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You get a bit higher contributions for things which split contributions and when you have an item obviously don’t have to choose between your groups when contributing it so you’re likely to have higher contributions in your group if you’re single faction. On the other hand you can only get rewards from one group as well.

There’s no hidden mechanics or anything though so the benefits or drawbacks are pretty much just what you’d expect.

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You cannot be sent to the clinic.

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Fatecrafting changes some aspect of someone’s history but you can’t really pick the results. Like you can’t fate craft someone into being a Vegetarian but you can fatecraft them into being raised by vegetarians.

New identity allows you to pick how someone is today, rather than just change something in their past with less predictable results.

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You need engineering five to create things that are more advanced than what exists, but if you’re asking about things like reflavouring bombs or something then sure. Difficult to answer without more information.

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Both the individual and the group is stored against the rows so both? As in the group political capital pool is made up all the individuals who’re in that group summed together.

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Having a party or something can’t increase the cost, the only way you owning something could increase the cost is if you own multiple properties of the same type in the same borough.

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I don’t know what would cause that and it’s difficult to investigate without more specifics.

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I can see in the logs that people are losing invitation over time as they RP etc, so nobody is ‘stuck’

I suppose one thing I’d mention is the type of RP you do also matters, the same weekly RPxp code will also look at how much of your rp represents mundanity and reduce your invitation accordingly or increase hollow if you’re high tier, and how much of your RP involves ‘seeking corruption’ and boost invitation accordingly so that also matters.

The system is also pretty slow in general when it comes to moving up/down from RP and as I’ve said before the specific point of bargain is supposed to be for people who want their invitation to be higher.

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There’s a visible room tag when you’re in a room with an ATM so you should be able to find them in game.

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Generally, if someone else is taking the coded hit that’s fine, although maybe not if you’re really making it so they have no choice.
Mind controlling around it isn’t fine.
Hurting vNPCs, RPing property damage etc all wouldn’t be ok.
Don’t think any of those mist-based strategies would work and criting is already the same penalty as killing but the general thrust of just trying to get someone killed through some other mechanic though wouldn’t be ok.

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It still exists, I’ll likely add ways it see it through dreamworld scoresheets.

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It’s not an exception really. Angelborn and demonborn can’t tell which desires or dreads are theirs and which are external but they are often still aware academically they they do experience other people’s desires or whatever.

I see probing as say an angelborn deliberately trying to quiet their own mind and desires as much as possible, like in a meditative way because by ‘dampening’ that signal they’ll get a clearer signal from others and the internal can represent more complex wants or fears etc that might be disceranable in that way.

Functionally though it still works the same, the angelborn just wants what the target wants and they still don’t know if their attempt actually succeeded or it’s their own projections/imaginings.

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The echo just means the person you send it to rated it and the system processed it. You don’t get karma from this you get banked karma like from a reward, so you’ll get more karma next time you gain some.

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Yes your character is supposed to be in the scene. You won’t be punished if you can’t find a way to do that or something but I don’t think it’s usually that hard to come up with an excuse for why your character is involved in some way or another most of the time.

It also just makes the game more interesting, if it’s a PC you never met now your PCs have a connection from that time you were busy breaking into an enemies house and ended up interrupting them being tempted by a demon or whatever it is, which is generally more interesting than encounters which kind of just vanish into the ether once they’re over.

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As of several weeks ago now if you do faction info and do have your trusts restricted for some reason (like vampire human feeding/werewolf shifting) it will tell you why.

No, T3-1 is treated the same as a T2 in the code.

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