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Is it just me, or are these home comforts rubbish?
Individual99991
Posts: 56
6/5/2014
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Oh, the terrible human cost of moving the basalt gymnasium into my home! Those newly dead and disfigured labourers weren't cheap. Neither were all the legal documents necessary to acquire my library. So imagine my miffedness when I discovered that the reward for my hard work (and, to a lesser extent, the hard work of other, less important individuals) was a poxy +1 to Watchful and Dangerous, and not to Respectable and Dreaded, as I had hoped.
Does anybody else feel a bit disappointed by the home comforts, or any of the other aspects of the extended inventory? Is it worth pursuing the card about rewriting the bible that keeps turning up, or should I just save it for when I run out of plot and other content?
(Sorry, Failbetter staff - your game is wonderful. I just wanted to vent a bit.)
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Pornogentilhomme
Posts: 22
10/30/2014
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So I was not the only one to be disappointed after spending my 12 strong backed labours. Wouldn't it make sense for the developers to re-equilibrate those home comforts? Because as they are, they really don't give to players any feeling of reward, as it is the case for any other challenge in the game. Usually spending much for a storylet gives you either good items or good story, but the Gymnasium gives you neither. It doesn't look like Failbetter policy, as the rest of their content is very good, so I think it is more like those items have been forgotten.
edited by Pornogentilhomme on 10/30/2014
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Rackenhammer
Posts: 354
10/31/2014
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Actually, I found the second option on God's Editors to be more useful, as it's one of the few places where you can raise Austere without lowering Hedonist. The menace reduction + Connection CP is a nice bonus to that.
But yeah, would really like to see some changes in Home Comforts, either boosting their stats, or adding a point of BDR. Heck, even a quirk-boosting opp card would be good.
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