Editing A Trade in Reputations (Guide)
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*Start whichever campaign you'd like, depending on which rewards are more useful to you. The EPA is the same for all campaigns (At {{IL|Advertising Profile: Name Recognition|Short=yes|3500 x}}, the EPA is 2.3). Once started, increase the campaign's difficulty as much as you can without making the checks hard. Remember that failing the checks decreases the amount of {{IL|Advertising Profile: Name Recognition|Short=yes}} that you have. With highest difficulty, highest stats (enough to 100% every check you pass) and using only actions which give you 312+ {{IL|Advertising Profile: Name Recognition|Short=yes}}, you can expect getting {{IL|Advertising Profile: Name Recognition|Short=yes|5000 x}} (or more), bringing your EpA to 3.(3)+. | *Start whichever campaign you'd like, depending on which rewards are more useful to you. The EPA is the same for all campaigns (At {{IL|Advertising Profile: Name Recognition|Short=yes|3500 x}}, the EPA is 2.3). Once started, increase the campaign's difficulty as much as you can without making the checks hard. Remember that failing the checks decreases the amount of {{IL|Advertising Profile: Name Recognition|Short=yes}} that you have. With highest difficulty, highest stats (enough to 100% every check you pass) and using only actions which give you 312+ {{IL|Advertising Profile: Name Recognition|Short=yes}}, you can expect getting {{IL|Advertising Profile: Name Recognition|Short=yes|5000 x}} (or more), bringing your EpA to 3.(3)+. | ||
| − | *Go for the BDR stat that you can get the highest. This will typically be Respectable or Dreaded, but depends highly on your selected Club, tattoes and Ambition Rewards. As for now, it looks like BDR-conflict cards (i.e., {{IL|An inconvenient duality|Short=yes}}) aren't worth it, so try focusing on one quality. Conflict cards can be drawn during duration 1, so it is best to have no conflicts nearing this threshold to | + | *Go for the BDR stat that you can get the highest. This will typically be Respectable or Dreaded, but depends highly on your selected Club, tattoes and Ambition Rewards. As for now, it looks like BDR-conflict cards (i.e., {{IL|An inconvenient duality|Short=yes}}) aren't worth it, so try focusing on one quality. Conflict cards can be drawn during duration 1, so it is best to have no conflicts nearing this threshold to maximize chances of getting rare cards. For ease of use, you can try combining your BDR-gear with your stats-increasing gear to allow passing all of the checks without switching gear. |
*Make sure to draw your cards so that you have few when you reach duration 1, so that you can draw new cards and have more chances at drawing good cards. | *Make sure to draw your cards so that you have few when you reach duration 1, so that you can draw new cards and have more chances at drawing good cards. | ||
*It may be best to skip getting help from {{IL|Advertising Profile: The Guileful Copywriter|Short=yes}} and {{IL|Advertising Profile: The Genre Painter|Short=yes}} by rejecting services of both of them/just one of them, if you can reliably pass checks on other opportunities. Rejecting costs zero actions and clears one slot in your hand. | *It may be best to skip getting help from {{IL|Advertising Profile: The Guileful Copywriter|Short=yes}} and {{IL|Advertising Profile: The Genre Painter|Short=yes}} by rejecting services of both of them/just one of them, if you can reliably pass checks on other opportunities. Rejecting costs zero actions and clears one slot in your hand. | ||
| − | *It is best to have 5-sized Lodgings to | + | *It is best to have 5-sized Lodgings to maximize chances of getting {{IL|Advertising Profile: Spokesperson|Short=yes}} from your first draw (and make some cards more profitable) and to almost guarantee getting rare opportunities with duration < 2. |
| − | *{{IL|A trade show|Short=yes}}(with {{IL|Violantly Mercantile Cuttlefish|Appearance =}} ) > {{IL|A stroke of luck|Short=yes}} > {{IL|A trade show|Short=yes}} > campaign-specific cards (i.e., {{IL|A questionnaire|Short=yes}}) > seasonal ones (i.e., {{IL|'Tis the Season|Short=yes}}). | + | *{{IL|A trade show|Short=yes}}(with {{IL|Violantly Mercantile Cuttlefish|Appearance = }} ) > {{IL|A stroke of luck|Short=yes}} > {{IL|A trade show|Short=yes}} > campaign-specific cards (i.e., {{IL|A questionnaire|Short=yes}}) > seasonal ones (i.e., {{IL|'Tis the Season|Short=yes}}). |
*You may in addition have a goal to increase shadowy and/or persuasive as much as you can, and/or gaining second chances for improving your stats. | *You may in addition have a goal to increase shadowy and/or persuasive as much as you can, and/or gaining second chances for improving your stats. | ||
*Menace-reducing actions with black borders (i.e., {{IL|Suspicious behaviour|Short=yes}}) are bad for EpA of grind; consider using other sources to reduce your menaces (like social actions). They may become profitable during Hallowmas, but only if used to increase menaces. | *Menace-reducing actions with black borders (i.e., {{IL|Suspicious behaviour|Short=yes}}) are bad for EpA of grind; consider using other sources to reduce your menaces (like social actions). They may become profitable during Hallowmas, but only if used to increase menaces. | ||
| − | To | + | To maximize raising your Shadowy and Persuasive: |
*Lower your difficulty so you can 100% all checks. | *Lower your difficulty so you can 100% all checks. | ||
*Grab help from {{IL|Advertising Profile: The Guileful Copywriter|Short=yes}} ASAP. He is key for several good options on other cards and brings potential for grabbing Shadowy Second Chances. | *Grab help from {{IL|Advertising Profile: The Guileful Copywriter|Short=yes}} ASAP. He is key for several good options on other cards and brings potential for grabbing Shadowy Second Chances. | ||
| − | *To | + | *To maximize Persuasive gains, gain help by recruting {{IL|Advertising Profile: The Genre Painter|Short=yes}}. He will help you with {{IL|A commission for the Genre Painter|Short=yes}}; they '''do''' give you Persuasive Second Chances, albeit at a slower pace than Shadowy Second Chances. Try not to mix help from both hirelings; it lowers your chance to effectively grind both of Stats. |
*Use {{IL|Buy advertising space in an existing serial|Short=yes}} in {{IL|A serialised novel|Short=yes}} whenever possible. "Rare success" seems to occur around 40-50% of times, so you'll get plenty of {{IL|Hastily Scrawled Warning Note|Short=yes}}, which can be converted to Shadowy in your Lodgings. | *Use {{IL|Buy advertising space in an existing serial|Short=yes}} in {{IL|A serialised novel|Short=yes}} whenever possible. "Rare success" seems to occur around 40-50% of times, so you'll get plenty of {{IL|Hastily Scrawled Warning Note|Short=yes}}, which can be converted to Shadowy in your Lodgings. | ||
*Use {{IL|Ask the Guileful Copywriter to review the product in your own paper|Short=yes}} on {{IL|Have (Campaign Focus) Reviewed|Short=yes}} if you have your own {{IL|Newspaper|Short=yes}}; if you're unlucky with {{IL|Advertising Profile: The Guileful Copywriter|Short=yes}}, use the common option (beware: it is more difficult without Copywriter's help, and it accrues more Scandal on failure). | *Use {{IL|Ask the Guileful Copywriter to review the product in your own paper|Short=yes}} on {{IL|Have (Campaign Focus) Reviewed|Short=yes}} if you have your own {{IL|Newspaper|Short=yes}}; if you're unlucky with {{IL|Advertising Profile: The Guileful Copywriter|Short=yes}}, use the common option (beware: it is more difficult without Copywriter's help, and it accrues more Scandal on failure). | ||
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*Don't try to gain more stats by raising challenges too high (and thus get more stat from failures); it is better to get some resources from the end of grind and get no Scandal than to get lots of Scandal and then clear it up somehow. | *Don't try to gain more stats by raising challenges too high (and thus get more stat from failures); it is better to get some resources from the end of grind and get no Scandal than to get lots of Scandal and then clear it up somehow. | ||
| − | To | + | To maximize your grind EpA outcome: |
*Grab 5-sized lodgings. | *Grab 5-sized lodgings. | ||
*Be sure to have less than 5 in both Scandal and Suspicion. | *Be sure to have less than 5 in both Scandal and Suspicion. | ||
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*On duration 5 it is better to play {{IL|The face of the campaign|Short=yes}} than any other card. Choose anyone except for yourself. Playing this card raises your difficulty a bit (and may make it impossible to raise difficulty further afterwards), but this raise will come handy at duration 1. If unable to choose Spokesperson immediately, play {{IL|Sampling the product|Short=yes}} - with 5-sized Lodgings you'll always have this in your first draw if you're unlucky with {{IL|The face of the campaign|Short=yes}}. | *On duration 5 it is better to play {{IL|The face of the campaign|Short=yes}} than any other card. Choose anyone except for yourself. Playing this card raises your difficulty a bit (and may make it impossible to raise difficulty further afterwards), but this raise will come handy at duration 1. If unable to choose Spokesperson immediately, play {{IL|Sampling the product|Short=yes}} - with 5-sized Lodgings you'll always have this in your first draw if you're unlucky with {{IL|The face of the campaign|Short=yes}}. | ||
*On duration 4 to 2 play any card that allows you to pass its check and give maximum possible amount of {{IL|Advertising Profile: Name Recognition|Short=yes}} while looking for {{IL|The face of the campaign|Short=yes}} (if not drawn earlier), except for those: {{IL|An urgent assignment|Short=yes}}, {{IL|Freshly-printed trade cards|Short=yes}}, {{IL|The efforts of the competition|Short=yes}}. {{IL|The efforts of the competition|Short=yes}} may seem like a good card, but it can shift your campaign's focus which will spawn conflict cards, and those conflicts are both bad for overall EpA and can proc on duration 1, thus blocking rare options. | *On duration 4 to 2 play any card that allows you to pass its check and give maximum possible amount of {{IL|Advertising Profile: Name Recognition|Short=yes}} while looking for {{IL|The face of the campaign|Short=yes}} (if not drawn earlier), except for those: {{IL|An urgent assignment|Short=yes}}, {{IL|Freshly-printed trade cards|Short=yes}}, {{IL|The efforts of the competition|Short=yes}}. {{IL|The efforts of the competition|Short=yes}} may seem like a good card, but it can shift your campaign's focus which will spawn conflict cards, and those conflicts are both bad for overall EpA and can proc on duration 1, thus blocking rare options. | ||
| − | *On duration 1 discard any discardable cards and use cards with colored borders (other than black-colored). Remember: {{IL|A trade show|Short=yes}}(with {{IL|Violantly Mercantile Cuttlefish|Appearance =}} ) is better than {{IL|A stroke of luck|Short=yes}} which is better than regular {{IL|A trade show|Short=yes}}; they are both strictly better than campaign-specific cards (i.e., {{IL|A questionnaire|Short=yes}} and the others), and seasonal ones (i.e., {{IL|'Tis the Season|Short=yes}}) are worse than all other rare options. If your difficulty is higher due to selecting face of the campaign, rare cards will become more profitable and can help you grab another item or two during final conversion. If you chose your Spokesperson, have no conflict cards, no cards with black borders and no undiscarded helpers, you are guaranteed to spawn at least 1 rare card on draw, which helps with your overall EpA. | + | *On duration 1 discard any discardable cards and use cards with colored borders (other than black-colored). Remember: {{IL|A trade show|Short=yes}}(with {{IL|Violantly Mercantile Cuttlefish|Appearance = }} ) is better than {{IL|A stroke of luck|Short=yes}} which is better than regular {{IL|A trade show|Short=yes}}; they are both strictly better than campaign-specific cards (i.e., {{IL|A questionnaire|Short=yes}} and the others), and seasonal ones (i.e., {{IL|'Tis the Season|Short=yes}}) are worse than all other rare options. If your difficulty is higher due to selecting face of the campaign, rare cards will become more profitable and can help you grab another item or two during final conversion. If you chose your Spokesperson, have no conflict cards, no cards with black borders and no undiscarded helpers, you are guaranteed to spawn at least 1 rare card on draw, which helps with your overall EpA. |
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