Having played a few rounds of this game, I can actually say I like it! :)

How does the influencing buff thing work? Is it a fixed amount just for having a gestalt? Does it improve with a bigger gestalt?

What does reducing a gestalt do? And, what does consuming an ikon do?

Maximum is a 25% reduction to ego damage taken when influencing; however, while technically feasible, it's "all but impossible" to get that much.

Is it based on the rarity of the ikons in the gestalt or what? (Or maybe you don't know yet, but I'm curious.)

Zarquan:

Is it based on the rarity of the ikons in the gestalt or what? (Or maybe you don't know yet, but I'm curious.)

That was the implication at least. I don't know yet since I'm not really bothering until there are Ikons I like more.

/wait for the weekend.

Zarquan:

Having played a few rounds of this game, I can actually say I like it! :)

How does the influencing buff thing work? Is it a fixed amount just for having a gestalt? Does it improve with a bigger gestalt?

What does reducing a gestalt do? And, what does consuming an ikon do?

The strength of the influence buff depends on the quality (and number) of Ikons in your gestalt.

Reducing a gestalt simply takes one Ikon out of it (whichever one needs to be removed to keep the gestalt valid).

So if you want to use your gestalt as help during influencing, you should switch between the one you use for games (which isn't necessarily very rare-- I've noticed rarity has little to no bearing on actual effectiveness in battle) and one that just has as many rare dudes as possible crammed in?

Coming off of that thought, do you think there could be a way to sort of "register" multiple gestalts, and you could switch between them with a command? This would help people construct multiple configurations without having to go through and break down/rebuild all their gestalts from scratch every time they wanted to try something different, but still only allow one "active" gestalt at a time.

If that's not feasible, though, I'm sure it can just be handled with aliases. But it'd be handy to have, I think!

That is technically true, yes. I will see if there's a simple way to do that, but I think it can easily enough be done with aliases.

Does anyone have a list of quests that give Ikons?

Trying to get a golden cake ikon to activate...finally at turn 18 -

Scantily clad dancers burst out of a golden cake, swarming over Ixion's scene in
a synchronised display of wonton revelry.

"Ahah!" Ixion exclaims triumphantly.

You throw your hands into the air and give a loud, "WOO!"

The Cave of Plunders has been neutralised and cannot take effect.

Despite the circumstances, a Stroke of Divine Luck fails to manifest for Ixion.

You say, "CAKE."

Someone powerful chuckles long and heartily.

Fininkora the Fair bibbles happily with a detached look, Her eyes going in
different directions. With a child-like, gleeful giggle, She runs Her palms over
Ixion, healing him for 5 points of life.

Kalas Ixion, The Devouring Blade says, "It swarmed.."

You say, "I love you, leetle cake!"

Fininkora the Fair bibbles happily with a detached look, Her eyes going in
different directions. With a child-like, gleeful giggle, She runs Her palms over
you, healing you for 5 points of life.

Kalas Ixion, The Devouring Blade says, "Scary cake."

The Battle phase of Turn 18 has ended.
You have forty-five seconds to play up to three Ikons.


You say, "No."

You say, "Adorable cake."

You play Fininkora the Fair.


You play the Tainted Medallion of Madness.

Ixion has conceded defeat in your Ikon battle.

You say, "What."

You say, "Meer?"

You look about in confusion.

Kalas Ixion, The Devouring Blade says, "Could not handle the power of the cake."

Shulamit:

Someone powerful chuckles long and heartily.

I wonder who was spying on your testing!

Iosai. There's a bit before that right after the changelog, where we were still battling, She appeared....She watched for awhile, before leaving saying She might be back later when we broke something for taking forever (we both we heal builds, according to Ixion. I say, I was...random build!)

Estarra:

I posted this on FB in response to a comment that ikons bought with credits seemed expensive and thought it'd be good to repeat here:

I personally think of it as akin to a trading card game, everyone will have certain ikons that they particularly want, certain combinations will be more powerful than others, making them more popular, plus there will be completionists out there that will simply want them for the sake of wanting a complete set.

Me, I can't see myself getting the full set, but I will probably try to get as many as I can since I love TCG's and lately been having a blast playing.

(Just wish I was able to design some ikons myself... >_> )

Is there any way short of experimenting for us to find out what experience boosts the various ranks of ikons give us? I only have a couple of legendary ikons and I'm not incredibly keen on using them up just purely to find out what the boost might happen to be.

(I know that common ikons give a 10% boost)

I've found out through personal use and through others that the boosts are as following:
Common: 10%
Uncommon: 25% (unconfirmed)
Rare: 50%
Epic: 100%
Legendary: (unknown)

Kagato:

Is there any way short of experimenting for us to find out what experience boosts the various ranks of ikons give us? I only have a couple of legendary ikons and I'm not incredibly keen on using them up just purely to find out what the boost might happen to be.

(I know that common ikons give a 10% boost)

I've found out through personal use and through others that the boosts are as following:
Common: 10%
Uncommon: 25% (unconfirmed)
Rare: 50%
Epic: 100%
Legendary: (unknown)

Legendary is 200%.

Phoebus:

Legendary is 200%.

Thanks *adds to the guide*

Played it for the first time last night. It's fun. Only suggestion I'd have would be similar to Phoebus', an easier way to swap cards in and out of your gestalt.

Something like 'GESTALT REPLACE NONE|' to replace/clear the slot without having to reduce/disassemble the rest of your gestalt would probably work, if the 'can't have more X than Y' check is relaxed until you challenge someone maybe?

Edit: the NONE being the new option to clear the slot, to allow swapping ikons of different group in, if that was unclear.

Ushaara:

Played it for the first time last night. It's fun. Only suggestion I'd have would be similar to Phoebus', an easier way to swap cards in and out of your gestalt.

Something like 'GESTALT REPLACE NONE|' to replace/clear the slot without having to reduce/disassemble the rest of your gestalt would probably work, if the 'can't have more X than Y' check is relaxed until you challenge someone maybe?

Gestalt Replace already exists. Although, the group requirement is still checked when you use it.

Yeah, realised it was bit unclear but that's the problem alright. Made edit!

Shulamit:

Scantily clad dancers burst out of a golden cake, swarming over Ixion's scene in
a synchronised display of wonton revelry.

Hello, Estarra and the rest of the Gods!

Since we have ikons, can we have ikon achievements? We have a LOT of games sitting around, maybe we can have achievements for them, too? And what about gambling achievements? We have the Ikons, Fate Game, Tessera, and lots of gambling stuff. Gambling achievements, please! :D

(And what about curio achievements?)

edit:

We also have Chess, Battlechess, Bombard, and Figurine Battles!