[Guide] Opportunities & Excitements

[Crayola]

Setting Incitements and Opportunities

I think I’ve figured out (maybe) how incitements and opportunities work.

The TLDR is that Opportunities — with ‘make opportunity’ are the ‘where’ and ‘what’ of what you are doing, while Incitements made with ‘make incitement’ are the ‘who’ and ‘why’ someone would target you while you are doing it. If you want to match to someone else’s opportunity, you need to have ‘lookfor active’ on. If you want to have someone match to one of your opportunities, you need to have ‘lookfor support’ on.

This description may be wrong, as it is based on my experience and the experience of other players, but it’s a start.

MATCHING

When you are looking to match someone as the aggressor for a social, courier, or predatory patrol, you need to be set ‘lookfor active’. If you want to be targeted for one of those patrols, you need to be set ‘lookfor support.’ Social patrols (type social in ‘make incitement’) just require the victim (person set ‘lookfor support’) to have an opportunity set and active, while predator and courier patrols require the victim to have BOTH an opportunity and an incitement active.

When a potential aggressor matches someone on a courier or predatory patrol, they see something like:

Possible Incitements:
[1] John is a tourist from upstate New York who really
does not belong in New Haven, because it is not, in fact,
just Las Vegas but driving distance.
Possible Opportunities:
[1] Golden Sands Casino Bar – There’s a out of town tourist
at the casino bar. He’s had a cocktail too many and locked
himself out of his room.

[2] Haven Beach – This out of town finance bro is taking a
jog down the beach when no one else is around.

Use opportunity launch (opportunity number) (incitement number) to start.

Note that while aggressors — people with ‘lookfor active’ — will get a choice to start a patrol, targets — people with ‘lookfor support’ — will get pulled out of whatever RP they are in, have their clothes changed to the outfit in the opportunity, and be moved to the location of the opportunity without warning.

SETTING UP OPPORTUNITIES

When setting up opportunities, you are setting up the ‘where’ and ‘what’ you are doing when someone matches you. To set the location, you must be in the location you want the opportunity to occur at. You do not need to be wearing the outfit you want to set, though; you can set that using the short name from ‘outfit list’.

You can set a specific hour for the opportunity to happen during, or you can just type ‘hour’ and it can happen at any time.

If you set ‘predator’ to yes, it means you can be the target of a predator patrol in this opportunity if the aggressor also has an incitement. If you set ‘courier’ to yes, it means you can be the target of a courier patrol in this opportunity with an incitement. If you set ‘social’ to yes, you can be the target of a social patrol.

Social patrols have two subtypes, ‘rescue’ and ‘adversarial’. These have no mechanical effect, but signal to the person joining the scene if this should be friendly (rescue type) or not (adversarial type).

SETTING UP INCITEMENTS

When setting up incitements, you only need a description and an eligibility. Eligibilities are ‘anyone’, ‘character name’, ‘faction name.’ The description is why that person/group might want to target you.

Incitements do not match with opportunities, so an incitement should (probably) be generic of that it could make sense in any number of scenarios, like ‘John is trying to find information on members of the Last Vigil’ for an incitement to Vigil members, or ‘John is an out of town tourist who will forget what happens to him’ for an incitement to everyone.

You can use incitements to limit who can engage in more coded aggressive patrols against you by only making active incitements with people you trust.

FINAL THOUGHTS

I do not know if you need an opportunity and incitement created to be the aggressor, but you definitely do to be the target. Regardless, best practices is for everyone to have at least one incitement and probably multiple opportunities created.

Once again, the TLDR: for social patrols, ‘make opportunity’. For predatory and courier patrols, ‘make opportunity’ and ‘make incitement.’

If you want to be the predator, you need to be ‘lookfor active’. If you want to be the target, you need to be ‘lookfor support.’

So, make opportunties and incitements today!

– Credits: POF Thomas, with the help of POF Arachne

[Crayola]

I typoed the title. I can’t fix it, alas.

[Luka]

Very helpful, thank you! I finally have the motivation to actually set these up now it’s written out ez like this

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