Downtimes = Talents Think of them just like talents, because the only thing that will ever be done before game is the emailing of letters, postage spends, and influence spends. Talents sent before game: - Bid influence spends for Gather Rumor/Spread Rumor - Write letters (include if you are using a postage spend or an influence spend instead of postage) - Influence spends to do all your other (underworld/political/academic/military) deeds Influence can be used INSTEAD of postage to ensure safe passage, this will obviously only work if you generate influence (Standing). For those who do not have money, please look into getting the talent called “Entrepreneur”. With the addition of postage, anyone can write letters, with or without influence. As for the cost to send your letters using influence, this is most likely going to be dependent upon where you are sending the letter and John will have to let you know. If you haven’t purchased postage (yet), start flexing those RP skills and make bargains with your fellow Solacians, get paid for your services, barter with goods. Just remember, you may not get immediate responses if you send a letter with Postage. The Celestine have handled all mail that comes and goes from Solace (did you ever wonder why all your mail is delivered by Trint?), as times have made travel rough (war and all), they’ve had to ask for payment to cover the costs of losses and the danger (no one wants to see Trint get hurt!). Letters aren’t a safe business ladies and gentleman, BE CAREFUL OUT THERE. These are not considered part of your downtime spends. Nathan – your point about not using Trint or a human postal system will most likely need to be worked out with John, as far as I know, all mail is done through the Celestine system. If not, then I’m sure you’re absolutely correct and kinks will be worked out. Darin – I have no problem with your suggestion, that’s up to Miss Trint! Also remember to look for other PCs who may sell you postage or other NPCs who may be carrying it as well. John – Yes, the Celestine run the mail predominantly. Political influence could be like having a guard escort the mail, military may work the same. Underworld may be that you send it with assassins? I think it’s safe to say, in this case, you will want to make sure you have the RIGHT influence. The current downtimes you have directly correspond to the Talents that you can bid at check-in. Example: If you have 2 downtimes, you can bid 2 downtimes at check-in (so if you used to send in two downtime actions before game, they now only occur at check-in). If you are looking to refund, I believe that this works by just telling Angela you want to take away a downtime and put the points somewhere else DURING character spend emails, don’t really think you have to ask for a refund. (If I’m wrong you can give me an arm punch :D ) If you were previously spending your downtimes to help with actions solicited by mods (example: when we needed to plant a ton of a trees for Redthorn), unless you are spending influence to get a response, RP’ing these instances in game will be more than sufficient, as they are mod based (it increases the depth of the mod). Or you can still bid them at check-in if you believe it will yield something useful (like resources, objects, etc). Check-in Talents (examples): - Alchemy: Downtime spend required - Scouting: (directional; ex: scouting to the north, the south, outside of the town, inside of the town etc) Downtime spend required - Mining: Downtime spend required - Herbalism: Downtime spend required - Gardening: Downtime spend required - Crafting: Downtime spend required Talents bid during events, the new additions (examples): - Prayer (no longer requires downtimes, you bid it like you would tracking – you can do this once per game, RP for 30mins) No Downtime required - Research (this is what Greater Lore was renamed to. The research talent will require an INC source to do your resource, so tagged book props typically. Gather info from NPCs, fellow PCs too, for 30 mins. Then bring this information to staff) No Downtime required - Prophetic Dreaming (responses are now done from a “drawing” of relevant dreams that will relate to game, its more of a passive ability – Still in contention: if you can use influence spends to gear your dreams in a specific direction) No Downtime required
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:29:04 +0000
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