I've definitely come around on any concerns about the -1 fate or -1 favor at the end of the phase, I think I genuinely just had too many named NPCs to get to, and so for many of them their starting fate/favor was immediately dropped to nothing which left me with... probably the proper amount of SCs lol. And yet I still have 14 somehow... I'm curious how many SCs other playtesters have found they have in the rotation :P
> Also, my thinking is that -1 Favor is showing that it's 1 away from 0. They slightly dislike you or are irked by you, but it's pretty close to being neutral.
That level of mild dislike makes total sense, I guess I was meaning to ask what it means to "subtract" 1 favor when favor is already negative. Sometimes it seems to mean their dislike of you goes up (which would be going from say -2 favor to -3 favor) but sometimes "subtracting" favor seems to be meant more to "return to a baseline of 0", as in, they don't think about you as much any more since you haven't interacted. This would be going from -2 favor to -1 favor, in such a case.
It's made me wonder if sometimes the rules should say "-1 favor (as in, subtract 1 favor)" and sometimes they should say "move favor to 1 point closer to 0", because those really can be two different things when it comes to antagonistic SCs (it's the same for platonic/romantic, as they're both in the positives). Depending on the scene/situation you might want the results of a given scene to do one or the other...
I hope that makes sense :D