What's your fate point investment strategy?

I rmemeber that in my earlier games I always ended the game with practically all of my fate points having gone to waste unused. I used one to pick pocket the sword of baltar and that was about it.

Now that I'm playing car arcanum I think a more pragmatic approach might be wise.

How have the rest of you generally spent your fate points either in vanilla arcanum or in CA?

 

Press the button next to your fat point counter, and a small menu will drop down, displaying a list of possibilities. My favorite is to do a full heal on myself. However, you can also make instant critical successes on attacks, lockpicking, etc. You can also make your enemies critically miss the next time they attack you.

 

thanks!

I think I worded the title poorly.

What I was mainly looking for was how people liked to spend the points which you also answered.

I never considered using them for a full heal, it always seemed as if I could do better just by using smaller heals a bit earlier in the fight. Do you use the fate point for a full heal as a way to beat certain fights much earlier than would otherwise be possible and progress faster in the storyline or just wait until a battle happens to be going sour for whatever reason?

I think my biggest problem was a stubborn insistance that I had to get some permanent tangible bennefit otherwise nearly unattainable bennefit for my character if I was going spend a fate point and of course I hardly ever thought of such situations where fate points could be used in that way.

 

I try to never use them.

Edit: Especially since you get them mainly from good deeds, and using them is almost like cheating (I mean, if you can't normally e.g. pick a huge lock on the door of a bank, you just simply become a master of lock picking in 1 min???)

 

they are used in a lot of rpg systems I've seen. Alternately called "karma" points, "plot" points, "fate" points or whatever. I think they are meant to model the very convenient (for plot purposes) lucky breaks or impressively timely adrenaline pumped feats that characters experience in literature and film.

 

You get afate point from killing Stillwater (on a quest), and from killing the bandits at the bridge in Shrouded Hills. But...yeah, they can be pretty cheap.
Since the title has been re-worded, and I understand what you meant...
I like to use my fate points for a full heal (when I can't sleep anywhere, or I decided to NOT invest any points in therapeutics, but maintain a 100% technical aptitude, so Virgil can't heal me {also, I HATE Jayna Stiles}), and also to make my enemies critically miss. There's nothing quite like being attacked by a pack of shiverbits, only to have one of them miss while biting me and spontaneously split in half.

 

Grossenschwaum, did you or any one else already post that here. I'm almost certain that I've read it before, and felt I've read it before before. If not, I'm experiencing some scary deja deja vu. (I especially recognize this sentence: "(when I can't sleep anywhere, or I decided to NOT invest any points in therapeutics, but maintain a 100% technical aptitude, so Virgil can't heal me {also, I HATE Jayna Stiles})", does anyone else remember it.)

 

It's just you, mathboy. I think. Well, at any rate, all of the stuff in said sentence was indeed said elsewhere in this forum, albeit not in the same place. It's a fake memory, but it's based on fact.

 

Yeah, its a little like cheating, especially when I use it to for critical success on Pickpocket to steal Plate Mail armor off of the Ogres in Black Root, and the same from the dwarfs in the Wheel Clan. But hey, they dont sell the stuff, and I dont want to waste character point on pickpocketing. Its even better when you put the mail on right in front of them and the dont seem to mind, standing there in their draws!

 

Yeah, same here: I use my fate points for stealing (e.g. hand cannon in Tarant, armour of ogres in Black Root, and so on). I rarely use them for anything else.

 

Taken my advice, I see?

I normally use fate points to steal stuff. This is how I usually acquire the Sword of Baltar, the Compound Bow in Dernholm, the Looking Glass Rifle in Ashbury or the Small Elite Plate from Caladon. Fate points just don't seem to be much good for anything else- chests can be opened and wounds can be healed in more conventional ways. At times, I might use a fate point on a particularly pissed off follower to "Force Good Reaction"- especially useful after slaughtering the guards in the Caladon prison in order to get the Lockpicks Master status. "Full heal now" probably makes some sense for someone fighting in real time (I prefer the tactical flexibility of the turn-based fights).

Other uses of fate points are quite pointless.

 

That hand cannon sounds awfully familier now that you mention it. Was it on gun merchant?

 

Nah, you can pickpocket the Hand Cannon from Sammy White, the pickpocket master. He's the halfling standing in the park in Tarant. Perhaps you can find one elsewhere as well, I'm not sure.

 

lol that almost seems Ironic. Normally I feel a twinge of guilt when my "good" characters engage in theft but not this time >= )