Avatar also unlocks our skills, which are currently past the cap so we can't even pick up social skills if we grabbed the traits for them.
Efficiency and opportunity cost is not the be all and end all. One point of legend saved is not a big deal in the long run. It is an especially bad argument to use that as a reason to abandon Fear.
From the amberpedia, higher avatar "ncreases the cost of regular function", while "higher influence allows the spirit to partake in expeditions from shrines more cheaply, and, in conjunction with Faith and population of influenced areas, affects DE/turn positively". I think the latter is better at the moment--but i also fully intend to strategic vote my way to another more popular plan when the lock gets closer (@Powerofmind when tomorrow is the lock likely to be btw?)
Fear Spirits are all about rapidly producing lots of DE AND Legend. We strike hard we spark Fear when they realize there IS something in the water.
Probably rather late, maybe 7 PM ET.
Ahh--so both higher avatar and higher influence would reduce the DE cost of the quest action?
The issue is mostly that you guys still haven't stabilized a spirit type yet. The feargoers are afraid of being voted into insignificance (and from where I sit it doesn't seem out of the question) and can't vote upgrades (and shouldn't vote upgrades, considering the Feast on Terror mechanic obsoletes it as soon as they get their 0 quiescence Fear attribute).
Yes.
Basically the cost has two elements:
We have until tomorrow evening EST apparently, we have time to throw things out before consolidating
(to clarify, when i wake up tomorrow morning i intend to consolidate to the strongest faith plan)
Probably. Just poor timing for introducing the experiment, since circumstances screw the results.
Considering you will never be able to direct buys after you pick up Fear 1, why leave the extra 2 free quiescence years to vanish? I'd be remiss if I didn't tell you that obviously you can't get a sleep-time discount when you don't sleep.
Could we potentially use those extra points to increase the odds of particular traits/attributes? Not outright buying them but maybe an extra 5% or something similar?
Well yes but look I hate fear because as soon as Harzivan went fear he became bat shit insane I do not want us to go down that route plus I hate the randomnes of fear also fear in general. So most of my argument boils down to me just not wanting to play a fear spirit.
I guess... technically I could allow it? I mean it's not like this is actually a PC game despite the theming, I have some latitude with the rules, but, why wait for something later you could have today? I'd just like to understand the reasoning.
Just go sleep for upgrades already. Going into Fear without any significant means of inducing Fear besides Roil is trouble.
Why? It's a distinctly terrible exchange. Just buy an Attribute if nothing else.
I already laid out a possible upgrade plan to best recover the sphere. Go raise Avatar until we can actually lift the sphere a bit.
