friendshipranger
Posts: 274
9/14/2014
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Hey folks. This may sound somewhat crass, but I'm gonna come out and say it:
Sunless Sea lets you gain things from linking your Captain to your FL character. It makes sense, many captains have wealthy sponsors. Are there any discussions at Failbetter of doing the reverse? Allowing specific resources and echoes to transfer back to the FL character? That would be cool, especially if it piggybacked on the Time the Healer mechanic.
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babelfishwars
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Posts: 1152
9/15/2014
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friendshipranger wrote:
Hey folks. This may sound somewhat crass, but I'm gonna come out and say it:
Sunless Sea lets you gain things from linking your Captain to your FL character. It makes sense, many captains have wealthy sponsors. Are there any discussions at Failbetter of doing the reverse? Allowing specific resources and echoes to transfer back to the FL character? That would be cool, especially if it piggybacked on the Time the Healer mechanic.
I can't find the exact post, but I'm fairly certain they've said it's only going to be one way FL --> SS, and even then not much as they don't want people to feel they're missing out by not playing FL.
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Snowskeeper
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9/20/2014
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Fallen London is a F2P game, and while there is content locked away behind a pay-barrier, you can complete all the major storylines without paying a cent. You could theoretically accelerate your game by buying refreshes with Nex, but it'd be extremely expensive to do so.
Sunless Sea costs $20, which is 100 nex; as cool as allowing a Sunless Sea captain to pay their investor back would be, giving SS players a limitless source of wealth for their FL characters would not be fair.
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Nocculi
Posts: 22
9/24/2014
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I think one of the bigger issues is that the games run on very different economies and very different scales?
For instance: in Fallen London, even as a Person of Some Importance, prices in on the scale of "a couple hundred echoes" seem pretty substantial - such purchases would involve liquidating a noticeable fraction of my accrued stuff, and aren't something I can do repeatedly.
In Sunless Sea, a couple hundred echoes represents a reasonably successful 10-15 minute voyage! Significant purchases are in the thousands or tens of thousands. Which is perfectly fine: as a game that a) runs in real time and b) can permakill you, things simply have to happen faster in order for it to be any fun. (In FL, it's actually kind of cool for a trip to Mutton Island to take the better part of an afternoon! It makes it feel like a substantial trip. But holy crap, do I not have the hours in the day to sit down and do that in real time.)
And I think that in general, the idea of grinding [x] in one game to send to the other feels unpalatable to me. (As opposed to a model where actions in one game just create fun little cameos in the other, like a retired Zee-Captain sharing stories in Caligula's or harried London scholar fleeing an island with the Fleet of Truth hot on their tail.)
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GeoffreyBrent
Posts: 26
9/20/2014
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GerbilSchooler wrote:
It would be taking away from their steady source of income, Fallen London, to allow you to transfer wealth from a single player game to a FTP browser game
How so? FL revenue works by selling Fate/Nex, which can't be bought for Echoes. Even if I was able to transfer a million echoes from SS to FL, it wouldn't help me access the Fate-locked content.
That said, I can see it causing game-balance problems for FL.
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