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Hawkeye Harris
Hawkeye Harris
Battered Shoe

Jan-25-2007 13:32

Wow, Ben! You don't waste any time! I logged off for a bit and when I came back on there was a new line with "transfer your retired subscription" (at least, I haven't seen it before now)


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Serges
Serges
Vigilante

Jan-25-2007 13:42

CORRECTION: the "transfer your retired subscription" has been there for a while. The "reactivate retired detective" is new...

Jojo
Jojo
Old Shoe

Jan-25-2007 13:50

Can't say I can agree with this completely, but I can see/understand why it was done.

Either way, thanks Ben.

shell marple
shell marple
Con Artist

Jan-25-2007 13:54

Thanks Ben, so how does this work? When a detective is reactivated what will happen, will they be brought back with less skills and money, or will they be brought back at full capacity?

AndreaX
AndreaX
Thespian

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AndreaX
AndreaX
Thespian

Jan-25-2007 14:02

THe conditions seem to be:
1. 25% less xp and skill points correlated to xp
2. 90% of your money
3. One random piece of equipment

Pretty mild in my opinion.

Serges
Serges
Vigilante

Jan-25-2007 14:06

This is all I'm going to say about the ramifications of this change:

I'm going to retire Serges and resurrect him, so I can clear the one FA I have on my record. I'll stow my cash and equipment in my agency so they don't get affected by the penalties. I'll lose 500,000 experience and drop to -7 skill points, which can be made up within a week, instead of over $300,000, which is harder to accrue.

This is going to be a ridiculously exploitable change. Shady is now utterly powerless. FAs are now meaningless unless you are a top 30 detective with aspirations to remain there.

I'm not going to say anything more about my opinion on this change, except... you can't re-close Pandora's Box.

Welcome to the new era of Sleuth.

roamie
roamie
Well-Connected

Jan-25-2007 14:18

Will they still have the FAs? Can they do this as many times as they want?

Serges
Serges
Vigilante

Jan-25-2007 14:22

No, roamie. I tested the system about 20 minutes ago and brought back a character with 0 FAs twice.

AndreaX
AndreaX
Thespian

Jan-25-2007 14:22

No FAs and apparently u can do it as many times as u want...

R Anstett
R Anstett

Jan-25-2007 14:28

I can appreciate the idea that people want to bring back a detective from the grave.

I do think that Serges points out a gap in the process here.

If it is for more experienced detectives the skill point loss will not matter unless we loose skills we already learned. I never have any cash on my detective, not worried about that or the high score drop in posistion.

If the detective comes back with zero False Accusations on their record and there is no limit to the number of times you can do this then effectively we can play without fear.

The first 5 million is the only danger zone, once you earn all the skills you can false accuse with no fear of losing anything.

Perhaps a small clarification on the reactivation could be come back with 2 FAs.

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