Best Ettiquettes for Dragonfall?

[YellowSign]

Hoi chummers. Got a quick question for you all - which ettiquettes did you feel got the most mileage in Dragonfall? I took Shadowrunner as my very first one on my human decker, and I don't believe I've used it yet (I'm currently at the APEX Rising mission.) So far from what I can tell, Security and Corporate are nearly mandatory in later missios, and I've seen a good bit of Ganger and one or two Street options as well. The Socialite one will net you a bottle of Islay scotch worth 500 nuyen, but other than that I've not seen much use for it.

I know that individual mileage may vary, but I'm still curious to hear what others have found useful. I'm honestly feeling like some of the choices might be duds.

[Cutlass Jack]

Honestly the most useful thing is just having a 6 charisma. Its used more than all other Ettiquettes combined.

Security is decent. Don't take Shadowrun. Didn't see one usage for it.

[YellowSign]

Aya, I was afraid that it was going to be a wasted choice. It's a shame if it wasn't incorporated at all - you certainly got mileage out of it in DMS, and that made me think it would be used in DF too.

[Talon]

I believe Socialite also helps you negotiate a larger fee from the guy that wants you to do the humanis policlub run.

[YellowSign]

Ah yes, good point - I'd forgotten that one.

[Mack Yuu]

Security, definitely.

Corporate will net you some decent stuff (used on MKVI), Socialite gets you a couple higher payouts, I've yet to see a Shadowrunner check pop up; I like my Academic one for my Decker because it makes them sound sm*rt, but I don't think it's given me any mechanical benefits so far.

Not sure about the others, really. I think I've seen a couple Gang checks, but no Street checks. Cha 5 will get you past a lot of checks by itself (oh, you developer trolls, knowing most of us just go for Cha 4), and Cha 6 will even get you out of a couple fights, but that's a huge point dump if you're not going Conjuration to skip a couple fights.

...Then again, either there's a random element or the Bloodline mission got changed with the patch to where Security Etiquette alone won't let you waltz through the basement giggling to your payday. There's a Cha 6 check towards the end (before the last room) that wasn't there on my first playthrough.

[Achi]

The most important (most useful) etiquettes in Dragonfall are: Corporate, Gang, Security.
Academic and Socialite see some use, too, but they are more rare than the above mentioned.

[YellowSign]

Heh, I think there needs to be some sort of warning to DMS vets that the Shadowrunner ettiquette is a complete bust in DF. I feel like a fool for taking that as my starting ettiquette, but I had no way of knowing. If anyone knows of a use for it in this campaign, I'd love to hear it.

[Achi]

Heh, yeah. You'd think that Shadowrunner would be THE most important etiquette for everyone...sadly, this isn't the case since most campaigns don't support tranfering characters, and it isn't all that much used in the official campaigns so far.

[Gloomseeker]

Street is actually used at least once.

[YellowSign]

With the vendor in the APEX mision, I think... Street could be used to get the deck component at a discount, yes?

[Mack Yuu]

I still haven't figured out why there's both a Gang and a Street Etiquette. I feel like they're sort of redundant. But maybe that's just me.

[Ixal]

Originally posted by kevin.macku:

I still haven't figured out why there's both a Gang and a Street Etiquette. I feel like they're sort of redundant. But maybe that's just me.

Think of it as low life equivalent of Security and Corporate.

[Infinite Probability]

Security is probably most useful, with Corporate, Gang, and Socialite next, with Academic rounding out the bottom. Everything else is pretty much useless.

[Sept]

academic suddenly became very important near endgame,
I think there are at least two conversation almost right next to each other that requires it.
So you might want to dump it in towards the end.

[Noanmus]

Just remember that academic doesn't actually give you any gameplay advantage, its there for the lore and rp this time around.