Schemes Costing Favour

[Mab]

So Arachne and I found out the hard way today that researching schemes costs you 100 favour. In my case, that was actually the sum total of all I’d earned in 2 weeks, and losing it was pretty painful.

I think this is an extreme cost of a scarce resource, that discourages investigative RP and interaction with schemes; surely that can’t be intended from a game design perspective? It punishes proactivity.

100 favour is the same cost as a charon coin, and close to the cost of a charm.

Please consider changing it back to costing influence.

[Entropy]

Ewwwww. Hopefully that’s just an error. Make sure you petition it to be sure. It may not get you the favor back, but at least it would keep favor from being taken across so many characters. If nothing else, it will see that Help Order gets updated, because currently it still says 500 Influence is the cost, which is far, far more reasonable and representative of the actual act (influencing NPCs to gain information).

I really do think that has to be a mistake. If it isn’t… Schemes are just going to be pointless/annoying/constant. No one is gonna dump 100 favor on research for every stupid scheme that drops, and thus, no one is going to thwart them, so no one will run them for potential karma. There is no incentive at any level at that point.

[Mab]

According to “help schemes”, this isn’t a bug but an updated feature of the new version; I just missed it in the documentation, and as you say, it shows up differently in order.

Personally, if I’d known, I wouldn’t have ordered a research, and I don’t see myself ever doing so again. The cost is just too steep for the price of seeking to engage with stories other players are telling; which IMO, is something that should be incentivised, not taxed.

[Thomas]

The idea of spending favor isn’t outrageous, but 100 favor seems too high given the favor economy. Given how scarce a resource favor is, even spending 5 or 10 favor is something that someone will want to jealousy guard. For at least some factions, favor is impossible to earn at present, and for others, it may trickle in in small amounts.

Right now, I don’t know how scheme clues work at all. I have a scheme clue, but how do I give it to someone else in RP? I can’t find documentation on that issue at all.

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