User:Gauteamus
I intended to post this on the Inspirationals page, but then noticed my maths were bogus. I hope to salvage some of it for later use, so I save it here.
Jorb's statement on Inspirationals in Brave New World:
Press CTRL+T. That's your character sheet. Go forth into the world and find and/or craft curiosities -- here we'll refer to them officially as Inspirationals just because we want to keep some terminological distance to Haven. You get some on harvesting, foraging, butchering &c&c. The usual cool beans.
Inspirationals add Inspiration to one or more of the dimensions on the far left side of your character sheet. Gather up present value times a hundred and you can level the value one step, much like in Haven. The values themselves do nothing at the moment, but the skills now also have costs along these dimensions. Leveling any one value or buying any skill empties all meters. Notice that before you can actually spend the inspiration you first need to "assimilate" it. This is done over time and by expending black bile. We will be adding actual meaningfulness to the skill values themselves further down the road, most of them will be used in affecting the crafting quality much like in Haven.
Speculation:
Warning: this is bogus! The output of an Inspiration in terms of skill points, seems to be dictated by some base value in each category, multiplied by the purity level of the item. Purity is calculated by adding together the squares of each elemental value (in decimal representation). Purity will be a number between 0.25 and 1.00.
Example: Strawman - Salt 38.84, Mercury 7.75, Sulphur 38.51, Lead 14.89 Purity = 0.3884^2 + 0.0775^2 + 0.3851^2 + 0.1489^2 = 0.33
Some testing with linear regression suggests the base values below, for some different inspirationals:
Chestnut: Frontier & Wilderness - 120 Hunting & Gathering - 160 Sparks & Embers - 80 Sugar & Spice - 40
Strawman: Arts & Crafts - 600 Faith & Wisdom - 400 Hunting & Gathering - 400 Law & Lore - 720 Stocks & Cultivars - 600 Thread & Needle - 800
