Fallen London Wiki:Patch Tracking

FBG regularly releases patches to the game. Some of them are just minor tweaks that require updates to one or a handful of pages; some of them are very large, requiring dozens or hundreds of updates. This page is for tracking progress on updating the wiki for larger patches.

March 2024 Making Your Name Updates

Patch Notes

(Excluding the non-MYN patch notes from this week, of which there were also a few.)

Duelling with the Black Ribbon, Thefts for Master Thief & Procuring Savage Beasts for Mr Inch

• Increased the amount of overall progress (in Master Thief, Procurer of Savage Beasts, Fearsome Duellist) given by most turn-ins.
• Lowered the requirements and difficulties (in Casing, Running Battle, The Hunt Is On) of most turn-ins.
• Adjusted payouts slightly downward to reflect lower action requirements.
• Increased the amount of attribute experience given by each turn-in.
• Lowered the penalties (in Casing etc.) for failing a turn-in.

Master Thief/Casing... Pages

Bomb a meeting of financiers
Destroy a statue
Gleams in the darkness
Nobody would steal from it but you
Rob an outlying depository
Rob the glim ship
Rob the main archive
Rob the strong-box halfway through the evening
Rob the strongbox at the end of a busy evening
Rob the study
They know nothing.
Wait until it docks and rob the warehouse

Changes

• Increased progress
• Lowered requirements and difficulties
• Adjusted payouts
  • efficient of resource grind on guides needs adjustment
• Increased experience
• Lowered penalties
  • Potential Guide Changes On a Heist (Guide), Casing (Guide), Preparing for a Big Score.

Romances at Court

• Reduced Fascinating requirements for each stage from 10 to 6.
• Reduced difficulties of some Fascinating difficulty checks correspondingly.
• Lowered penalties to Fascinating for failing a check.
• Added small item rewards to each stage where they were lacking.
• Increased the amount of Persuasive experience given by each stage.

Expeditions in the Forgotten Quarter

• Added new low-efficiency options to trade resources for Supplies.
• These are not meant to be competitive in the longer term, but to offer lower-levelled players more options to spend items that they are likely to own.
• A benefactor now provides some free Expedition Supplies for the first run of each of the 'golden path' expeditions (a Thieves' Cache, the Shrine of the Deep Blue Heaven, and the Tomb of the Seven).
• Increased the amount of Watchful given out by completing the Tomb of the Seven.

Investigations at the University

• Reduced the Investigating requirements of each stage of the investigation (from 10/8/6 to 5 across the board).
  • efficient of resource grind on guides needs adjustment
• Reduced the Investigating difficulty checks to correspond with new requirements.
• Added small item rewards to each stage where they were lacking.
• Increased the amount of Watchful given out by each stage.

The Flit/Embroiled in the Wars of Illusion

• Removed the storyline's reliance on rare successes while carrying out courier jobs in the Flit. While fun conceptually, it was an uneven and frustrating way of pacing progress. Now any successful trade-in of Seeking or Investigating in 'The Heights of Chicanery' will increment Embroiled in the Wars of Illusion.
  • Guides needs adjustment
• The rare successes on other actions remain and may occasionally offer a boost to progress, but starting this storyline should now be a lot more reliable.

Mahogany Hall

• Reduced the amount of 'Tales of Mahogany Hall' required to set the 'Day of the Week'. Previously requirements ranged from 10-22; now they range from 8-14.
  • 14 cap on individual actions page need reduction
  • efficient of resource grind on guides needs adjustment
• Reduced the reduction of 'Tales of Mahogany Hall' when completing a day's performance.
• Increased the rewards of most performances to account for the action cost of setting the Day of the Week.
• Increased the amount of Shadowy experience given out by the final Glass/Shroud performance.

Carving Out A Reputation at Court and Poet-Laureate

• Reduced the Inspired requirements of shorter and longer works to 17 and 24 respectively.
• For symmetry and ease of understanding, these changes have been made to the Court in both stages: pre- and post-banishment.
• Retuned rewards appropriately.

Port Carnelian

• Reduced the number of Successful Terms as Governor required to host the Princess' state dinner and gain re-entry to Court from 5 to 2.
• Increased the Persuasive experience given out by hosting the Captivating Princess' state dinner. (Any encounter with the Princess is a sizeable learning experience.)

Making Progress in the Labyrinth of Tigers

• Reduced ‘The Hunt Is On’ requirements to progress throughout the story component of the Labyrinth from 8 to 7.
  • `The Hunt is On! test` lowered from 5 to 4 during progression
• Increased amount of Dangerous given out by each stage.