Thread:Nedemmons/@comment-14876820-20130912174458

Thanks for your contributions to the Raising Connections guide. I wasn't aware that the cp changes for visiting acquaintances had been increased, and adding options for those without connection pets is an excellent idea. Perhaps those should go in their own subsection, under General Methods. What do you think?

I'm going to revert a few of your changes, though, and I thought it would be best to explain why here.

First, the guide is only for repeatable options -- so selling the location of the Nadir, for example, is excluded.

Second, the wiki doesn't cover Fate-locked content, and I think your references to the Soul Trade are probably too explicit.

Third, I don't think we should cover options which are strictly worse than an alternative -- the connected pet option for Bohemians, for example, gives fewer cp than composing poetry, and also costs Whispered Secrets. I don't think gambling Masters connections at the Carnival should be covered, for more or less the same reason: it's worse than the alternative of doing nothing, since it reduces your Connected on average.

Fourth, in the interests of clarity, usability and brevity, it seems to me better to exclude Carnival options from the Specific Connections section, since they're already covered in the General Methods section. If you'd like to investigate the exact number of cp these options give, though, and add the values to the General Methods section, that would be extremely helpful; unfortunately my Connected values are too high to test them, and I don't want to get rid of them just for that purpose.

If you disagree with my views on these matters, please let me know either here or on my Wall -- I imagine the best way to proceed would be to solicit the views of the wider wiki community, especially the more experienced editors. 