You need to rock too.

I do. Hmm, do I need to keep entering 'rock chair' or does it rock on its own after the first 'rock chair' command? When I meditate while rocking, am I still rocking? Sorry, I can't tell.

Just need to do it once.

Both submissions and victories -- obviously victories are worth a lot more than non-winning submissions though.

Ta.

Why doesn't Theater winner count towards culture score?

It does.

The gotcha you're missing though is that the bonus is already shown on that line. So...


The +150 is already part of the 300 on that line, and the +300 is already part of the 424 on that line. (Look back at the news post, the play's score was 124 in that. 124 plus 300 = 424.) If you add it up you'll find it totals right. It's just not very clear.

Hrm, are you sure? Seems that library gets rewarded doubly then: fastest growing, ie activity for the term, plus winners (which get 500 each), plus overall library, whereas theater just gets activity for the term, plus score (which, from your post, I assume to mean overall productions ever + winning...which is only worth 150? Or, if you mean that the winning production gets 500, then that means that there is no bonus for highest theater activity, which again means theater is not rewarded as much as library is)... why is theater worth so much less? That seems silly, especially since library is already falsely inflated because people publish "scripts" in the library, whereas it's not as easy to double-dip in that direction with the theater. If anything, the theater should be worth more.

Yeah, library is hugely more valuable than theater. A single theatrical score can (but virtually never does) earn more than a single book, but never as much as two; plus libraries score points for all those other things (fastest growing, credibility, etc.) but theater only has two scores which don't come anywhere near to as much. And considering how theater is more of a team effort, all the more reason it should be more, not less, important than a single book.

But on the bright side, theater used to be worth half as much as it is now to culture. So at least it's not as bad as it once was!

Sorry, that wasn't as clear as possible. Let me try again.

Total potential library score
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Literary/Scholarly winner: 500
Fastest growing: 500
Most Literary/Scholarly: 300
Largest: 300

Just including one subject, that's 1600 score possible.

Total potential theater score
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Theater activity: 500ish seems a common high figure for this. That's the score you get for several long productions in the 2 year span
Theater score: To be honest, it's not really clear what this means. I'm guessing this is either based on overall productions, or ratings of new productions or something. In any case, 400-500 seems the max on this?

So that's 1k, maybe a bit more, being generous, max possible. So, if top theater reward IS included in those numbers, I don't understand why it's not worth 500 like publications are. :/

Oh, you ninja. Well, in response to that, it's silly, since we all know that a good chunk of the library is just people reproducing their bardic entries, whereas theater productions require interaction, IG work, and encourage a multiplayer environment, versus (well, at least in my case) merrily typing away in Word while influencing guards.

If one were to switch from guild A to guild B, and the same tertiary skill were to be available in guild B, would you still have to forget said skill for the 10% lesson loss and re-learn it?

Example: Shadowdancer/Moondancer --> Celestine

Nope. I've done this twice. You would not.

And I think it's 20% loss, actually. But no, you wouldn't have to forget it.

10% was wishful thinking, I suppose!

Huzzah for no 20% loss, though.

You confide in an illithoid scourge how much you admire his dazzling mental and physical skills.
An illithoid scourge ignores you, his mind distracted by more important matters.

What is that? I analysed him and got:
An illithoid scourge possesses an intimidating demeanor. He is currently laidback.

Which means he's not already influenced, nor was it storytell. It completely prevents me from influencing that mob. What is it?

Intimidating mobs may not like your influencing choice.

Try a different influencing style.

(Each mindset of mob is immune to 1 influence style and weak to another)

It means that he's attacking something currently. You'll have to find a way to pacify him before you can influence him.

The hags are giving me that as well.

And I've empowered both hags and illithoids before, so it is definately not that.

Hm... or that. *cough*