This is the place to discuss playing the game. Find tips, debate the best places to find certain items and share advice.
The early phase of the University?
zbr308
Posts: 77
9/4/2014
|
I've gone through the guest lecturer part of university for a few times, now I'm considering progressing to my own department... but I still haven't tried everything. Are there any good options I should not miss? Should I spend as long as possible here before setting up my own department? I have Watchful 126 right now.
--
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/zbr308
|
|
|
0
link
|
Rackenhammer
Posts: 354
9/4/2014
|
If you were planning at some point to go for the Soul Trade story, I would definitely advise holding off on your own department until you have your timepiece/fork. They unlock some extra branches in the Day of the Debate storylet, which are useful for the spirifer or CVR member. Besides that, as for material rewards, there isn't anything here that you can't get anywhere else. But it is easier to build up College connections in the first part of the Storyline than the second, and Benthic connections are important for several item conversions. Reporting the Revolutionaries on the Roof to the College Authorities is the best source for this, but only if you've built them both up enough to succeed at the challenge already.
--
"DO NOT TRUST HAPPY ENDINGS. DO NOT FEAR SAD ENDINGS... NEITHER ARE ENDINGS."
~
Mathieu Psmith: The Bard of Lost Children, loving husband, and a fixture of the artistic set. Can never resist making a show of things...
Irene Psmith: Adopted Daughter of Mathieu. Specializes in Information, Acquisitions, and the Acquisition of Information.
Vaughan Montblanc: Once a frontiersman of Western Canada, he now practices medicine in London. His discretion may be absolutely trusted.
|
|
|
+1
link
|
Caninicus
Posts: 68
9/4/2014
|
I don't know if these things are replicated later, but I have chosen not to advance the university storyline just yet because I'm still farming the first storyline for several things.
Succeeding at a Watchful Check (Business and Pleasure) at Term Passing 11 at the Feast of the World (only if you still have your soul, sorry) will yield you a London Street Sign, salable for 2.5 echoes. You can do this three times before the final action at the end of the term. Here, I bet on the cricket match, which is unfortunately a straight luck check that has a 50% chance of increasing my Scholar of the Correspondence (which was already at 7 from searching for Curios in the Forgotten Quarter whilst looking for Eyeless Skulls). It's a long-term project, but when I can't raise my Scholar of the Correspondence any higher from betting on cricket matches, then I'll move on to founding my own department.
In the meantime, the Enjoying the Pace of Academic Life is a wonderful, if slow, way of reducing nightmares and gaining all those extras you get with it. I'm in no hurry to give it up, and the University is also an adequate source of Proscribed Material that I need for higher-tier item conversions.
Edit: typos
edited by Caninicus on 9/4/2014
--
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Caninicus
Editor of the Daily Thesis. Proud owner of one starveling cat. Will accept most social actions except loitering.
|
|
|
+1
link
|