It'll likely show a human instead, which is probably worse given the ...bad atittude towards non-Equestrian natives in the current age?
Yeah, even if Luna can't make her full public return yet, being able to do at least part of her job again should be broadly beneficial to Equestria.
Have we not been reading the same comments? There are a lot of uncertainties and the biggest problem here is a moral one, not the logistics of getting away with it.
Everything does because I am bothering to read the GM style and tone, and the logic they use.
Point: It says that the swap will work, and it will not cause immediate suspicion, and that we will get a Confidante out of it.
Oh get of your high horse.
Velvet: Ok, I know that you said that you wanted nothing to do with me and that you never wanted to see me again. So, what if instead you had to interact at least once a week with an alternate universe more boring version of me that is of a different species, so you would not see me when you talk to her? Eh? Eh? She is technically not me, so that is better and you never have to interact with me again! Well, me-me, you would still have to talk to monke Velvet.
Ah, but is that not the perfect way to characterize our arguing?
Frankly, I just want to know what it actually does. It may do more or less than we think, and the suspense is killing me.
Offering this to Twilight is probably 3 turns away at minimum given we have to "reasonably understand" the lores at the sedate pace we chose, and I seriously doubt that we'll be able to just do a FR next turn, then we have to actually do it on Shining Armor and succeed, and then we have to offer it to Twilight, from 3 people she's currently rejecting. There is serious reason to believe that Twilight will reject the offer because of where it's coming from. And even then, 3 turns is a lot of time. A lot about her situation may change in that time.
I find this to be a really hollow argument when "we've" already had Velvet make a decision for what is basically personal gain:
This choice helped us get close to Cadance, which is something that was a multi-turn effort. I know not everyone agreed with this choice back in the day, but it's done and over with now, and it certainly informs me of Velvet's character more than this one ever will. Because Velvet took the simplest decision when there was no risk to herself via discovery, and it's not as though we're ever gonna bring up how Shining's proposal was a sham to Cadance. And I know there's something to say about not adding to the pile, but if I was to roleplay as the mindset of Velvet, then valuing other wishes over her own is not something that this choice would change her feelings on.
For the better, right? Right?
I joked above, but I remember reading the discussion was about whether or not to make Cadance feel happy - that is, not for our own personal gain (or at least not entirely), compared to this decision.
No need, things seem to be working as intended.
Yes, rerolls are a function of Level 4, not of any personal abilities unrelated to the Lores. And it's the kind of thing that applies to everyone, not just Velvet.
That comparison is uncalled for.
Honoring her wishes and not getting involved with her directly of course, also we are telling Cadance about that funky Forge healing ritual, and if we were willing to stop honoring her wishes we have several ways of rapidly getting her into a better mental and physical shape with our resources and allies that doesn't require us to fuck her over even harder by throwing her into another world in order to get a new Twilight for ourselves
Weren't we told that Cadence can't learn lores yet, as Celestia will notice it? Even if it is not the case it took forever to teach Luna lores, were we will get spare actions to teach Cadence? The same for soothing the night with Luna, I think we have better tasks for her than spamming it every turn. And weren't people here claiming that they don't want to spend multiple actions on hiding human Twilight if it comes to this? Why would they spend it on helping pony Twilight instead?
Yes. But she already decided for all ponykind once, when she broke tribal door with regrettable action.