Iron Republic and shops

[Gagarin]

Ok, so I have a bunch of enigmas I wan to comvert into a dread surmise without losing my scholar, however I've just clocked onto the way the shops work. I've spent too many days compiling port reports and I've locked out the shop I need. Any way to get my numbers of days down?

[Wlerin]

It resets after 15, but there's a chance of it jumping right past the one you need onto day 5.

[Sigred]

It can be a real pain. The best way I've found is to keep using SAY on shore leave until you get the result message of "Parliament of Flies is open for business". The next time you select to open shops, it will be the one you are looking for.

[edit] Don't bother with port reports to cycle days. Shore leave cycles it without the risk of losing stats. You just have to spend a minute "at sea" with your engines at zero for SAY to refresh, and then dock again.

[mrbah]

recycling this old thread for questions: using SAY will only increase the IRD, right? so do you still have to compile fallen london, because the wiki states this process to be bugged.

[Galroche]

yep it's bugger some time, but it work some time so keep trying with the SAY ^^

[aardvarkpepper]

I think it works like this -

Every time you use market option, Days +5. But you want days between 1 and 4. (I think). So if you're on 15, you skip right ahead to 5.

So check your Days, and if it's 5, 10, or 15, use shore leave or port report for Days +1.

Then use markets to cycle.

[Wlerin]

Market option may not increase days at all, or at least that was the case last time I played.

[mrbah]

according to the wiki Allow your zailors time ashore will only increase IRD. is this correct?

can it even set the IRD to 1-4?

ah, now I get it the expulsus can set it either to 1 or to 5