Talk:"The company I keep speaks for me."/@comment-32173620-20170715180401/@comment-24535073-20170715184820

I'm not quite sure what you're asking.

You indeed lose 400 points of Connected: Society here.

In Fallen London, there are two types of quality/items. Linear, and pyramidal.

Linear is almost always used for items, and for some qualities such as Seeking Mr Eaten's Name.

For pyramidal, you need increasingly more CPs for the quality to go up. For example, to go from level 0 to 1, you need 1 CP, but from level 1 to 2, you need 2 CPs. However, these increases cap at 50, so you don't need 51 CPs to go from level 50 to level 51. The only exceptions are main qualities (Watchful/Persuasive/Shadowy/Dangerous), which cap at 70.

If you do this option with Connected: Society exactly at 100, with no extra CPs, you'll see that it drops to exactly 92, because 8 levels of a quality above 50 is worth 400 CPs.

[Also, in this case, the Game Instructions also tells it. Although, they lied about the MW part.]