Editing Making Waves (Guide)

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{{Audience|EarlyPoSI|Evergreen=yes}}You have a reputation! Now be sure to keep your name before the public. 
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== What is Making Waves? ==
:''"...there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." ''
:—Lord Henry, in ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' by Oscar Wilde (1891)

The quality {{IL|Making Waves}} tracks how much you're being talked about in Fallen London. As the in-game text says, "It is merely a distraction until you’ve achieved {{IL|A Person of Some Importance -|Appearance=Person of Some Importance}} status." 

Once you ''are'' a PoSI, Making Waves is how you increase your {{IL|Notability}}. Using the [[A visit from Slowcake's Amanuensis|Slowcake's Amanuensis]] card and an {{IL|Entry in Slowcake's Exceptionals}}, you can spend Making Waves to increase your Notability. How many levels of Making Waves you need to raise Notability is determined by the formula<span> [20 - (</span>{{IL|Bizarre|Appearance=B}}<span>+</span>{{IL|Dreaded|Appearance=D}}<span>+</span>{{IL|Respectable|Appearance=R}}<span>) + 4 * </span>{{IL|Notability|Appearance=N}}], in which B+D+R is the total of your Bizarre, Dreaded, and Respectable levels, and N is your current Notability. (For more on Notability and what it is used for, consult [[A Person of Some Importance (Guide)#Notability|the Notability sections of the PoSI guide]].) 

There are a variety of [[:Category:Making Waves Gain|actions that raise Making Waves]], and [[:Category:Making Waves Loss|actions that lower it]]. Every week, it is halved by [[Time, the Healer]]. 

== Why increase Notability? ==
{{IL|Notability}} is needed to obtain various [[Professions (Guide)|professions]] and unlock certain actions:
{| class="article-table"
! Notability !! Is needed to...
|-
| 1 || [[Use your influence to invite Slowcake's Amanuensis for a visit]].<br/>Meet [[The Amanuensis]] amongst your [[Marriage (Guide)|Wedding]] guests.<br/>Offer [[Mr Sacks! Take my good name!|your good name]] to [[12 Days of Mr Sacks (Guide)|Mr Sacks]] on day 2.
|-
| 2 || [[Await an Unsigned Letter]].<br/>Obtain the [[Tutor]] or [[Undermanager]] professions.<br/>Obtain a Tier 2 [[Professions (Guide)|profession]].
|-
| 3 || Obtain the [[Doctor]] or [[Notary]] professions.
|-
| 5 || Obtain a Tier 3 [[Professions (Guide)|profession]].<br/>Perform some [[Professional Activities (Guide)|Professional Activities]].<br/>[[Say nothing. Wait for the Amanuensis to speak instead|Say Nothing]] to Slowcake's Amanuensis to gain {{IL|Making Waves|+3 CP}}.<br/>Choose [[You yourself]] as the face of an [[A Trade in Reputations (Guide)|advertising campaign]].<br/>[[Become the Director who secretly owns half the company]] for the [[Railway Beginning (Guide)|Railway]].
|-
| 7 || [[Become the director they boast about]] for the [[Railway Beginning (Guide)|Railway]].
|-
| 9 || 100% chance to get [[A Surprise Package]] when choosing [[A gift?]] from [[An Unsigned Message]] card.
|-
| 10 || [[Commission a portrait]] at [[The Temple Club]].
|}
Note that Notability has a hard cap of 15.

Notability may also be ''spent'' on various actions, including:
* -1 Notability to [[Recommend an unknown acquaintance]], passing it to a friend with 0 Notability.
* -2 Notability (requires at least Notability 5) to [[Offer your name]] to the [[In the Court of the Fathomking|Fathomking]] to reduce {{IL|Wounds}}.
* -3 Notability (along with {{IL|Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre|7-9 x}}) to upgrade a 4-card to a 5-card [[Lodgings]] in [[Penstock's Wicket]] at [[Christmas (Guide)|Christmas]].
* -5 Notability to become a Tier 2 [[A Person of Some Importance (Guide)|Person of Some Importance]].
* -7 Notability to [[Insist on Favourable Circumstances]].
* -7 Notability (along with {{IL|Vial of Tears of the Bazaar|5 x}}) to obtain a [[Vial of Masters' Blood]] from [[A Presumptuous Little Opportunity]].
* -9 or -10 Notability (along with a [[Items (Guide)/Most Valuable|Tier 8 item]]) to upgrade a 4-card to a 5-card [[Lodgings]] at any time of year.
* -12 Notability to clear a Tier 2 [[A Person of Some Importance (Guide)|Person of Some Importance]].

On the path to becoming a Paramount Presence, you must acquire all four of [[London's Innards]]. Each of these requires you to have 12 Notability, and on obtaining any one of them your Notability is reset to 1.

== I need some Making Waves! ==
There are a number of different ways of getting Making Waves, and the best method depends on your resources, the amount of time you have, and the amount of Making Waves you need.
*'''Grinds: '''If you prefer to not spend too many resources on Making Waves, and have a full week ahead of you, there are several reliable grinds. 
**The first is the [[Template:Cross Conversion|cross-conversion carousel]]. This averages 1.6 CP MW (and {{E}}0.50) per action and is indefinitely cycleable, requiring only that players have at least 50 of one type of 50-pence item to start. You can use extra actions before [[Time, the Healer]] comes through to line up as many 50p items as possible at Making Waves conversions (e.g., converting them all to {{IL|Vision of the Surface|Appearance=Visions of the Surface}}) in order to maximize the efficiency of the carousel.
**The second is at {{IL|Helicon House}}, where the [[The Mirrored Salon|Mirrored Salon]] (once [[Discovered: the Mirrored Salon|unlocked]]) provides a [[Astonish the company with an illusion|grind]] that gives 4 CP MW per action. This may be done four times per visit to the House before the player must leave. By simply exiting the house immediately, this provides '''3.2 CP MW per action and no profit'''; by instead staying in the house to collect a final reward before leaving, players may accrue 2.7 CP MW and around {{E}}1.7 per action, with payout depending on choice of companion. 
***A more advanced version allows '''2.6 EPA''' if a player has {{IL|Train Luxuries}} 4, in order to use the [[Forget the biscuits, take the Solacefruit|solacefruit]] option and purchase {{IL|Tinned Ham}} to sell to the Bazaar. It requires players to have a [[Railway Beginning (Guide)|Railway,]] to have [[Acquaintance with Helicon House|unlocked Helicon House]], to have {{IL|Glasswork}} 8, and to have an {{IL|Oneiric Key}} or an {{IL|Location of an Underground Organ|Appearance=Underground Organ}} to avoid repeatedly paying the House's entry fee. Once all of these conditions are met, however, it is the fastest way to repeatedly and indefinitely grind Making Waves. Assuming 120 actions per day, at 2.7 CP MW per action, one might go from zero to 66 levels of MW in a week; at 3.2 CP MW per action, that increases to 72 levels of MW.  Assuming no other interaction with the game.
**Players with endgame stats will prefer {{IL|The Courts of the Evenlode}}, where you can choose a case to intervene (after raising [[Time Spent in the Magistracy]] to 3), then raise {{IL|Prestige of a Legal Case}} until you have the opportunity to grandstand while either [[Grandstand! (Prosecution)|prosecuting]] or [[Grandstand! (Defence)|defending]], giving 3 x {{IL|Prestige of a Legal Case|Appearance=}} CP MW, plus a material reward at the end of the cycle. You can freely grind MW by [[(Side) for the plaintiff in a civil suit of Tomb-Colonists against Devils|siding with the Tomb-Colonists]], raising {{IL|Prestige of a Legal Case|Appearance=Prestige}} to 7 before grandstanding for 21 CP MW in a 6 actions cycle, resulting in a total '''3.5 CP MW per action''' and up to '''4 EPA''', beating the {{IL|Helicon House}} grind by a decent margin. This grind requires players to have finished {{IL|The Efficient Commissioner's Tale}}, {{IL|Persuasive}} 292, a [[Railway Board (Guide)|Hell Charter]], {{IL|A Player of Chess}} 12 and {{IL|Mithridacy}} 15 (or 13, if you do not care about a lower overall EPA).
*'''Lodgings cards: '''If you would like a lot of Making Waves quickly, and don't mind spending resources on them, many [[Making Waves (Guide)#Lodgings cards|Lodgings cards]] offer MW actions that typically cost around {{E}}1 per CP of Making Waves. These can be very useful for getting high levels of MW, as they generally give a lot at one time.
*'''Social actions: '''If you want to get a last few points before the week ends, and only have a few actions to get them with, you may want to be flattered by a non-PoSI at Dante's Grill via [[Benefit from flattery at Dante's Grill]] or [[Share a pot of tea at Beatrice's Tea Shop]]; both are Social Actions and require both players to have free evenings. If you are a tier 2 PoSI, you may also become a Patron and teach them your chosen skill in [[Deal with matters of Patronage!]] Alternatively, [[Meet someone for a Coffee at Caligula's]] if you don't have any free evenings. If you don't want to or don't have time to interact with others, there are some universally available grindable Actions that reliably give small amounts of Making Waves. Actions that give 1 CP per action or less are usually not sustainable for getting higher levels of Notability, however.
*'''A Trade in Reputations: '''If you are PoSI, you can semi-reliably grind MW with Trade in Reputations (available at Bazaar Side-streets). Choose You, Yourself at [[The face of the campaign]] (Note that this usually requires you to already have Notability 5), then play all the cards like [[A bizarre campaign]] (depending on your focus, it may be dreaded/respectful). Rare successes (about 40-50% chance) will give you 1 point of MW; campaign itself will give you decent(ish) EPA in resources. At average, this will net you 3-4 CP of MW per 15 Actions with 2.5-3.3 EPA (depending on chosen difficulty). Only decent use for this grind is when you don't have access to Railroad and Parabolan War. If you have both of those, unlock Helicon House and its Mirrored Salon and use that instead.
*'''Salon: '''For very high levels of Making Waves, the [[Making Waves (Guide)#Handsome Townhouse|Salon]] is the most effective option. It takes time and resources to [[Scheme: Set up a Salon|set it up]] and to raise Scheme, but once high levels of Scheme are obtained it can give around 3 CP MW per  {{E}}1 of investment. For ''very'' high levels of Making Waves, the Salon and [[Scheme: Set up an Orphanage|Orphanage]] can also be used to "bank" MW to allow more than a week's worth of grinding.

==Grindable actions==
Grindable actions that increase {{IL|Making Waves}} are:
*{{IL|Helicon House}}: [[Astonish the company with an illusion]] in the Mirrored Salon. At {{IL|Persuasive}} 209 and {{IL|Glasswork}} 8, this provides 16 CP for 5 actions (3.2 CP/action) if you leave the house without gathering rewards at {{IL|Time Remaining at Helicon House|Appearance=Time Remaining}} 1. If you do not have the {{IL|Oneiric Key}}, repeated entry to the house may become costly.
*{{IL|The University}}: [[Mixing in Summerset Society]] and [[A feather in Benthic's mortar board]] at {{IL|Featuring in the Tales of the University}} 5 and {{IL|Term Passing...}} below 11 (2 CP)
*{{IL|The Empress' Court}}: Discussing anything in [[The life of the mind]] (1 CP)
*{{IL|Evenlode Courts}}: During closing arguments, you can [[Grandstand! (Defence)|Grandstand!]] This will grant 21 CP for 6 actions (3.5 CP/action) in addition to producing the other rewards of a trial. 
*{{IL|Veilgarden}}
**Cycling between being [[Identified with a School:]] [[Write a lewd satirical song about the Grand Hunt of the Devils|[1]]] [[Rewrite a collection of sea-shanties|[2]]] [[Finish a libretto|[3]]] at [[The Singing Mandrake]] gives 1 CP/action for [[Start an argument with a leading light of your favoured school|going rogue]] and 1-10 for aligning to a school at the cost of 3 actions and different items/connections/gains. Also changes [[Quirks]]. (1.6 CP on average)
**[[Supply wine in exchange for Prisoner's Honey]] at [[The Honey-Dens of Veilgarden]] (1 CP and {{IL|Drop of Prisoner's Honey|40 x}} for {{IL|Bottle of Greyfields 1879|50 x}})

===Cross-Conversion Carousel===
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Upgrading and converting certain items across categories gives ~1.6 CP '''on average'''; check the [[Items_(Guide)#Conversion_overview_with_cross-category_conversions_.28Tier_3_column.2C_downwards.29|Items Guide]] for more information. This process is also known as the 50p item carousel.
*The [[Template:Cross Conversion|cross-conversion carousel]] will on average give 21 CP per 13 actions (1.62 CP per action).

Although the conversion carousel gives 1.6 CP per action on average, it can be made more efficient. In particular, the string of conversions between {{IL|Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe|Appearance=Strangling Willow Absinthe}} and {{IL|Vision of the Surface|Appearance=Visions of the Surface}}, which all give 0 MW, may be done in advance of Time, The Healer's visit. This allows players to immediately begin getting Making Waves at the start of the week, offering more time to reach a MW goal. 

As the carousel is very modestly profitable (each batch of 50 items results in 51 items of the next category), it is possible to "snowball" and become self-sustaining. It's up to you how many items you want to convert at one time; large batches of resources (thousands of 50p items or more) can be more easily optimized in the above manner, but also represent a significant action investment. The cross-conversion carousel is generally adequate on its own up to moderately high Notability goals, depending on BDR, and even at later levels is useful to complement Salons or Lodgings grinds.

The carousel can actually rival Helicon House for EPA and MW CP per Action in the long-run, given that random values for cross-conversion and upgrading will eventually average out to the mean. This method is especially useful for  players who are still pre-Railway. In order to do so, you need a newspaper in {{IL|Doubt Street}}, {{IL|Shadowy}} 217, {{IL|Mithridacy}} 6 and {{IL|Route: The Bone Market}}. You can get the {{IL|Whirring Contraption}} needed to publish by following the [[Searching out a Missing Woman (Guide)|Searching out a Missing Woman]] story in {{IL|Wilmot's End}}. By publishing [[An edition brimming with truth and wisdom]], you will receive {{IL|Journal of Infamy|118 x}}, which can be cross converted until you have {{IL|Memory of Distant Shores}}, which can be [[Dealing with the deviless|upconverted into Collated Research]]. Selling the spoils of this upgrade, along with the {{IL|An Identity Uncovered!|4 x}} from the newspaper, generates an '''EPA''' of ~2.5. In addition, you will receive 3.2 CP of MW per action, which beats out all Helicon House choices that turn a profit. As a drawback, this method is much less consistent than Helicon House, so while it technically is more efficient, the length of the full grind (33-34 actions) means you may get unlucky one week. However, if you use 120 actions a day, you can run this cycle around 25 times in a week, generating ~2600 CP MW, enough to raise you from zero to 71 levels of MW in a week, as well as providing {{e}}2000.

===Up-Conversions===
While these conversions do not form a continuous loop like the the T3 cross-conversions do, many of them give higher amounts of MW per conversion, so they can be a useful method to acquire mid-scale amounts of MW. Sources for these items vary; see the respective grinding guides for the starting items for details.
*T2 to T3
**[[Pen some Neathy love poetry for a Surface audience|Romantic Notions into Visions of the Surface]] (2 or 3 (rare) CP)
**[[Hold a salon dedicated to nostalgia for the Surface|Romantic Notions into Visions of the Surface (in bulk)]] (1-9 CP)
*T3 to T4
**[[Read out your Tales of Terror at a Summerset College Senior Common Room|Tales of Terror into Extraordinary Implications]] (5, 10, or 30 (rare) CP depending on luck check)
**[[A romantic sort of compromise|Compromising Documents into Stolen Kisses]] (1-6, 1-4, or 1-11 (rare) CP depending on luck check)
**[[Tell tall tales with the Salty Fabulist|Zee-Ztories into Partial Maps]] (1-8, 1-5, or 1-10 (rare) CP depending on luck check)
**[[Speak with bohemians about lost loves and the Surface|Visions of the Surface into Touching Love Stories]] (1-10, 1-4, or 1-20 (rare) CP depending on luck check)
**[[Speculate on the identity of certain parties at a salon|Incendiary Gossip to Identities Uncovered]] (1-16, 2-16, or 4-43 (rare) CP depending on luck check)
**[[Dealing with the deviless|Memories of Distant Shores into Collated Research]] (1-15 or 1-40 (rare) CP)
*T4 to T5
**[[Benthic's Press|Extraordinary Implications into Uncanny Incunabula]] (2-30, 1-20, or 1-42 (rare) CP depending on luck check)
**[[Ask the Muffled Intriguer to broker your Stolen Kisses|Stolen Kisses into Favours in High Places]] (1-45, 1-35, or 1-65 (rare) CP depending on luck check)

==Social actions==
These depend on the recipient accepting, so don't splurge before checking that your invitation is likely to be accepted.
*[[Meet someone for a Coffee at Caligula's]] has no cost and gives 1 CP MW, or 2 CP and 1 CP {{IL|Scandal}}. The recipient also gets MW.
*[[Benefit from flattery at Dante's Grill]], requires a non-{{IL|A Person of Some Importance -|PoSI}} friend, whose MW will be drained by this action. Also costs a {{IL|Free Evening}} and {{E}}10. The guest loses up to 100 CP, and the host gets however many CP were drained.
*[[Share a pot of tea at Beatrice's Tea Shop]] only costs a {{IL|Free Evening}}, both participants get a variable amount of MW CP (roughly 10-15), a -2 CP reduction to a menace of the recipient's choosing, and around 35 CP of {{IL|Persuasive}}
*[[The Rewards of Correspondence]] can give you [30 + {{IL|Bizarre}} + {{IL|Dreaded}} + {{IL|Respectable}}] MW CP, once you have 4 levels of {{IL|Corresponding...}}; This would take 10 letters sent from [[Epistolary Matters]] unless you are a [[Correspondent]] or [[Midnighter]] who can [[Compile notes on the Correspondence]] and [[Encrypt a coded instruction]], respectively.

If you have a willing non-PoSI friend, using up both your 5x {{IL|Free Evening}}s doing 4x [[Share a pot of tea at Beatrice's Tea Shop]] and then 1x [[Benefit from flattery at Dante's Grill]] will make 80-120 MW CP (16-24 MW CP per action) once per week.

===Slights and assassins===
In addition to the actions above, there are opportunities to slight your acquaintances on a few occasions. Specifically when:
*{{IL|A column revealing certain facts about an acquaintance|Appearance=Writing newspapers}}
*{{IL|Spill wine on a social rival|Appearance=Attending parties in Veilgarden}}
*{{IL|Spread gossip about a rival|Appearance=Gossiping to Mr Slowcake's Amanuensis on his opportunity card}}

Your friend may reciprocate a slight by sending an assassin after you, or by {{IL|Forgive and Forget|Appearance=forgiving you}}.
Forgiving gives an increase in {{IL|Scandal}} and isn't very exciting or profitable, but sending assassins after your friends gives on average 20 CP {{IL|Making Waves}}. Being the one who is forgiven on the other hand gives 1-6CP MW and a randomized loss of {{IL|Scandal}}.

{| class="article-table mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+Assassin table
|-
!Location / Cost to recruit
!Option
!Challenge
!Success
!Failure
|-
! colspan="5" |{{IL|Pursued by the Minacious Marksman|Appearance = The Minacious Marksman}} - {{IL|A Crack of Gunfire!}}
|-
| rowspan="3" |{{TableList|{{IL|The Flit}}|{{IL|Piece of Rostygold|250 x}}|{{IL|London Street Sign|2 x}}}}
|[[Climb up to the Flit and face him head-on]]
|{{IL|Dangerous}}
|{{TableList|{{IL|Puzzle-Damask Scrap|1 x}}|{{IL|Memento of Violence|1 x}}}}
|{{TableList|{{IL|Surface-Silk Scrap|50 x}}|{{IL|Wounds}}}}
|-
|[[Fortunately, you have made arrangements]]
|{{IL|A Player of Chess}} 8
|{{IL|Favour in High Places|1 x}}
|{{TableList|{{IL|Ancient Hunting Rifle|1 x}}|{{IL|Wounds}}}}
|-
|[[Stand and dare him to take the shot]]
|
|{{TableList|{{IL|a slow boat passing a dark beach on a silent river}}|{{IL|Wounds}} 8}}
|
|-
! colspan="5" |{{IL|Pursued by the Gloomy Guttersnipe|Appearance = The Gloomy Guttersnipe}} - {{IL|A Sudden Shadow!}}
|-
| rowspan="3" |{{TableList|{{IL|Wolfstack Docks}}|{{IL|Piece of Rostygold|250 x}}|{{IL|Aeolian Scream|2 x}}}}
|[[Fight him off]]
|{{IL|Dangerous}}
|{{TableList|{{IL|Nodule of Trembling Amber|1 x}}|{{IL|Memento of Violence|1 x}}}}
|{{TableList|{{IL|Surface-Silk Scrap|50 x}}|{{IL|Wounds}}}}
|-
|[[Shift your organs out of the way]]
|{{IL|Shapeling Arts}} 8
|{{IL|Ivory Humerus|1 x}}
|{{TableList|{{IL|Bone Fragments|500 x}}|{{IL|Wounds}}}}
|-
|[[Allow yourself to be stabbed]]
|
|{{TableList|{{IL|a slow boat passing a dark beach on a silent river}}|{{IL|Wounds}} 8}}
|
|-
! colspan="5" |{{IL|Pursued by the Polite Poisoner|Appearance = The Polite Poisoner}} - {{IL|A Curious Taste}}
|-
| rowspan="3" |{{TableList|{{IL|The Forgotten Quarter}}|{{IL|Piece of Rostygold|250 x}}|{{IL|Muscaria Brandy|2 x}}}}
|[[Pretend to drink]]
|{{IL|Shadowy}}
|{{IL|Magnificent Diamond|1 x}}
|{{TableList|{{IL|Bottle of Morelways 1872|50 x}}|{{IL|Scandal}}}}
|-
|[[Drink up. Metabolize the poison.]]
|{{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 8
|{{IL|Blackmail Material|1 x}}
|{{TableList|{{IL|Whisper-Satin Scrap|10 x}}|{{IL|Wounds}}}}
|-
|[[Drink up. Try to enjoy it.]]
|
|{{TableList|{{IL|a slow boat passing a dark beach on a silent river}}|{{IL|Wounds}} 8}}
|
|-
! colspan="5" |{{IL|Pursued by Johnny Croak|Appearance = Johnny Croak}} - {{IL|A Warning Croak}}
|-
| rowspan="3" |{{TableList|{{IL|Watchmaker's Hill}}|{{IL|Johnny Croak}}|{{IL|Rat on a String|250 x}}|{{IL|Baptised Rattus Faber Corpse|2 x}}}}
|{{FontFate}}
|{{IL|Shadowy}}
|{{TableList|{{IL|Puzzling Map|1 x}}|{{IL|Memento of Violence|1 x}}}}
|{{TableList|{{IL|Shard of Glim|500 x}}|{{IL|Wounds}}}}
|-
|{{FontFate}}
|{{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 8
|{{IL|Antique Mystery|1 x}}
|{{TableList|{{IL|Cellar of Wine|1 x}}|{{IL|Wounds}}}}
|-
|{{FontFate}}
|
|{{TableList|{{IL|a slow boat passing a dark beach on a silent river}}|{{IL|Wounds}} 8}}
|
|}

==Carousels or projects==
Things that take longer and cost more but can give substantial boosts
*[[The Writer's Desk]] (see [[Short Stories (Guide)]] for more explanation).
*[[On a Heist|Heists]]: [[After the Burglary]], you receive MW equivalent to 1x to 4x the amount of Burglar's Progress accumulated (depending on the Target Security: quality). You can grind more Casing than needed to get Intriguing Keys, Inside Information, and Escape Routes before starting the heist, then keep drawing cards even after you've got enough Progress for the [[A Prize Achieved!]] (Thanks for this tip, to comment below from anonymous user dated 21 July 2019.) See the [[Casing (Guide)|Casing guide]] and [[On a Heist (Guide)|On a Heist guide]] for more help with heists.
**If you have a [[A Room at the Royal Bethlehem Hotel|guest room]] or a [[A Suite at the Royal Bethlehem|suite]] at the Royal Bethlehem Hotel, burgling [[The Circumspect Envoy's Townhouse]] and [[Take a series on the succession laws of Arbor]] is simultaneously a good way to get the {{IL|Magnificent Diamond}} needed to make the {{IL|Bejewelled Lens}} for the MW gain action on your Lodgings opportunity card.
*You can bank up a stash of [[Extraordinary Implication]]s, and upconvert them to [[Uncanny Incunabulum|Uncanny Incunabula]] for 2-30CP of {{IL|Making Waves}} per batch of 25 EIs. You can then sell the incunabula to the [[The Rat Market (Guide)|Rat Market]] during certain weeks, and then use the Rat Shillings obtained that way to buy [[Appalling Secret]]s. You can upconvert these secrets to {{IL|Tale of Terror!!}} and those again into [[Extraordinary Implication]], which again gives a Making Waves boost (10 CP per 50 Tales).
**You can kickstart this cycle by [[Publishing a Newspaper (Guide)|publishing newspapers]] for {{IL|Journal of Infamy}} and upconverting those
**This cycle is self-reinforcing (you get more inputs for the cycle than you need to complete it)
**You can only sell {{IL|Uncanny Incunabulum}} to the Rat Market for 3 out of 12 weeks of the Rat Market cycle, which makes it somewhat of a medium- to long-term project
**When you are done with grinding Making Waves, you can use the Rat Market to obtain other items from your initial investment

==Opportunity cards==
Opportunity card actions that increase {{IL|Making Waves}}. While most of the grindable options are free and/or mildly profitable unless otherwise noted, these cost resources. However, they are more time-efficient than the grindable methods.

===Lodgings cards===
Some major MW gains are found on the opportunity cards specific to Lodgings you own.
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====Handsome Townhouse====
''For a more detailed guide, see [[Handsome Townhouse: Schemes (Guide)]].''

[[The Tower of Eyes: Behind Closed Doors at a Handsome Townhouse]] is one of the most efficient ways of generating large amounts of MW, either through a Salon or an Orphanage. Both options require raising ''Scheme'', which may be cashed in for Making Waves. The Salon raises ''Scheme'' through Bohemians and Society favours, as well as {{IL|Stolen Kiss|Appearance=Stolen Kisses}} and {{IL|Favour in High Places|Appearance=Favours in High Places}}. The Orphanage primarily requires Echoes and items that may be bought from the Bazaar. Although this does in theory make the Orphanage more flexible to grind for, both Bohemian and Society favours are relatively abundant, and it costs only half as much to raise ''Scheme'' with the Salon compared to the Orphanage. Once you've unlocked {{IL|Tribute}} the opportunity cost of using your favours will make the options about equally efficient, and you will want to look for other ways to increase MW instead.

For a Salon, you build up {{IL|Engaged in a Scheme: a Salon}}.
{| class="article-table"
!Option
! style="width:30%" |Requirements
! style="width:11%" |Echo cost
! style="width:10%" |''Scheme''
! style="width: 19%" |Scheme/Echo Ratio
|-
|[[Pursue a Scheme: encourage the great and the good to attend your Salon|Encourage the great and the good to attend your Salon]]
|{{IL|Favours: Society|3 x}}<br />{{IL|Favour in High Places|1 x}}
|55.1 E (counting each tribute favour at 10 E)
| 5 - 7 CP<br>(Avg. 6)
|0.24
|-
|[[Pursue a Scheme: encourage the wise and the wicked to attend your Salon|Encourage the wise and the wicked to attend your Salon]]
|{{IL|Favours: Bohemians|3 x}}<br />{{IL|Stolen Kiss|4 x}}
|52.6 E (counting each tribute favour at 10 E)
| 2 - 11 CP<br>(Avg 6.5)
|0.29
|}
Salon CP can be cashed out by inviting various people to your Salon, at a range of costs and rewards. The list of possible invitees depends on {{IL|The Airs of London}}, which may be shuffled through a variety of actions. 
*Most invitees (Silas the Showman, the Presbyteriate Diplomat, The Mercies, The Repentant Forger, and the Sardonic Music-Hall Singer) cost between 15 and 30 CP of ''Scheme'', and give, on average, '''10 to 11 CP of MW per CP of Scheme'''. For some of these invitees, the range is larger than for others.
** From least variance to most, they are: The Mercies, The Sardonic Music-Hall Singer, Silas the Showman, The Presbyterate Diplomat, The Repentant Forger.
** The Mercies should not be attempted without Scheme 10 or higher, as a failure returns only 3.3/4.0 CP of MW per CP of Scheme. Silas the Showman can fail, returning no MW, but only expends 1 CP of Scheme; the Forger can also fail, but this just gives a smaller result with an equally good exchange rate; +10 MW CP, -1 CP of Scheme. 
*It is possible to invite other players: [[Invite an Author acquaintance|Authors]] give 150 CP Making Waves for 15 CP ''Scheme'' ('''10 CP MW per ''Scheme'''''), with no Airs requirement; [[Invite a Crooked-Cross to address your Salon|Crooked-Crosses]] give 200 CP Making Waves for 15 CP ''Scheme ''('''13.3 CP MW per ''Scheme'')''', and require {{IL|The Airs of London|Appearance = Airs}} 80-100.
*If you have the [[Lyrebird Educated in Three Schools]] from [[Whitsun]], you can [[Your Salon: Present your Lyrebird Educated in Three Schools|present it]] for 15 CP ''Scheme'' with {{IL|The Airs of London|Appearance = Airs}} 25-50 for 150 CP Making Waves. '''(10.7 CP MW per ''Scheme'')'''
*[[Your Salon: invite the Duchess as a guest of honour|Inviting the Duchess]] ({{IL|The Airs of London|Appearance = Airs}} 25-50) is an especially expensive option, costing a {{IL|Midnight Matriarch}} and 65 CP ''Scheme'', with a reward of 850 CP of Making Waves. ('''13 CP MW per ''Scheme''''')

At its most efficient (building Scheme via Wise and Wicked and cashing it in with Crooked-Cross visits), this will give a return of '''3.8 CP MW per Echo''' invested.

For an Orphanage, you build up {{IL|Engaged in a Scheme: an Orphanage}}.
{| class="article-table"
!Option
! style="width: 9%" |{{IL|The Airs of London|Appearance=Airs}}
! style="width: 35%" |Requirements
! style="width: 11%" |Echo cost
! style="width: 10%" |''Scheme''
! style="width: 10%" |Scheme/Echo Ratio
|-
|[[Pursue a Scheme: offer some Urchins a place in your Orphanage|Offer some Urchins a place in your Orphanage]]
|31-70
|{{IL|Favours: Urchins|5 x}}<br />{{E}}30
|{{E}}51
| 4 - 8 CP<br>(Avg 6)
|0.12
|-
|[[Look after your Orphanage]]
|71-100
|{{IL|F.F. Gebrandt's Tincture of Vigour|5 x}}<br />
{{IL|Sober Dress|5 x}}<br />
{{IL|Set of Workman's Clothes|5 x}}<br />
{{IL|Foxfire Candle Stub|250 x}}<br />
{{E}}50
|{{E}}59.5
| 4 - 9 CP<br>(Avg 6.5)
|0.11
|-
|[[Pursue a Scheme: Admit your Winsome Orphan to the Orphanage|Admit your Winsome Orphan to the Orphanage]]
|0-30
|{{IL|Winsome Dispossessed Orphan|1 x}}<br />{{E}}10
|{{E}}74.80
| 1 - 11 CP<br>(Avg 6)
|0.08
|-
|[[Pursue a Scheme: Introduce your Warm-Hearted Amber Iguana as a Pet|Introduce your Warm-Hearted Amber Iguana as a Pet]]
|0-30
|{{IL|Warm-hearted Amber Iguana|1 x}} (not consumed)<br />{{E}}40
|{{E}}40
| 3 - 14 CP<br>(Avg 8.5)
|0.21
|}
As with the Salon, there are a variety of cash-out options. 
*[[Scheme: Graduation|Graduation]] and [[Scheme: Reunite a Dispossessed Orphan with loving parents|Reuniting a Dispossessed Orphan]] give an average of 150 CP MW for 15 CP Scheme. ('''10 CP MW per Scheme''')
*[[Invite a Correspondent acquaintance to educate the orphans|Invite a Correspondent acquaintance]], with {{IL|The Airs of London|Appearance = Airs}} 80-100, and [[Invite a Midnighter acquaintance to honour a tradition of St Joshua|Invite a Midnighter acquaintance]], with {{IL|The Airs of London|Appearance = Airs}} 0-20, both give 200 CP MW for 15 CP Scheme. ('''13.3 CP MW per Scheme)'''

At its most efficient (building Scheme with an Iguana and inviting Midnighters or Correspondents), this gives a return of '''2.8 CP MW per Echo'''. If the Iguana is not available, this becomes '''1.6 CP MW per Echo''' via the 5 x Urchins Favours option.

'''Banking Actions: '''If you have a cooperative friend, or an alt, you can "bank" social invites from the Salon or Orphanage by sending the invites as the options become available, but asking them to not accept them immediately. Then, when you have enough in store to reach your Notability goal, ask them to accept all of the invites at once. This avoids the need to draw the Handsome Townhouse card many times in a single week. Note that this does not work with any of the NPC invites, which are automatically accepted as soon as they are sent.

====Other Lodgings====
Most other Lodgings cards have some method of accruing Making Waves, though none are as elaborate as the Townhouse. See [[Lodgings Cards (Guide)]] for more details.

[[Rooftop Shack]]:
*[[An Unorthodox Arrangement]] gives 1 to 30 CP MW (avg:15.5) for a {{IL|Favours: Society|Appearance=Society Favour}} and a {{IL|Favour in High Places}}.
**Occasionally gives a {{IL|Sudden Insight}}.
[[Cottage by the Observatory]]:
*[[Invite guests from the observatory to a symposium|Invite guests]] to trade a {{IL|Searing Enigma}} for 65 CP MW. 
**Note that there is an {{IL|A Scholar of the Correspondence|Appearance=SotC}} challenge associated with this - if you fail, you won't lose the Enigma, but you won't gain the MW either.
[[Lair in the Marshes]]:
*Hosting [[A Masque in the Marshes]] gives approximately 64 - 75 CP MW (or 82 - 108 CP on a rare success), in exchange for a {{IL|Parabola-Linen Scrap}}. 
**You'll also need at least {{IL|Renown: Bohemians}} 5 and {{E}}10, which will not be consumed; and at least {{IL|Touched by Fingerwork}} 5, which will drop by 10 CP.
[[Rooms above a Gambling Den]]:
*[[Bring the celebration home]] for 11 to 70 CP MW (avg:40.5) in exchange for a {{IL|Night on the Town}}, {{IL|Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe|2 x|Appearance=Strangling Willow Absinthe}}, {{IL|Bottle of Greyfields 1879|12 x|Appearance=Greyfields 1879}}, and no more than {{E}}30.
**Requires {{E}}40, but may gain or lose you Echoes.
**Grants a {{IL|Favours: Bohemians|Appearance=Bohemian Favour}}, a {{IL|Confident Smile}} (up to 21), and a little {{IL|Scandal}}.
[[Smoky Flophouse]]:
*[[Ambush Smugglers]] to trade a [[Strong-Backed Labour]] and 3 Docks Favours for 12 CP MW. 
**Also gives {{IL|Bottle of Greyfields 1879|Appearance=Greyfields 1879}}, as long as you succeed in a {{IL|Dangerous}} challenge.
**You'll need to be a {{IL|A Person of Some Importance -|Appearance=PoSI}}, but if you're reading this guide, you probably are!
[[A guest room at the Brass Embassy]]:
*[[An Evening of Wine and Souls]] gives between 81 and 180 CP MW (average 126.5; a {{IL|Luck}} challenge is involved) for a {{IL|Portfolio of Souls}}, a {{IL|Bottle of Fourth City Airag: Year of the Tortoise|Appearance= Bottle of Fourth City Airag}}, {{IL|Muscaria Brandy|2 x}}, and {{IL|Amanita Sherry|2 x}}.
**Note that 5 sherry is required though only two are consumed.
**{{IL|Renown: Hell}} 10 is also required.
**Increases {{IL|Heartless}} by 3 CP up to level 10, and has a chance to grant a {{IL|Favours: Hell|Appearance=Hell Favour}}.
[[Reservation at the Royal Bethlehem]]:
*Taking [[Dinner in your Room]] gives 51-90 CP MW (avg: 70.5) for a {{IL|Bejewelled Lens}}.
**Also gives 1 {{IL|Appalling Secret}}, -1 CP {{IL|Nightmares}}, and +1 CP {{IL|Scandal}}.
[[Premises at the Bazaar]]:
*[[A Private Auction|Host a Private Auction]]  to get 95-140 CP MW (avg: 117.5) (and about {{E}}70 ) for a {{IL|Personal Recommendation}}, a {{IL|Collection of Curiosities}}, and 7 x {{IL|Favours: Society}}.
**Requires {{IL|A Person of Some Importance -|Appearance=PoSI}} and {{IL|Renown: Society}} 20.

===Other opportunity cards===
*[[City Vices: a Rather Decadent Evening]] gives up to +10 CP if you keep {{IL|Scandal}} at 7; costs {{IL|Favours: Bohemians|1}}
*[[A Polite Invitation]] provides quite a bit of CP. For more info, see [[Attending a Party (Guide)]]

==Spending Making Waves==
On occasion, you may have excess Making Waves that you would like to spend before purchasing your next rank of {{IL|Notability}}, or perhaps you're simply content with your current amount of Notability or have already maxed it. Unfortunately, most of these actions are locked to either [[Hallowmas (Guide)|Hallowmas]] or the [[Feast of the Rose (Guide)|Feast of the Rose]].

The following actions below spend varying amounts of {{IL|Making Waves}} CP.
*[[Arrange a Night on the Town]] - From [[Have a Drink at the Bridge Without]] in the [[Bazaar Side-Streets]]. Gives one {{IL|Night on the Town}}. Costs 20CP MW in addition to {{IL|Intriguing Snippet|40 x}} {{IL|Compromising Document|15 x}}
*Various actions from [[The Impertinent Footman]], a card drawn during parties. As parties give a good deal of MW, this is usually not worth contemplating for reducing your excess MW. See [[Attending a Party (Guide)]] for more details.
*Various actions from the card [[Visitors at Hallowmas]]. [[Hallowmas (Guide)|Hallowmas]] only of course.
*[[Bolt the door and hide under the bed]] - From [[Attract a Visitor at Hallowmas]]. Trades 6CP MW for 5CP {{IL|Nightmares}} reduction, but requires [[Hallowmas (Guide)|Hallowmas]].
*[[Visit the Perfumed Pleasure Garden!]] - From [[Celebrate the Feast of the Exceptional Rose!]]. Trades 3CP MW for {{IL|Carnival Ticket|2 x}}. Requires [[Feast of the Rose (Guide)|Feast of the Rose]] of course.
*[[Benefit from flattery at Dante's Grill]] - Gives up to 100CP to another player. You can probably negotiate something in exchange (such as stat-increasing letters or Aid requests). Only non-POSI's can give up their MWs in this way.
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