give you an idea, this costs 165 Whirring Contraptions and likely over 8200 actions. That's about three months worth of actions if you utilized every action in 16 hours and used no opportunity cards. That's more actions than most people used to get their Overgoat!
Congratulations, Mr Dave. A laudable accomplishment and one of which you should feel most proud. Hopefully this will unlock a rather exclusive storylet down the road!
Usually I go by "The Dave" if just "Dave" seems too informal. At least that's my twitter account, more or less. It was more actions than an overgoat; although not hugely so - and I think I only accomplished it because it *was* my overgoat grind. At the time I started, it earned only around 10%% less than the best options available per turn in cash, and I figured that if I ground for the overgoat that way I'd get my overgoat and something unique to boot, with only minimal additional effort. I didn't actually intend to go for all three titles (in fact I am not sure they were implemented at the time), I meant to keep going only until I got the goat. Once I bout it however I realized I was about 4/5 of the way to the third title I just kept going. Of course, somewhere along the line better echo/turn options came along, but by then I'd dug deep enough into the hole that I figured I'd keep on digging - a disastrous attempt at tales of terror grinding notwithstanding. It was indeed many months of clicking, much more than three for obvious reasons! But with breaks to check out new content it wasn't so bad. After exploring each new area briefly as it came out, I just went back to a very familiar grind. The biggest down side is that now I can't remember the newspaper stories at all - I have to read the wiki to see what they say. You'd think after seeing them so many times they'd be seared into my brain but instead they got filtered out somehow. Well, that and I can't pull out my smartphone without my wife saying "Are you playing that game again?!"
I don't, however, feel it is a particularly impressive or proud accomplishment - more like I'm the slow-witted rat that still hasn't quite given up on pushing the food lever, long after the other rats have moved on with their lives. Er, no offense to my ratly companions implied of course. Though I too hope it leads to an eventual somewhat exclusive storylet option.
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Aspeon
Posts: 311
9/21/2012
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Update on the chess front: The Boatman's Opponent 30+ is A Riverside Regular.
edited by Aspeon on 9/21/2012
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Dave
Posts: 215
9/21/2012
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Aspeon wrote:
Update on the chess front: The Boatman's Opponent 30+ is A Riverside Regular.
edited by Aspeon on 9/21/2012
Oh dear. Now I'm going to have to clear up time in my busy schedule to spend dead... Excellent work!
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Passionario
Posts: 777
9/28/2012
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My Connected: the Masters of the Bazaar has increased to 13 - There May be Indiscretions!
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Nathan Attford
Posts: 40
10/10/2012
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An update:
Connected: Society has increased to 2000 - Famed!
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I took a break for a bit to get my Connected: Great Game up to 150, but I came back to it.
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Woogawoman
Posts: 80
10/10/2012
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So what are the labels for Connected: The Great Game 100 and 150? Thanks1
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Nathan Attford
Posts: 40
10/10/2012
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Woogawoman wrote:
So what are the labels for Connected: The Great Game 100 and 150? Thanks1
100 is 'Manipulating' if I recall correctly.
150 is certainly 'A Power in the Shadows'
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aceinit
Posts: 19
10/14/2012
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My "Empire's Kingmaker" quality is 504 and climbing.
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Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
10/14/2012
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Nathan Attford wrote:
An update:
Connected: Society has increased to 2000 - Famed!
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Nathan~Attford
I took a break for a bit to get my Connected: Great Game up to 150, but I came back to it.
Whoa. That's impressive. My Connected: Society is about 268, and I thought *that* was high.
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Nathan Attford
Posts: 40
10/15/2012
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Catherine Raymond wrote:
Whoa. That's impressive. My Connected: Society is about 268, and I thought *that* was high.
*bows* So far as I'm aware, I've got the highest Connected score in anything. I've seen some 600s in Hell, and I know Miss Fenwick has 800 in Society and is aiming higher, but there's no one else over 1000 to the best of my knowledge.
If you're looking to raise it, I'd suggest attending the Duchess' salons at the palace and impressing them with your erudition. You should be looking at a level every two or three actions spent, and after that it's just perseverance.
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Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
10/15/2012
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Nathan Attford wrote:
Catherine Raymond wrote:
Whoa. That's impressive. My Connected: Society is about 268, and I thought *that* was high.
*bows* So far as I'm aware, I've got the highest Connected score in anything. I've seen some 600s in Hell, and I know Miss Fenwick has 800 in Society and is aiming higher, but there's no one else over 1000 to the best of my knowledge.
If you're looking to raise it, I'd suggest attending the Duchess' salons at the palace and impressing them with your erudition. You should be looking at a level every two or three actions spent, and after that it's just perseverance.
Nathan: thank you for the recommendation. However, at present I am more interested in raising my lower connecteds to a higher (say, over 50) level before I focus upon obtaining an unusually high level of Connection with any one group. However, it was surprising for me to see just how determined some of my fellow Fallen Londoners have been in achieving solidarity with a particular faction.
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Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
10/15/2012
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Woogawoman wrote:
I have Making Waves (Admired) 55, but likewise don't know if that's high compared to others.
It's higher than mine; I have Making Waves at 35. But then, I've used the quality once or twice in the past to lower my Scandal.
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Nathan Attford
Posts: 40
10/15/2012
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Catherine Raymond wrote:
Woogawoman wrote:
I have Making Waves (Admired) 55, but likewise don't know if that's high compared to others.
It's higher than mine; I have Making Waves at 35. But then, I've used the quality once or twice in the past to lower my Scandal.
Miss Fenwick (@OScarletO on twitter) had Making Waves 111 last I heard, and I know she didn't make the Most Admired last time there was one at the Feast of the Exceptional Rose, so I would guess there are probably higher. 55 is pretty high for non-insane people, though. Mine is only 30.
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silasilent
Posts: 41
11/17/2012
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Oh no! "Weather at Last" no longer raises Ruthless beyond 5! I had so many change points towards 107! I wonder if the other uncapped sources have also run dry. Is 106 as Ruthless as I'll ever be?
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Alexander von Brennenburg
Posts: 36
11/17/2012
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Many previously uncapped sources have run dry, I'm afraid. The Soul Trade no longer raises Heartless beyond 12, and A Little Omen is now capped as well. I guess high-value quirks are now a definite thing of the past.
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silasilent
Posts: 41
11/18/2012
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That's a shame. I was well on my way to Heartless 25, too.
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Shadowcthuhlu
Posts: 1557
11/18/2012
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Felicity Chase wrote:
Kaesa wrote:
Only two and a quarter more and you'll have a Ridiculous Hat for every day of the year! Of course that's something to be proud of.
As I'm not likely to gain any more through storylets, I'm now sort of tempted to buy the last two hats 
You can always get more with the theivery in the Flit, particularly if you send your minions to steal stuff as a distraction.
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FletcherHonorama
Posts: 6
11/20/2012
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Master Thief doesn't advance past 3 any more - and I was only about 15 Brass Embassy Robberies from the magical 20
What am I supposed to spend my actions mindlessly advancing now? This saddens me.
edited by FletcherHonorama on 11/20/2012
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Tesuji
Posts: 161
11/20/2012
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I find this all rather perplexing.
Giving capped players even less of a reason to play seems like an odd thing to spend time on, and turning opportunity cards whose only purpose is to raise quirks into more of a crapshoot seems even more strange.
I'm curious as to the purpose behind these changes, from a game design point of view. (From a player's point of view, I'm just very disappointed.)
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streetfelineblue
Posts: 1459
11/30/2012
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Well, the bright side of it is that whoever managed to obtain a now impossible score is now marked forever as an old Fallen London denizen - a veteran of sorts, whose depths in the chosen field are unparalleled (and unparalleleable - wait, is "unparalleleable" even a word?) by the youngsters, the more recent arrival in town XD Pity I didn't amass more than a meager 25 in Subtle as my highest Quirk -.-"
edited by streetfelineblue on 11/30/2012
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