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New Newgate Prison. A reflection.
Branden Linton
Posts: 391
5/22/2012
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I have been to New Newgate prison a few times in my time in Fallen London. As far as I'm concerned it's the most annoying of all the menace areas. It's boring, unchanging and tedious. Almost all the actions give one point of change to your freedom so all my trips there are way longer then I would like.
Getting out of there is a pain to. I don't know if you can bribe multiple times. I assume when you use an item it gets rid of the whole stack. There just seems to be no sense of progression in New Newgate. No new options unlock when you return there. It's mechanically the same as when you first arrive. Expect now there's no list of daring escape plans to choose from. Just the tedium of waiting for your enviable release.
I understand the reason for making the Prison so boring. Your trying to punish us. All the places of menace are there to punish us. One only gets sent to one of these god forsaken places for not following the rules of the game. Though none of them are permanent and most only take around twenty actions to escape they feel as though they drag on forever...
What I suggest is just make the Prison a tad less boring. Maybe add a new story, some new cards, better bribe options. You've changed the cost of the side street items to reflect the new item conversion system. Why not add some new options for higher level characters in that vein. Letters to the Governor that use Incendiary gossip to show you mean business. Have you gang of hoodlums raise hell on the outside to show how bad of an idea your incarceration was. Remind them of your triumphs in the name of justice, such as slaying Jack of Smiles, solving the rubbery murders and so on. Maybe just some cards reflecting your a person of some importance.
What I'm trying to say is that somewhere along the line I think you might have forgotten about where the story began. We all started scared and alone in a prison cell in New Newgate. Some lusting for revenge against a sworn enemy. Others wanting nothing more then to satiate there curiosity of the neath. All starting as nothing more then prisoners. All wanting nothing more then to be free. That first time you break out of New Newgate is special. It defines you in a way so many other actions pale to do in comparison. So I ask why are your consecutive visits to this place so much less interesting?
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Brom Girvan: a man of shadows and secrets. http://echobazaar.failbettergames.com/Profile/Brom~Girvan
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