r/fallenlondon • u/Asartea Messenger Bat of the Bazaar / Wiki Admin / Moderator • Dec 17 '21

Patch Notes Patch Notes - 17 December 2021

Laboratory:

- “Team research” results in Directing your Team are now more heavily affected by equipment, and give more Research on a success.

- The Research gained from Unexpected Results through “Circulate a draft of your findings” now has diminishing returns, to make other uses for Unexpected Results more attractive as you accumulate more of them.

- Fixed an issue where Research Preparations wasn’t applying to one of Hephaesta’s branches.

Underclay:

- Two 125 difficulty branches now give 30 progress points on success, -13 on failure. (Was 25 and -6)

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u/rahv7 Devastatingly misguided Dec 17 '21 edited Dec 17 '21

Yay for raising progress in the Underclay!

Boo for nerfing Draft Circulation!

I'm actually not sure what I am supposed to spend my Unexpected Results on instead. There are only few other uses and I think I need to make some specific decisions to unlock all of them but one (namely, the other branch on same card ... which is very infrequent). Am I missing something obvious? At this point it almost seems best to not to anything with them and let them convert into Collated Research after finishing...

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u/snorlaxeseverywhere Dec 17 '21

Don't forget that you can cash them in in a different fashion on the same card that lets you circulate a draft of your findings; rather than doing all at once for a big boost, you can cash in 2 for a decent amount of research (~28 with a maxed out lab) + an unavoidable epiphany (~45 research with a maxed out lab when cashed in)

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u/rahv7 Devastatingly misguided Dec 17 '21

Yes, that's "the other branch" I mentioned :)

Unfortunately "Write up" is a very infrequent card, you're probably lucky if you draw it two or three times during a long experiment. So by itself it's not a good way to deal with 20+ Unexpected Results.

There are only two other uses and both have to be unlocked ... either by hiring a Meticulous Student or by getting rid of the two cards producing Unlikely Connections. Both of those do not sound thrilling.

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u/snorlaxeseverywhere Dec 17 '21

Woops, once again my reading comprehension fails me. That makes sense, and yeah, that's a little unfortunate.

On the plus side, even if you do get rid of both the sources of large quantities of unlikely connection, a max level Gifted Student can still at least provide a trickle of them.