Editing Optimize Opportunity Deck (Guide)

{{GuideNeedsWork|Many cards in Fallen London removed their location limit.}}
==Introduction==
Most favours are sourced from drawing cards, so more favours come with more cards which yield favours. That's why the opportunity deck in {{IL|Fallen London}} should be managed especially when you're engaging in favour-based courses like [[Money-Making/Lategame#Favour-based Tribute|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 [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lA5Jevejwamm5-5J2iwuHKL52YMI-5BTFTrk9tMu8l4/edit Vainfire's Guide to London Optimization]

==cards with favours==
===Item===
Some items unlock cards with favours. Here are some relatively easy-to-obtain items, listed in order of game progression and acquisition difficulty.
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*{{IL|A Clandestine Rendezvous at Watchmaker's Hill}} pet
*{{IL|Sulky Bat}}
*{{IL|Key to a Smoky Flophouse Dormitory}}
*{{IL|Key to a Lair in the Marshes}}
*{{IL|Deed to a Decommissioned Steamer}}
*{{IL|Key to a Brass Embassy Guest Room}}
*{{IL|Acquaintance: the Regretful Soldier}}
*{{IL|Renown: Hell}} > 4 unlock [[A devil's taken a shine to you]], this may be bad.
*{{IL|Renown: Revolutionaries}} > 4 unlock [[Plotting against the Masters]] and then [[Bringing the revolution]]
*{{IL|Key to a Handsome Townhouse}}
*{{IL|Velocipede}}
*{{IL|Membership of God's Editors}}
*{{IL|Clay Sedan Chair}}
*{{IL|A Bewildering Procession of Companions, Lovers, Suitors, and Paramours}}
*{{IL|The Young Stags' Club}}
*{{IL|Winsome Dispossessed Orphan}}
*{{IL|Alluring Accomplice}}
*{{IL|Gang of Hoodlums}} Not very good because of the cost and its card which gives 2CP Suspicion. Also this can't be removed once possessed.
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See [[Opportunity Items (Guide)]] for more information.

===Attributes===
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 {{IL|Watchful}} 69-80 or 0-68 or >190, {{IL|Persuasive}} 28-68 or 200-229, {{IL|Shadowy}} 28-44 or >190, {{IL|Dangerous}} >118. 
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*{{IL|Watchful}} 69-106 [[Medical Emergency]]
*{{IL|Watchful}} 69-106 [[Investigate the Topsy King's court]]
*{{IL|Persuasive}} 69-106 [[Graduate Advice]]
*{{IL|Persuasive}} 81-118 [[Attend a Salon at the Palace]]
*{{IL|Dangerous}} 69-106 [[The Fallen Angel]]
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===Storylet===
Some storylets in specific progress unlock cards with favours. 
*[[An Agent of the Cheesemonger]] 1-5
*[[Family and Law]] < 4

==cards without favours==
===Item===
Some items only unlock cards without favours.
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*{{IL|Reprehensible Lizard}} Not very profitable.
*{{IL|Key to your Rooms above a Bookshop}} If you already have it, you can [[Shelter a newcomer to London|loan]] it out, and so can other keys.
*{{IL|Key to a Rooftop Shack}} yeilds favours but consumes too
*{{IL|Key to a Cottage by the Observatory}}
*{{IL|Key to your Rooms above a Gambling Den}}
*{{IL|Proscribed Material}} > 99
*{{IL|Respectable Landau}} If you already have one, you can loan it out too.
*{{IL|Eyeless Skull}}
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See [[Opportunity Items (Guide)]] for more information.

===Menaces===
It's always good to keep menaces low.
*{{IL|Wounds}} > 1 [[A Restorative]]
*{{IL|Nightmares}} > 0 [[City Vices: Orthographic Infection]]
*{{IL|Nightmares}} > 1 [[A Moment's Peace]]
*{{IL|Nightmares}} > 4 [[A merry gentleman]]
*{{IL|Nightmares}} > 5 [[A dream about a market-place crowded with dead men 2]], [[A dream about a burning river 3]], [[A dream about a calm sea]]
*{{IL|Scandal}} > 1 [[An Afternoon of Good Deeds?]]
*{{IL|Suspicion}} > 1 [[The Law's Long Arm]]
*{{IL|Suspicion}} > 4 [[The vigilant gentlemen in blue]]

===Attributes===
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.
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*{{IL|Watchful}} > 24 [[The Shivering Relicker and Pinnock are Trundling By]] Very Infrequent. Other Relickers appear when that attribute is more than 24 too.
*{{IL|Watchful}} 69-106 [[Consulting detective required for government work]]
*{{IL|Watchful}} 69-106 [[Property most intellectual]]
*{{IL|Watchful}} 69-106 [[The Eye and the Camera]]
*{{IL|Watchful}} 81-118 [[Publish your scientific work]]
*{{IL|Watchful}} 81-118 [[Expedition to Winewound Heath]]
*{{IL|Watchful}} 81-118 [[The colour of currency]]
*{{IL|Watchful}} 81-118 [[Tea with the Inspector]] require {{IL|Renown: Constables|5}}.
*{{IL|Watchful}} > 99 [[All fear the Overgoat!]]
*{{IL|Watchful}} > 104 [[The Geology of Winewound]]
*{{IL|Watchful}} 105-190 [[Investigate Doctor Schlomo]] can reduce 3CP Nightmares.
*{{IL|Persuasive}} < 28 [[The Poet of the Streets]]
*{{IL|Persuasive}} > 68 [[One's public]]
*{{IL|Persuasive}} 69-106 [[The marriage of inconvenience]]
*{{IL|Persuasive}} 69-106 [[The notable citizen]]
*{{IL|Persuasive}} 81-118 [[A matter of business]]
*{{IL|Persuasive}} 81-118 [[Attend a society funeral]]
*{{IL|Persuasive}} 81-118 [[The Ambassador's Ball]]
*{{IL|Persuasive}} 81-118 [[Caligula's Coffee House]] rare success gives 1 [[Darkdrop Coffee]]
*{{IL|Persuasive}} 105-200 [[City Vices: ask the Sardonic Music-Hall Singer to help you]] require [[Acquaintance: the Sardonic Music-Hall Singer]] without [[A Remote Address]]. So do the next.
*{{IL|Persuasive}} 105-200 [[City Vices: help the Sardonic Music-Hall Singer]]
*{{IL|Persuasive}} > 229 [[The Machinations of the Masters]]
*{{IL|Shadowy}} < 28 [[Feasting on the Remains]]
*{{IL|Shadowy}} < 28 [[The Stray]] requires {{IL|Dangerous}} < 28.
*{{IL|Shadowy}} 45-75 [[Rob a Brass Embassy Courier]]
*{{IL|Shadowy}} 45-75 [[Work the carnival]]
*{{IL|Shadowy}} 69-106 [[Robbing the Ambassador's Ball]]
*{{IL|Shadowy}} 69-106 [[Memoirs of a butler]]
*{{IL|Shadowy}} 81-118 [[A new piece in the Game]]
*{{IL|Shadowy}} 81-118 [[The little people]]
*{{IL|Shadowy}} 81-118 [[Spy on the Black Ribbon]]
*{{IL|Shadowy}} 105-190 [[Reeducating Lyme]]
*{{IL|Shadowy}} 105-190 [[Revisit the Theosophisticals]]
*{{IL|Shadowy}} 105-190 [[The Phantom of the Antimacassar]]
*{{IL|Dangerous}} 69-106 [[The young buck]]
*{{IL|Dangerous}} 69-106 [[The marvellous contrivance]]
*{{IL|Dangerous}} 69-106 [[The assassin]]
*{{IL|Dangerous}} 69-106 [[Race across the river]]
*{{IL|Dangerous}} 81-118 [[Bounty Hunting]]
*{{IL|Dangerous}} 81-118 [[The Parthenaeum (Card)]]
*{{IL|Dangerous}} 81-118 [[The tomb-colonist's dogs]]
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===Storylet===
Some storylets go through cards. Finish them so that you can get rid of them. Here are some examples.
*[[Dreams (Guide)|Dreams]]
*[[Attending to the Needs of a Singular Plant]]
*[[PoSI Item Crafting]]
*[[In Search of a Stiff Drink]]
*[[Myrrh-Scented Rose]]
*[[A Nocturnal Visitor to the Palace Cellars]] The storylet starts with {{IL|Shadowy}} 69-106.
==some cards that can't be dealt with==
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.
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*[[An unusual wager]]
*[[Mr Wines is holding a sale!]]
*[[Wanted: Reminders of Brighter Days]]
*[[A Presumptuous Little Opportunity]]
*[[:Category:City Vices|City Vices]] This can be removed if you live in [[Lodgings#3 Opportunity cards in hand (Remote Address)|a remote place]] or choose some heartless options like [[Ensure she never troubles you again]].
*[[Weather at last]]
*[[The Northbound Parliamentarian]]
*[[The Awful Temptation of Money]]
*[[Trailing the Affluent Photographer]]
*[[A bewildering salon]] This can be removed with Fate.
*[[A Polite Invitation]](conditionally) Not profitable for late players.
*[[A past benefactor]] give second chances, yet not profitable.
*[[The Soft-Hearted Widow]]
*[[Mirrors and Clay]], [[Devices and Desires]], [[The Cities that Fell]]
*[[An Implausible Penance]] Unlock with 1 {{IL|Favours: Criminals}}
*[[A dream about a window at night 1]]
*[[A dream about the mist]]
*[[A fine day in the Flit]]
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==an example of optimized Opportunity Deck==
{| class="article-table" 
!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 ||  ||  || 
|-
| [[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 || {{FontFate}}1 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 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 ||  ||  || 
|-
| [[Mirrors and Clay]] || 100 ||  ||  || 
|-
| [[The Seekers of the Garden]] || 100 || -1.19 || 2 || 
|-
| [[Devices and Desires]] || 100 ||  ||  || 
|-
| [[The Cities that Fell]] || 100 ||  ||  || 
|-
| [[An Implausible Penance]] || 100 ||  ||  || 
|-
| [[A fine day in the Flit]] || 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 ||  ||  || 
|-
| [[Discordant Ripples]] || 120 ||  ||  || Very profitable, yet not considered here for now.
|-
| sum || 4950 || 8.62 || 21.7 || On average, 49.5 draws and 18 actions is 8.62 {{e}} and 21.7 favours for Tribute. 
|}
Therefore, the EPA of [[Money-Making/Lategame#Favour-based Tribute|Favour-based Tribute]] here is
<math>
\frac{85*13-64.8-12+8.62*70/21.7+11*3}{13+13*4+70/21.7*18+12+11+3}=7.30
</math>

Start with {{IL|Tribute|0 x}}, use {{IL|Winsome Dispossessed Orphan|1 x}} and {{IL|Lucky Weasel|30 x}}, and conbine with [[Piracy (Guide)]] (suppose 3 EPA).

==an example of optimized Opportunity Deck in Upper River==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! 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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 ==an example of optimized Opportunity Deck==
-{| class="wikitable sortable"
+{| class="article-table"
-|-
+!Card
-!Card !! Frequency !! Value !! Favour for Tribute !! Note
+!Frequency
+!Value
+!Favour for Tribute
+!Note
 |-
 | [[Altars and Alms-Houses: the Church]] || 100 || -0.1 || 1 ||
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 |-
 | [[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 ||
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 |-
 | [[The Northbound Parliamentarian]] || 100 ||  ||  ||
-|-
-| [[The Paronomastic Newshound]] || 100 ||  ||  ||
 |-
 | [[The Awful Temptation of Money]] || 100 ||  ||  ||
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 |-
 | [[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 ||  ||  ||
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 |-
 | [[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%
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 | [[A dream about the mist]] || 20 ||  ||  ||
 |-
-| [[A dusty bookshop]] || 10 ||  ||  ||
+| [[Discordant Ripples]] || 120 ||  ||  || Very profitable, yet not considered here for now.
-|-
-| [[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 ||
+| sum || 4950 || 8.62 || 21.7 || On average, 49.5 draws and 18 actions is 8.62 {{e}} and 21.7 favours for Tribute.
 |}
 Therefore, the EPA of [[Money-Making/Lategame#Favour-based Tribute|Favour-based Tribute]] here is
+<math>
+\frac{85*13-64.8-12+8.62*70/21.7+11*3}{13+13*4+70/21.7*18+12+11+3}=7.30
+</math>
-\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
+Start with {{IL|Tribute|0 x}}, use {{IL|Winsome Dispossessed Orphan|1 x}} and {{IL|Lucky Weasel|30 x}}, and conbine with [[Piracy (Guide)]] (suppose 3 EPA).
-The Math module is dead:
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-Start with {{IL|Tribute|0 x}}, use {{IL|Winsome Dispossessed Orphan|1 x}} and {{IL|Lucky Weasel|30 x}}, and conbine with [[Piracy (Guide)]] (suppose 3 EPA). Sell 10 {{IL|Night-Whisper}} in one week.
 ==an example of optimized Opportunity Deck in Upper River==