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2.22 EPA is the return if there were no zee voyage involved — it can’t ever get all the way there, so all you can do is get it as close as possible. There was a discussion of the mechanics here, and there’s even a calculator you can use here: https://repl.it/repls/WellgroomedRepulsiveRay

Also, I snort-laughed at your “nice”, so well played. 😂

I generally use plans a couple different ways:

• To remind myself to make a particular choice if I don't immediately have the actions to play it and I don't want to misclick later
• To save something for later if I don't immediately have the requirements to do it (so I don't forget)
• To keep track of repeatable things I do where I'm kind of passively getting their requirements over time (instead of focusing directly on it) - for example spending favours to raise Renown, turning Airags into >!Vials of Tears of the Bazaar!<, etc (don't worry if you don't understand those though!). Having it in plans lets me easily see if I have the requirements or not

In general Plans are good for, well, planning things. But I've found that using a separate notes app has worked a lot better for more convoluted, multi-step, long-term plans (like ones that take several months), because there's only so much you can write in the Plans tab. As a general spoiler-free overview, I have things in there like how to get certain high-value items, lists of specific opportunity cards I'm looking for for different reasons, how to navigate more complicated areas that I like to do specific steps for, detailed notes on how to most easily get Notability/Making Waves, my own guide/notes for each seasonal event, and more. I like to use Notion because it's free and I can color-code things.

However, don't let all that intimidate you! If you're a brand new player then you probably won't have run into anything yet that is nearly complicated enough to justify outside note-taking. Just remember that the wiki is your friend, and that they have some great player-made guides there! You'll figure out your own preferences for how you want to use Plans and take (or not take) notes as you play the game

There's also this image of the map someone put together (in this post, which has a few other versions too). It doesn't have area names on it, but every visitable area is highlighted/outlined. The part below the spires of the Bazaar is the Bazaar Sidestreets, which you get when you become POSI, and the well/sewers right below that is something unlockable via an Exceptional Story I think (Flute Street?), but not part of the Bazaar afaik.

The server is definitely up and running.

Have you installed any extensions that might prevent access? (Adblockers have sometimes been a problem in the past, also scriptblockers such as Scriptsafe.)

If possible, try a different browser.

I dug a bit into the cost of exchange when paying with a credit card. The cost consists of the wholesale exchange rate of the credit card company (e.g. Visa, Mastercard) and a small fee of the card issuing bank. The exchange rate varies constantly on the global currency market but the bank fee, at least for me, is more constant. The bank may adjust it at times but it's not like it's changing every day (AFAIK, at least my card has it capped at a certain %).

The exchange rate can vary significantly over time, but usually the fluctuations during a shorter timespan are not too significant (some data e.g. here).

The sum presented on the credit card invoice includes both the original sum converted to the native currency and the bank fee lumped together. So the total amount is calculated based on the exchange rate of the transaction date, i.e. the day the seller debits the card, nowadays pretty much close to (but not necessarily exactly) the day you made the purchase.

In the case of Mastercard, if you know your bank's fee (I found mine from the card terms of use on my bank's website), you can estimate the total sum of the transaction using a converter: https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/personal/get-support/convert-currency.html. I got consistent results when I compared it with the similar one I found from my bank's website.

Based on the converter, the total cost for me when buying with Mastercard in GBP is currently at 2.67%. So by guess, in Europe the real cost of paying in different currency might be around 3 % on top of the exchanged sum.

Interesting, here I added counts of multiple signs and for a million runs:

Confronted rivals 7023 times.

EPA: 2.2580848231110426

All Signs: 495508

Single Signs: 314481

Double Signs: 77757

Three or more Signs: 8288

The Sign chances are pretty close to your earlier calculation.

I wrote this for the Silken Thread expedition with pure SBL. Included what I could think of and got for a million runs: ~~Confronted rivals 21183 times.
EPA: 2.101349436519512~~

There were quite some mistakes, hopefully closer to the truth now, as the results are better.
Confronted rivals 7101 times.
Signs: 496432
Actions: 22814370.8
EPA: 2.2585267001972285

I'm around the same level as you and I usually quit at 4. Barely a dent in the stats and a few more attempts isn't really going to up the chances of getting loot that much. There's probably a more data-based response, though - I'm just going based off my intuition.

And it's pronounced &quot;<strong>nay</strong>-der&quot;/&quot;<strong>nay</strong>-deer.&quot;

I'm still in the middle of reading your super interesting post, but I wanted to point out that you could offer your code via an online IDE that'd allow other players to run your code from their browser. I've used repl.it for C++ before, but you can also use it for R scripts.

(There are other sites offered similar services if you don't like this particular one. It's just the one I'm most familiar with.)

You can call yourself Bob and you'll still always be welcome Hannah! (Free tip, but don't call yourself Bob, or people may try to love you.)

Just to expand on this slightly: the header/body pair are Roboto Slab and Roboto, respectively; the site's logo is some flavour of Trajan. Roboto will be familiar to Android users — it's the system font — while Trajan has been a reliable choice for movie posters for the last thirty years.

IIRC, the old site used Helvetica, Arial, or Lucida Grande, in that order, depending on what you had installed, and fell back to your system's default sans-serif, which was the standard font-stack back in 1887.

I just wanted to say that there actually have been a number of chess clubs in London in the 19th century. The lower half of page mentions a few if you need some inspiration...

Personally, I use uBlock. It works for pretty much all browsers on all systems for regular computers. On Android it seems only to work with Firefox and not with Chrome, if I see this correctly. (Although they might have fixed this by now?!)

Apparently, AdBlock has its own browser app. No idea if it's any good, though.

> And I'd never even heard of Kiwi before :)

Here's their project page and their entry on the Google Play store. I hadn't really heard of it before, but it got suggested to me pretty quickly while I was searching the Play Store for Chromium variants.

>ELSIF progress = 28 THEN

It's slightly better to choose bold at 25 progress and cautious at 26 progress, to gain benfit from the 5% chance that the next Airs yields a Sign.

Here's a python version of a Silken Thread expedition simulator:

https://repl.it/@AureliusM/WrathfulEquatorialOperatingenvironment-1

(increase the number in "for i in range(10000):" for greater accuracy, and longer run times), results for 100,000 runs:

>Confronted rivals 723 times. >EPA: 2.2560892608998655 >All Signs: 49291 >Single Signs: 31300 >Double Signs: 7803 >Three or more Signs: 774

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/indiscretion

In this context, from what I know, it's supposed to mean that you're basically close enough to the masters that you discuss things that would be considered embarrassing or awkward when told to a stranger or in an official setting.

On a side note's side note, I discovered https://anonaddy.com some time ago when I absolutely did not want to give out my real email credentials to some service.

You register there and instead of a single address, you get your own ending, i.e. @yourusername.anonaddy.com which transports the mail to your real email box. Then you can give out arbitrary addresses which all work, such as without them having any way to mangle the address (e.g. stripping off the + part) or knowing your real identity. There's also a possibility to deactivate certain recipient addresses from redirecting if they get onto spammers' lists.

I'm not affiliated with them (other than just a user), but I found the service very useful in the spam age.

Theoretically, there shouldn't be much of a difference between a browser on a phone and a browser on a PC.

I assume you've tried this with Chrome? If so, maybe try a different browser. Personally, I like Brave. Firefox is also available for Android.

If you didn't use Chrome, did you install any extensions on the browser you've used that might prevent certain scripts from running? Any kind of ad-blocker, firewall, tracker-blockers, any other privacy-extension?