Optimize Opportunity Deck (Guide)

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Introduction[edit]

Most favours are sourced from drawing cards, so more favours come with more cards which yield favours. That's why the opportunity deck in should be managed especially when you're engaging in favour-based courses like Favour-based Tribute. Here are some suggestions on how to optimize your deck to gain more favors. Here are some reference that may help you optimize your Opportunity Deck.

For new players and those who need comprehensive guidance, see Vainfire's Guide to London Optimization

cards with favours[edit]

Item[edit]

Some items unlock cards with favours. Here are some relatively easy-to-obtain items, listed in order of game progression and acquisition difficulty.

See Opportunity Items (Guide) for more information.

Attributes[edit]

Some cards with favours only appear when your attributes are in a specific range. So have a specific outfit when drawing. The recommended attributes when drawing are orderly 69-80 or 0-68 or >190, 28-68 or 200-229, 28-44 or >190, >118.


Storylet[edit]

Some storylets in specific progress unlock cards with favours.

cards without favours[edit]

Item[edit]

Some items only unlock cards without favours.

  • Not very profitable.
  • If you already have it, you can loan it out, and so can other keys.
  • yeilds favours but consumes too
  • > 99
  • If you already have one, you can loan it out too.

See Opportunity Items (Guide) for more information.

Menaces[edit]

It's always good to keep menaces low.

Attributes[edit]

Some cards without favours only appear when your attributes are in a specific range. But in most cases, they are hard to avoid. Here are some non profitable ones for reference only.


Storylet[edit]

Some storylets go through cards. Finish them so that you can get rid of them. Here are some examples.

some cards that can't be dealt with[edit]

You know, some less profitable cards are just there no matter how hard you try. Even they can be locked theoretically, the conditions are still too hard or just impossible to fulfill.


an example of optimized Opportunity Deck[edit]

Card Frequency Value Favour for Tribute Note
Altars and Alms-Houses: the Church 100 -0.1 1
Bandages and Dust: The Tomb-Colonies 100
Burning Shadows: the Devils of London 100
By the River's Side: the Docks 100 -0.1 1
Court and Cell: the Constables 100
Gunpowder and Zeal: the Revolutionaries 100
Park and Palace: Society 100 -1.15 1
Slime and Amber: the Rubbery Men 100
The Alleys of London: the Criminals 100 -0.65 1
The Demi-Monde: Bohemians 100 -1.85 1
The Roof-Tops: Urchins 100
Whispers from the Surface: The Great Game 100
More Larks with the Young Stags 100 -5 3
A Visit 100 3.45 2
Just got in before my deadline, dear 100 15 0.7 FATE1 action = 5 E
Coffee with the Last Constable 50
Bringing the revolution 100
A Day with God's Editors 100 -0.5 1
A day at the races 100 0 1
A devil's taken a shine to you 100 0 1
What will you do with your Hungover Terrier?  100 0 1
Attend to Your Spouses 50 0 1
An Encounter with Tristram Bagley 50 0 1
A merry sort of crime 50 0 1
The Calendrical Confusion of 1899 100 1 1
The Heron Tower: Events at a Lair in the Marshes 100 -0.29 1
City Vices: Orthographic Infection 100
A Moment's Peace 100
An Afternoon of Good Deeds? 100
The Law's Long Arm 100
A Restorative 100
A Dream of Roses 100
An unusual wager 100
Mr Wines is holding a sale! 100
Wanted: Reminders of Brighter Days 100
A Presumptuous Little Opportunity 100
Weather at last 100
The Northbound Parliamentarian 100
The Awful Temptation of Money 100
Trailing the Affluent Photographer 100
A bewildering salon 100
A Polite Invitation 100
A past benefactor 100
The Soft-Hearted Widow 100
Mirrors and Clay 100
The Seekers of the Garden 100 -1.19 2
Devices and Desires 100
The Cities that Fell 100
An Implausible Penance 100
A fine day in the Flit 20
A dream about a window at night 1 20 assuming red card frequency is 20%
A dream of a dark, dark room 50
A dream about an angry mountain 20
A dream about the mist 20
Discordant Ripples 120 Very profitable, yet not considered here for now.
sum 4950 8.62 21.7 On average, 49.5 draws and 18 actions is 8.62 E and 21.7 favours for Tribute.

Therefore, the EPA of Favour-based Tribute here is

Start with , use and , and conbine with Piracy (Guide) (suppose 3 EPA).