Revenge! A Tale Of Stinky Cheese

[Twelvefield]

I've developed a bad habit on the Revenge event. It's the one where you can either fight or hire someone that approaches you with an offer to join you not long before you seek out the Baroness.

You can only hire them or fight them. The only information you have to go by is their picture and their name, which tells you a little of their class. That's okay, but I want to see their cards! At this point of the game, I'm trying to ensure that my deck is solid.

I could hire the person and then fire them later, but I'd be saddled with their cards for some time. If I fight them, I don't get the benefit of their companionship, if any.

So this is the bad habit: I hire them and look at their cards, and then use CTRL-ALT-DEL and Task Manager to force the game to stop if I don't like what I see. The game's last save state is before the event, so there's no commitment.

Even I think this is cheesy. Either the loophole should get tightened up, or else we should have the option to see the person's cards and stats like any other hiring.

[Spawnling]

Just kick them out of the party right after the event (on the "world map screen"), if you don't like the cards?
Unwanted ally is gone and their cards are gone with them. Problem solved, no need to kill the game.

You can also Reject them and never do the sidequest to avoid the fight.

[Sintonir]

Originally posted by Twelvefield:

So this is the bad habit: I hire them and look at their cards, and then use CTRL-ALT-DEL and Task Manager to force the game to stop if I don't like what I see. The game's last save state is before the event, so there's no commitment.

Alt-F4 works just as well, but quicker.

Originally posted by Spawnling:

Just kick them out of the party right after the event (on the "world map screen"), if you don't like the cards?
Unwanted ally is gone and their cards are gone with them. Problem solved, no need to kill the game.

This only works if you have a free slot in the party, otherwise you lose the party member you replaced with the person you hired.
But I think in 90% of cases it is just fight them out, they almost always have lvl 1, crappy equipment and crappy cards.

[Twelvefield]

I don't need to avoid the fight, they aren't ever all that good compared to me. But I didn't know that kicking out a knight removed their cards as well. I thought that the cards stayed, like when they die.

Most of the time their cards are crummy, but not all the time. Sometimes their cards are perfect. It's the 99 times you do to Goodwill it's a pile of crap, but the 100th time there's a player-worn collector's jersey and an unworn Brooks Brothers suit from a liquidation sale in your size.* There's no way to know except to hire the knight.

*I bought the suit, it fits and looks great; I failed to buy the jersey, infinite regret. I saw a similar one up for sale on auction, it went for a kazillion.