Talk:Casing (Guide)/@comment-69.161.18.194-20200213235949

As a mention, If you're trying to grind Antique Mysteries, the numbers they're giving are for 100% success rate. If, like me, you're trying to get the Mysteries for 4-card lodgings and only have ~110 Shadowy, even if you have the Hoodlums, you're going to be losing 51 cp and not getting the full 18/5 actions from the Hoodlums half the time doing Thefts of a Particular Character.

Let me interest you in Heists from the Circumspect Envoy's office. 3 cp/Action for Stealing Paintings for the King, I go with 30 cp (10 actions, call it 11 for the ~85-95% success rate I've been working at). One action to select the target, three to buy inside info, one at the end to pick, the loot one to convert. There's 17, plus whatever it takes to actually carry out the heist. With three inside info and drawing three cards, I'd say six actions. Minimum would be three, but let's say you get pretty bad cards. 23 actions/mystery, 1150 actions total. Pretty terrible compared with the 495 that Thefts offer... but you don't need Hoodlums or high Shadowy for good success %s ( I ran the math at my %s for average actions per Theft to get the CP back I'd average losing from the check at the end, and it mathed out to 17 actions for each Theft ). You're also getting CP for each stealing paintings, which is going to be a minimum of 11/per with the math above, versus 8/per for the thefts. And.

The mysteries aren't the only loot from the Envoy's office. You also get a rifle, some testimonies, and an artifact. Final valuation without the mystery per heist, 17.50 in sell price. *50 for the number of heists, total 875 echos in extra cash. Not great for 1150 actions, but you need less resources to do it, you're getting more CP, it's accessible at a lower skill level and if we take the difference in actions from the lowest action way here (495), it comes out at about 1.34 EPA, which is better than Unfinished Business average of 1 EPA .

Something to think on