More uses for Favour From Authority?

[Ellamin]

I can understand the use from this card as a "get out of jail free" card if evidence piles up against you, but I do feel like like it could use more variety.

Most of the time I either get this card by accident and end up not using it or it never shows up during the rare times I do need it. One thing that could be done is to make it useable is when you send your followers on cult business. For example, if you send a knock guy to steal from people and he gets caught, you can opt to use the favour to keep him from being imprisoned. It would also help encourage people to do cult business more frequently, as they would have the possibility to rescue a particular cultist rather than it be an instant death with no chance of recovery as it currently is.

[myhr2]

A way to extend the timer would sure be nice. But at the core, the fact that it's not a guaranteed option means you can't rely on it, I think this is what hurts it the most. The effect is powerful, but it's just too unreliable to get it AND to have it do what it's supposed to. It's kinda a newbie trap, in that sense, and maybe that was the intent.

[Nakos]

My experience with the Favor From Authority card has been that it is indeed functionally useless.

I suppose it's fair that it shouldn't be easy to obtain. I suppose it might even be fair that it might not always work (although that would probably require a modified version of Damning Evidence to make it clear to the player that an attempt to appeal to authority had indeed been made, but had failed, so ... extra art and coding there to create something that was functionally identical to Damning Evidence while still being visually distinctive to the player).

Buuuuuut.... I think it's too useless.

It either needs to be easier to get, but less likely to be successful.
Or, much harder to get, moderately successful, but with no expiration timer.

Alterantively, it should have a characteristic that allows it to be used in rites (so at least it's got SOME use).

Anyway, functionally useless as is, but may that's the intended behavior.