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Expanded Second Chance amount Caps on Cards?
dharthoorn
Posts: 105
10/25/2014
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Suddenly I'm noticing on a number of cards that the Second Chance gains from them seems to be capped at 20. At least for "A contact in the Great Game has a tale for you" choosing "Everyone deserves a second chance" does now seem to be capped at 20, whereas a couple of days ago it was still uncapped. At least I could swear it wasn't. That was my favorite card to hoard them too.....
I'm pretty sure it was implemented in more cards/storylets although no other examples come to mind at this moment. Or is this me having a selective memory again?
Anyhow, for the moment assuming that I am correct in my assertion, from a hoarding/spamming perspective this cap sucks in a big way, because it forces me to spend my second chances or lose out on net gain per card. From an overall gaming perspective it perhaps the exact same hoarding/spamming method was becoming a bit exploit-ish as (especially long-time players) could be hoarding them in the hundreds and so brute-force themselves to any challenge easily. My mind is divided on whether it is a good thing.
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Spacemarine9
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10/27/2014
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The key lies in the wording; "Romantic Notions remains unchanged, at 200" means that you just got nothing from a random effect, while "Romantic Notions hasn't changed, because it's greater than 200" means there's a cap at play. Basically if it doesn't say greater than/less than, it's nothing to do with a cap.
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Rackenhammer
Posts: 354
10/29/2014
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I don't know about that, Taimi; I went from 24 to 26 Confident Smiles from a Gift, so if that has a cap, it's higher than 20, at least for Persuasive Second Chances. Or the cap might be different depending on your POSI specialty; I'm a Legendary Charisma.
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Miss Perative
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10/30/2014
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This is good to know. Thanks for the intrepid testing!
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