Hawkeye Harris
Battered Shoe
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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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cfm
Nomad
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Jan-26-2007 13:31
Welcome back, Leddie, Ara, Akano, and soooooooo many others!
I've been trying to digest all of this information, and here's where my thoughts have led....
If you choose to pay shady, even at the earlier levels, often you end up selling every item you have, and borrowing money to do it. I think retiring might be a pretty sweet deal to avoid that. Sure you pay in exp, but if you are in an agency, that can be pretty easy to recover as well as your money and gear.
Plus, it looks like if you retire you get to keep your sweet apartment too?! Dang! At least realestate should be taken too.
I really like the ideas presented about losing contacts. While the levels aren't bad, Ben's repeatedly stated the issue with that, and he's right. Someone with 4,899,076 exp points is going to bump their goldfish and want the 5 mil exp break. More work leg work for Ben that he shouldn't have to do.
I also think that the resurrection, one time use skill isn't a bad idea. I don't know how diffuclt a one time use skill would be to create though.
At any rate. At least we shouldn't have so many complaints about Shady being too high. I know I was prepared, like many, to just accept retirement if I ever got up to that 2nd FA. It's nice to know I have another option!
I just think the results should be more similar to retirement, than a simple inconvience. Keep the name, as some one suggested but lose everything else.
*sits down, shuts up, and watches again*
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astroldetective
Sleuth About Town
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Jan-27-2007 16:27
What if resurrected detectives are simply barred from agency participation (on probation) until they pay off their 2 FAs - that way they just cant get money/gear from the agency when they come back.
This would level out the problems that Serges pointed out. This would make the experience fair and equal to those both in and out of agencies. This would also give people incentive to pay off their FAs BEFORE they get retired, because gaining back their status would be hard.
It also makes sense in a real world way, the agency only lets you off probation once you clean up your record. Kind of like losing your license...
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Agatha Holmes II
Well-Connected
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Feb-21-2007 06:05
Better late than never... Just a general comment.
I think revival is a great idea. Especially for someone like me, who only has ONE detective. I've been taking care of her for a couple of months now, and if she had to retire, I most probably will NOT start a new one. I've invested so much time, I can't bear to think of doing it all over again.
I agree that there should be penalties, but again, if the penalties are too harsh and I lose say something like 5 months worth of skills / contacts / XP, it would pretty much have the same effect as retirement.
I understand that people with more than one detective won't understand this, but I bet most people with only one detective will tell you the same.
Just my 2c worth. :-)
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