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randomness of favors
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Eagle Eye Flo
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Sep-23-2006 19:38
This is a whine ,, only a whine. My last 4 favors have been for the fortune teller. It would not be so bad if I did not already have the
fortune teller as my contact. I am trying to get my PE contact in London and have about 160,000 experience points.
Has anyone else been in a situation like this?
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shell marple
Con Artist
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Nov-1-2006 10:55
Also might I add that in the Newbie FAQ it says this about contacts
How do you get (the right) contacts?
You can have up to 2 contacts in each city - one PE (physical evidence) contact (barber, banker, tailor, shoemaker) and one non-PE (fortune teller, bartender, waiter, etc.). You get a contact by doing favors for the townspeople. Most of the time you'll get a piece of equipment, but sometimes the townsperson will become your contact. Once a townsperson becomes your contact that's it, you can't exchange that person for someone else. So if you want to get specific contacts, f. ex. a specific PE contact, you'll have to quit any favors you might get for the other PE townies. Just keep in mind that getting a specific contact can take a little longer due to the quits.
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AraLives
Battered Shoe
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Nov-1-2006 11:08
Seems fairly cut and dry to me. I wonder if Ben would mind confirming whether there is or is not a way to get the contact you want other than quitting favors.
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R Anstett
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Nov-2-2006 18:09
So far Ben has not posted anythng about favors not being random, so the working premise still stands.
Chron has suggested that he knows a secret that let's him tell his team which of them will get which favor for a hunt.
If that is the case then Eye Spy and Hitchhikers London must know something because they both have many more hunts solved than ERF does lately.
But I still think that it is random and that those two agencies just do a lot of hard work to win their hunts.
Does anyone else know of what Chron could be talking about?
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jasNmushu
Well-Connected
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Nov-2-2006 19:22
I wish I knew too...one of my officers has been trying for the tailor and shoemaker for 2 months now :(
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Jojo
Old Shoe
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Nov-2-2006 19:56
I know of a system that was once talked about long ago in an agency I belonged to... and we pretty much ruled it out after about 3 months of studying if you could control what favors/contacts you got. But that was long ago, so it may be that something has changed....
However, I stand with Ran on this one: I call your bluff Chronestrian. Unless you can provide sufficient proof (or Ben states it is as you say it is), then I don't think you're right on this matter.
Cheers
~Jojo
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Chronestrian
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Nov-2-2006 23:56
Your 'stats-based' rebuttal is invalid because ERF TEAM was shut down for over 18 months, as I've said before. Also, we don't participate in multi-city hunts. I'll say this though- I made my statement as the #1 ranked agent in an effort to give some enlightenment to those behind me. I will leave each and every one of you with this - when the #1 of ANYTHING offers some advice, don't you think it's wise to listen? ;-) HAPPY SLEUTHING TO ALL, and to all a good nite! lol
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Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer
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Nov-3-2006 00:12
Doesn't work Chron... I'm number 1 in my agency and even I won't listen to me... so what chance have you got mate :D
In fact every time I try to assert my number onedness, Paranoid reminds me that there's always someone better out there, and that eventually... I'll just be plain old number two. lol ;)
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Chronestrian
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Nov-3-2006 00:19
dude, I'm #1 in the entire site! OK, I'm just gonna put it out there for everyone! Every townsperson in every city has a political affiliation, just like every agent. Know the affiliations....!
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Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer
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Nov-3-2006 00:51
Hey, well that's very clever. If you worked that out by yourself (and I'll just take it at face value that it's true) you deserve to be No. 1. Seriously. :)
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Chronestrian
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Nov-3-2006 01:05
everything that is 'supposedly' random has a statistical equation. But I didn't work this out, I just observed it. As I said before, Kudos to Ben for making this game much more awesome than most of us realized! I also have charts for many other elements (but those will retire with my agent!).
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