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A Interesting Idea...
Kylestien
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10/8/2014
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Okay, so i have a interesting idea for a forum game to do with Fallen London, but before I make a thread about it i need a few questions answered about the Give a Gift Card, specifically the one with the 1000 Echoes option.
1: i am given to understand it is random what you get. Is this true?
2: What can be obtained from it? Can it theoretically be anything, or is it set to a few useless items?
3: The most important part: Can you get bad stuff from it as well as good?
Also, anything else I need to know?
For those who are interested, the idea is below:
Basically, I (or preferably another giving me credit since I probably won't update it often) make a thread that is updated with people's profiles who want to join.
People with Echoes who want to join in then send these people random 1000 echo gifts when they get the card.
It's effectively A Game Of Chance which is also the name of the game: you get a 1000 echo gift from a person, and hopefully it's something awesome and not awful.
The reason it's not any gift is twofold: one: it would be too easy to just troll everyone sending live rodents, and the resources for the others are not viable for a game.
The idea needs a little work and I'd appreciate feedback.
edited by Kylestien on 10/8/2014
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I will accept all actions, though I hold the right to refuse for my own reasons. However, if you explain WHY you send me a harmful action like Loitering or Dantes,And I feel the reason good, I will consider it more. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Kylestien
Persuasive patron. You want a lesson, send me a message asking for one.
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Gillsing
Posts: 1203
10/8/2014
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Pass the Cat has one drawback that 'A Game of Chance' would not have: The card for Pass the Cat has an Unusual frequency, whereas the Give a Gift! card has a Standard frequency. So Pass the Cat comes up every few days if you draw a lot of cards, while Give a gift! comes up about once per day. (Then there are some Standard frequency cards that come up three times per day, so some Standard frequencies are more 'standard' than others.)
And luckily it's 1000 pence, which is 10 Echoes, not 1000 Echoes. As a PoSI one already gets such gifts from a card (An unsigned message) if one passes a Notability check (12% chance of success per level of Notability). And one can get any of the available contents of a Bundle of Oddities, up to the grand prize: a Blemmigan Secretary.
About 0.1% chance of that happening. Other than that it's maybe 60% chance of getting something that's worth ~10 Echoes, and 20% probability of getting something that's barely worth the two Actions it takes to receive and open the package, and 20% risk of getting something that is certainly not worth two Actions.
So you get two players spending 1+2=3 Actions and if they're lucky the second one gets the 10 Echoes that the first one s(p)ent. So it's like a regular postal service I guess? I indulge in the occasional package-sending, but the whole deal feels quite wasteful. It's especially bad that I as the sender can't even guarantee that it'll actually be worth the recipient's time. Spending two Actions to get a low number Bundle of Oddities? Some 'gift'. 
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