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Jim Diamond
Jim Diamond

Jul-24-2007 09:41

What's the general opinion about twinking? Personally I'm against it. I just wanted to hear what people think. Also I'm aware that you can't access higher level cases until you reach a certain amount of experience, but that limit is loose.

For those of you who don't know what twinking means, it's when you have more than one character and give money and/or equipment from one of your characters to another to give it an advantage. It's normally used to give powerful equipment from high level to low level characters that normally can't access it in the game because for some reason it's not available to them.

Look it up in wikipedia or some similar source if you want to read more.

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biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Jul-24-2007 11:04

There's no rules against it, and I know a lot of people who have given equipment to their doubles, or used a double to generate more money. The only true competition in the game is experience, and there's no way to really abuse that short of violating the "no more than two subbed detectives in any agency" rule. Violation of that is pretty equally frowned on by everyone.

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Jul-24-2007 11:05

Also, the majority of your stats in tough/charm don't come from equipment, they come from the advanced skills/flirting/pugilism.

Carrie Mehome
Carrie Mehome
Huntsman

Jul-24-2007 11:10

Well Jim I have killed off many detectives but all of them on purpose...heheheehe. I have felt is was up to myself what I did with the gear and cash as I had earned it. Sometimes I just put everything in the agency safe and locker and other times I just send cash to other agents in my agency. And sometimes I gave it to others in other agencies to pay off shady or a new piece of clothing as a reward for all their hard work. My feelings are if I give it to my new detective or someone else that is my choice. What fun would life be if I could not give gifts to my freinds :) or treat myself?

Arabella Parker
Arabella Parker
Well-Connected

Jul-24-2007 11:17

Most agencies will help out new people with gear and cases to "level up" faster so that they can help out the agency better. No matter if it is a new person or a second (double) of someone already in the agency.

The only way to do this is to have two detectives subscribed and in the same agency. Which if you are paying for two accounts, you might as well be able to share case loads, money, equipment and the like.

And Biggie is correct. More than two detectives in the same agency is against the rules.

R Anstett
R Anstett

Jul-24-2007 12:29

I will offer that it is very easy to have more than two detectives in an agency run by the same person.

There are several agencies in the game that have one to three real players behind the 9 or 10 detectives. With password sharing and being able to access every detective in an agency it does not really matter who created the detective in the first place. (which is the two detectives per player rule cited above)

As players leave the game thier detectives sometimes become 'shared' in an agency and they used by everyone. This makes it easy to push all the cases from that zombie detective to the other active players who want the cases. Or use them for their PE contact, etc.

It is one of the reasons I am hoping that Shades of Mystery starts with some sort of prohibition on password sharing.

Jojo
Jojo
Old Shoe

Jul-24-2007 14:13

Okay, well, password sharing may be exploited (although it really is) to get around the two detectives per agency per person rule, but in regards to only having one double in your agency, I see nothing wrong with transfer of money/equipment from one to the other.



Jim Diamond
Jim Diamond

Jul-24-2007 15:10

Ok. Thanks for your thoughts. Keep 'em coming. I didn't know about the "only two subscribed agents per player in an agency"-rule. I can see the point in Arabella's reasoning too. It's some sort of diet twinking. You *have* after all paid for it. And put in hours of work. *wanders off to consider*

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Jul-24-2007 15:28

I don't see why the whole "who controls what detective" is relevant here. The rule is the rule, if people break it and are caught, they can get in trouble (though thats a loose term). No need to bring it up again and flare up another debate on it.

Arabella Parker
Arabella Parker
Well-Connected

Jul-24-2007 20:16

OK, since R Anstett brought it up (though I wish he hadn't), might as well link to this bit of history.
But be forewarned, this was a HUGE debate that left many people upset and caused Ben to have to create this post.

http://noir.playsleuth.com/map/cityhall/post.spy?id=17427

"4) A single player should not be the primary controller of any more than two detectives in a single agency. The only time when we can positively identify individual players is at the subscription purchase. So in practice, this is interpreted to mean that no more than two detectives in a single agency can be subscribed by the same person. "

Jim Diamond
Jim Diamond

Jul-24-2007 21:51

I see. That means I can't pay for a friend's subscription. Or rather more than one friend's subscription.

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