A Scholar of the Correspondence (Guide)/Calculations

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Publishing a Newspaper takes 18.5 actions (take a look at the respective guide), and if you can reach 217 (modified) , with a High Outlandish Edition the payout is not just but also , speeding up the process. Due to Newspaper mechanics, the required is only reachable if you opened a station at Jericho Locks (the second station). If you haven't, go with other types of copies, whichever one you can get most of, as the Journal gain scales with the amount of copies you gather. If you have high enough , the lost extra Implications won't make too big a difference.

You don't strictly need 217 (modified) for this to work. The Newspaper works in a way that the amount of Journals you get scales with the amount of copy you gathered. If you fail a few checks, you still get a good amount of Journals, and this process simply takes longer.

The approximate amount of publishes needed to acquire the needed materials can be seen here if you had none of the resources to being with (NoP stand for Number of Publishes), provided you have 217 , and always publish the Most Outlandish Edition, taking into account the excess generation of Correspondence Plaques when up-converting and the extra Implications from the Newspaper:

Newspaper Publishes needed for required items by specific whole SotC level
Current SotC 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
NoP to 21 38 37 37 36 34 33 32 30 28 25 23 20 17 13 10 6
NoP to 20 34 33 32 31 30 29 27 25 23 21 18 16 12 9 5
NoP to 19 29 28 28 27 26 24 23 21 19 17 14 11 8 5
NoP to 18 25 25 24 23 22 21 19 17 15 13 11 8 4
NoP to 17 22 22 21 20 19 17 16 14 12 10 7 4
NoP to 16 19 19 17 17 16 14 12 11 9 6 4
NoP to 15 16 15 15 14 13 12 10 8 6 4
NoP to 14 13 13 12 11 10 9 7 5 3
NoP to 13 12 10 10 9 8 6 5 3
NoP to 12 9 9 8 7 6 4 3
NoP to 11 8 7 6 5 4 3
NoP to 10 6 6 5 3 2

(This assumes having 217 and that the resources are piled up to the limit and turned in all at once and you started with nothing. Otherwise, the actual act of using them provides which could potentiality be turned into Correspondence Plaques or even Aeolian Screams, and this isn't taken into account.)

The combined action cost of publishing, converting, and cashing-in to reach a desired level from a specific whole starting point can be seen below (again, provided that the requirements are met, and Outlandish Editions are being used):

Action costs of reaching specific whole SotC levels, using the Newspaper
Current SotC 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Actions to 21 1030 1002.5 993.5 964 914 881.5 847 793 735 660.5 601.5 521 438.5 336.5 253 147
Actions to 20 921 894.5 868 837.5 807 773.5 721.5 667.5 609.5 553.5 474 413 313 229.5 124.5
Actions to 19 797.5 770 762 732.5 701 649 615.5 561.5 504.5 446.5 368 288.5 207 122.5
Actions to 18 693.5 684.5 658 628.5 597 564.5 511.5 457.5 399.5 343.5 283.5 204 103
Actions to 17 609 603 574.5 544 513.5 461.5 428 373 318 259 181.5 102
Actions to 16 529.5 520.5 473.5 462.5 432 382 327 291.5 235.5 160 99
Actions to 15 449 421.5 413.5 383 352.5 319 267 212 155 98
Actions to 14 369.5 363.5 334 304.5 273 240.5 188.5 133.5 78.5
Actions to 13 331 285 277 246.5 216 165 130.5 77.5
Actions to 12 257.5 248.5 219 191.5 160 109 74.5
Actions to 11 221 194.5 166 135.5 106 73.5
Actions to 10 167 160 131.5 83.5 52

(The .5 actions come from getting 2 x  Whirring Contraptions from Wilmot's End in the Searching out a Missing Woman carousel for the newspaper. It takes 11 actions to get 2 Contraptions, so it takes 5.5 actions to get a single one (on paper). So the true action cost can be made by adding 5.5 to the numbers that end with .5)

(For comparison a full day in reality is 144 actions if you use all of them.)

While these numbers are accurate for the mentioned conditions, they don't take into account that you have to deal with occasionally. It is simply to give you an idea about the length of this process.

Converting into also costs 5 CP , but those can be acquire en masse using . The cost of these few actions are not represented in the above table.

If you lack the to reliably reach 104 copy, it will, obviously, take more publishes and thus, actions.

Maze-Garden[edit]

Another alternative to gain the required items is to do runs of the Maze-Garden. See The Maze-Garden (Guide) for a guide to the grind. Assuming 6.5 Awakening/action, you gain 168 over 18 actions.

Using the tables above, that gives the following values (for correspondents in parenthesis):

Correspondence Plaque requirements for specific whole SotC levels
Current SotC 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Cycles to 21 19
(13) 		18
(13) 		18
(13) 		18
(12) 		17
(12) 		17
(12) 		16
(11) 		15
(10) 		14
(10) 		13
(9) 		12
(8) 		11
(7) 		9
(6) 		7
(5) 		5
(4) 		3
(2)
Cycles to 20 16
(11) 		16
(11) 		16
(11) 		15
(11) 		15
(10) 		14
(10) 		14
(9) 		13
(9) 		12
(8) 		11
(7) 		10
(7) 		8
(6) 		7
(4) 		5
(3) 		3
(2)
Cycles to 19 14
(10) 		14
(10) 		13
(10) 		13
(9) 		13
(9) 		12
(9) 		11
(8) 		11
(7) 		10
(7) 		9
(6) 		7
(5) 		6
(4) 		4
(3) 		3
(2)
Cycles to 18 12
(9) 		12
(9) 		11
(8) 		11
(8) 		11
(8) 		10
(7) 		9
(7) 		9
(6) 		8
(5) 		7
(5) 		5
(4) 		4
(3) 		2
(2)
Cycles to 17 10
(8) 		10
(7) 		10
(7) 		9
(7) 		9
(6) 		8
(6) 		8
(5) 		7
(5) 		6
(4) 		5
(3) 		4
(3) 		2
(2)
Cycles to 16 8
(6) 		8
(6) 		8
(6) 		8
(6) 		7
(5) 		7
(5) 		6
(4) 		5
(4) 		4
(3) 		3
(2) 		2
(1)
Cycles to 15 7
(5) 		7
(5) 		6
(5) 		6
(5) 		6
(4) 		5
(4) 		5
(3) 		4
(3) 		3
(2) 		2
(1)
Cycles to 14 6
(5) 		5
(4) 		5
(4) 		5
(4) 		4
(3) 		4
(3) 		3
(3) 		3
(2) 		2
(1)
Cycles to 13 5
(4) 		4
(4) 		4
(3) 		4
(3) 		3
(3) 		3
(2) 		2
(2) 		1
(1)
Cycles to 12 4
(3) 		3
(3) 		3
(3) 		3
(2) 		2
(2) 		2
(2) 		1
(1)
Cycles to 11 3
(3) 		3
(2) 		2
(2) 		2
(2) 		2
(1) 		1
(1)
Cycles to 10 2
(2) 		2
(2) 		2
(2) 		1
(1) 		1
(1)
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