Unpopular opinion:
At the moment True Social is almost a redundant title because social skills automatically should be part of almost every other title already.
Romance titles → need to have social skills in them
Wealth and Business titles → need to have social skills in them
Intelligence titles → need to have social skills in them
So what would the point of have a separate additional social skills title?
Being social just for the sake of being social makes no sense to me.
Being social is just a means to an end and requires to have end goal, for example:
- Making friends
- Getting laid
- Selling things
- Expanding business
- etc.
For all of these end goals, we already have a ton of titles.
And in my opinion almost all of these titles already require to have and should already have inside of them the social skills aspects.
Any end goal where you are doing something related to other people, also automatically requires social skills, doesn’t it?
I am sharing my opinion because of what happened with Daredevil when it was upgraded:
I have stopped using Daredevil because I felt it wasn’t unique enough as all it’s features like story telling, speech skills, social skills, making life an adventure were already covered in many of the main alpha titles, therefore I didn’t want to sacrifice a valuable listening slot in my stack.
Genesis, Primal, WB, ASBR, KHAN easily replace Daredevil, but add much more to the mix than just what Daredevil has to offer.
I have looked at my offline journal and my notes related to Daredevil and all the benefits that it provided I already get from just running ASBR or Primal alone.
Just sharing my personal perception here, as I feel like the True Social upgrade would need to be something really outstanding and with unique major benefits, otherwise it will feel like it is already covered by other existing titles (and end like Daredevil, i.e. a very very niche title)…
Or maybe some titles just shouldn’t be upgraded?
And just upgrade the social skills scripting in all the other titles instead?
Or merged into other titles?
Why am I even sharing this? I think a part of me doesn’t want Saint and Fire to be working on redundant titles. Better gimme an original Wanted upgrade or a RICH upgrade please.
Or maybe Daredevil and True Social are simply very niche titles and for special stacks only and that is why to me personally they appear redundant?
The reason why I am approaching titles with the question “is this title mostly redundant for me?”, is because we only have 3 slots in the official ZP listening guidelines.
My current stack is 11 titles and I still struggle to break it down to fewer titles.
In the past my approach was “I want all the good things. Which titles can be removed in order to shorted the stack?”
Then I end up with 10 to 15 titles.
My current approach is “What are my goals? And which titles fit perfectly in order to reach these goals?”
Then I still end up with 11 titles.
Does this mean I have too many goals?
And want too many things all at once?
Anyways, just sharing my subjective perspective here.
Maybe there are things about Daredevil and True Social that I don’t see yet?
Saint and Fire will know better since they have the sales numbers for how well which title sells.
Or maybe merge True Social with Inner Circle into one title?
Or merge True Social with Inner Circle with Daredevil into one title?
Merging these would make sense to me, since social skills, networking and storytelling all go hand in hand.