Optimize Opportunity Deck (Guide)

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What needs work: Many cards in Fallen London removed their location limit. Favours grind detail is outdated and should be changed to work with Jericho, not Tribute. Discussion of Remote Address vs five-card lodgings. Should also include section on trimming the deck with the Weasel of Woe, e.g. for grinding Dreams or Carpenter's Granddaughter 777.

Introduction[edit]

Most favours are sourced from drawing cards, so more favours come with more cards which yield favours. That's why the opportunity deck in Fallen London should be managed especially when you're engaging in favour-based courses like Favour-based Tribute. Here are some reference that may help you optimize your Opportunity Deck.

For new players and those who need comprehensive guidance, see Vainfire's Guide to London Optimization

cards with favours[edit]

Item[edit]

Some items unlock cards with favours. Here are some relatively easy-to-obtain items, listed in order of game progression and acquisition difficulty.

See Opportunity Items (Guide) for more information.

Attributes[edit]

Some cards with favours only appear when your attributes are in a specific range. So have a specific outfit when drawing. The recommended attributes when drawing are orderly Watchful 69-80 or 0-68 or >190, Persuasive 28-68 or 200-229, Shadowy 28-44 or >190, Dangerous >118.


Storylet[edit]

Some storylets in specific progress unlock cards with favours.

cards without favours[edit]

Item[edit]

Some items only unlock cards without favours.

See Opportunity Items (Guide) for more information.

Menaces[edit]

It's always good to keep menaces low.

Attributes[edit]

Some cards without favours only appear when your attributes are in a specific range. But in most cases, they are hard to avoid. Here are some non profitable ones for reference only.


Storylet[edit]

Some storylets go through cards. Finish them so that you can get rid of them. Here are some examples.

some cards that can't be dealt with[edit]

You know, some less profitable cards are just there no matter how hard you try. Even they can be locked theoretically, the conditions are still too hard or just impossible to fulfill.


an example of optimized Opportunity Deck[edit]

Card Frequency Value Favour for Tribute Note
Altars and Alms-Houses: the Church 100 -0.1 1
Bandages and Dust: The Tomb-Colonies 100
Burning Shadows: the Devils of London 100
By the River's Side: the Docks 100 -0.1 1
Court and Cell: the Constables 100
Gunpowder and Zeal: the Revolutionaries 100
Park and Palace: Society 100 -1.15 1
Slime and Amber: the Rubbery Men 100
The Alleys of London: the Criminals 100 -0.65 1
The Demi-Monde: Bohemians 100 -1.85 1
The Roof-Tops: Urchins 100
Whispers from the Surface: The Great Game 100
A Task from the Cheesemonger 100
A Commission from the Cheesemonger 100
A Job from the Cheesemonger 100
An Assignment from the Cheesemonger 100 1
More Larks with the Young Stags 100 -5 3
A Visit 100 3.45 2
Just got in before my deadline, dear 100 15 0.7 FATE1 action = 5 E
Coffee with the Last Constable 50
Bringing the revolution 100
A Day with God's Editors 100 -0.5 1
A day at the races 100 0 1
A devil's taken a shine to you 100 0 1
What will you do with your Hungover Terrier?  100 0 1
Attend to Your Spouses 50 0 1
An Encounter with Tristram Bagley 50 0 1
A merry sort of crime 50 0 1
The Calendrical Confusion of 1899 100 1 1
The Heron Tower: Events at a Lair in the Marshes 100 -0.29 1
City Vices: Orthographic Infection 100
A Moment's Peace 100
An Afternoon of Good Deeds? 100
The Law's Long Arm 100
A Restorative 100
A Dream of Roses 100
An unusual wager 100
Mr Wines is holding a sale! 100
Wanted: Reminders of Brighter Days 100
A Presumptuous Little Opportunity 100
Weather at last 100
The Northbound Parliamentarian 100
The Paronomastic Newshound 100
The Awful Temptation of Money 100
Trailing the Affluent Photographer 100
A bewildering salon 100
A Polite Invitation 100
A past benefactor 100
The Soft-Hearted Widow 100
Give a Gift! A commotion in the Square of Lofty Words 100
A Public Lecture 100
One's public 100
The Geology of Winewound 100
A visit from Slowcake's Amanuensis 50
Mirrors and Clay 100
The Seekers of the Garden 100 -1.19 2
Devices and Desires 100
The Cities that Fell 100
City Vices: a Rather Decadent Evening 100
An Implausible Penance 100
A fine day in the Flit 20
The Capering Relicker and Gulliver are Outside in the Street 20
The Coquettish Relicker and Mathilde are Making the Rounds 20
The Curt Relicker and Montgomery are Moving Quietly Past 20
The Shivering Relicker and Pinnock are Trundling By 20
A dream about a window at night 1 20 assuming red card frequency is 20%
A dream of a dark, dark room 50
A dream about an angry mountain 20
A dream about the mist 20
A dusty bookshop 10
A little omen 10
A disgraceful spectacle 2 10 12.5 0
A voice from a well 10
Discordant Ripples 120 44.5 6 card; Frozen Thoughts
sum 6120 65.62 22.7
sum those with favours for tribute 1750 8.62
count 79 25 19

Therefore, the EPA of Favour-based Tribute here is

\frac{62.5*1.32*13-64.8-12+8.62*70/22.7+11*3}{3+13*4+70/22.7*19+12+11+3}=7.56

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Start with 0 x Tribute, use 1 x Winsome Dispossessed Orphan and 30 x Lucky Weasel, and conbine with Piracy (Guide) (suppose 3 EPA). Sell 10 Night-Whisper in one week.

an example of optimized Opportunity Deck in Upper River[edit]

card Frequency
A Disillusioned Fungiculturalist 80
A Jurisdictional Dispute 100
An Unattended Mirror 50
Halfway to Hell 100
Intervene in an Attack 80
Listen to Rumours of Smuggling 100
Respectable Passengers 100
The Railway and the Great Game 100
The Urchins' Games 100
Which meeting? 100
Your Very Own Hellworm 200
sum 1110
ratio of hellworm card 0.281690141
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