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[faeryqueen21]

So I still feel really lost. I started playing a couple of days before the Bazaar closed. I'm just trying to do storylets and cards (though I rarely have enough for the cards). I also now have an ambition. I am finding it hard to do much though since I fail at most things. I also cannot buy anything since everything I get will only fetch me pennies and everything costs waaaay more than that. I've started attacking people since I don't know what else to do but that hasn't done much for me either. Everyone keeps talking about all of this history of the land and such and I don't know any of it. Should I be interacting more on Twitter? Is that where a lot of these answers are coming from? Or are you all just playing constantly and building up tons of stuff/story? Cause it says the game can be played in minutes a day and yet I feel way behind and lost. Help?

[diszaster]

Maybe this will help:

1. Focus on one city/skill for a while until you get lucrative enough storylets (ie, 30 x whatever 1-penny commodity per turn). Then branch out. Money is a real problem, but at some point you'll get .3 echoes or better per action.

2. Play opportunity cards whenever possible. Only play cards that are worth spending the action point.

3. Try not to spread yourself out over several qualities. For example, I only have 1 kind of recurring dream, not several. I only have a few "Contacts" which I build up to higher levels. The others I ignore.

4. Only put actions into ambitions when they show up as high-risk or easier. Don't expect to finish an ambition anytime soon. I'm still working on the 1st one, which I started weeks ago.

5. Only have one venture at a time.

6. Do social things with your friends. Those second-chance bonuses you get really help sometimes.

Oh, and on the universe thing, all I can say is: read everything. The sidebars, the narratives of the storylets, other people's "echoes." Read it all.

[pancito]

Strategy Guide I

[normollse]

Can somebody here help me with one of the opportunity cards? It says that I need to enter the name of someone to participate in "a troubling conversation about dusty stones". Is there anyone who wants to do this with me?

[teh_lisa]

[normollse]

[diszaster]

You don't need to be following them, and they don't need to be following you. But they do need to be playing already, out of jail, and not uh "otherwise disposed."

[lifegospel]

OK, one last thing I'm a bit confused about.

I know there are pennies and fate, which are both currencies.
But what are echoes? Apparently I need 2 to buy a weapon.

[ancalime]

100 pennies equal 1 Echo. Echoes are the more in-game currency, Fate is for us as players to use.

[el Igore]

It's time for them to implement inter-player-trading.
I have a spare Warm Amber (weapon, persuasive +1) and I can't sell it at the Bazaar.
Or can weapons be stolen in KnC too, like the fighting items?

[teh_lisa]

[diszaster]

The PM did an interview on BBC 5 radio that is available here:

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/pods/pods_20100105-0330a.mp3

It's the second segment @ about 12:40.

[pancito]

Thanks diszaster. Good, informative interview. It addressed what I thought would be the primary scaling problem, contact with the Masters. I also found the idea that Fallen London is really/also a test of the toolset intriguing.

*goes to sign up for the Prisoner's Honey beta*

[diszaster]

Yes, as soon as the Masters started talking back in earnest to us, I changed my expectations about responsiveness. Have to be patient with this kind of thing, esp. given the tiny-ness of failbetter games as a company.

* blushingly admits she signed up for PH beta on day 1 *

[Fishjp]

Just for the record, any of you can invite me to do anything (in game that is) twitter = fishjp