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Aug-31-2007 23:31

. . . to get to the bottom of a mystery?

When the server is running VERY slowly, as it seems to have been doing latey, every click is costly timewise. Because of this, I think it would be nice if, when you clicked on a Townie location with more than one option as to who you want to talk to, you first went to the Townie and then could choose another option from that screen if you need to rather than having to click twice every time you need to question that Townie.

It would also be EXTREMELY nice to have a short-cut link to the Equipment Locker (for those in an agency) and Research in City Hall.

Aug-31-2007 23:33

Oops! That would be, "as it seems to have been doing *lately,* . . .

*And EDIT option on the Message Boards would be nice too! :)*

Sep-1-2007 01:13

It was running very slowly for me as well, so I walked away until about 10 minutes after clock turnover and didn't have a problem.

I would like to be able to jump from townie to townie without going to map though.

Sep-1-2007 01:39

Things always slow down at day change, must be the servers running slow on the build up!

But for me I still beleive strongly that when asking a contact about a peice of evidence it should be a 1 click "Who's is it" question with the correct response right away (unless the owner of said evidence is not in your list in which case they should say something like "I can't match this to any of your suspects, come back later). Seems silly that we still have to plod through suspects 1 by 1 when they'll anwer an infinite number of questions.

Sep-1-2007 02:05

I've always felt that way as well. Here's where the back button comes in really handy.

Sep-1-2007 20:20

Goning to the equipment locker , fortune teller is quite simple to speed up I just simply put a bookmark for research, locker, fates

This is means I don't have to click on them.

I also open them in another tab, the advantage being I don't have to leave a suspect to consult the fates, do research, which means they will not vanish I can ask there alibi.

it seems to work, I am also developing a tool that gathers information about the suspects and summarises it automatically. It currently only works on firefox (because that is what I use) i.e. attributes motive, alibi status. I was thinking that it could change it automaticly ask contact thing. It is underdevelopment but it makes my job easier.

If I wanted it could solve cases but I do not think I will do that, it would spoil the game, I just want to get rid of the tedious parts.

Sep-1-2007 20:25

I also think it should not ask to confirm if you have the required evidence,

pe + na, or we + na, or 2 we. Every time accuse someone I am terrified I am making a mistake, especially in foriegn countries where the names are difficalt for me to read and sometimes distinguish between.

also you should not be able to accuse someone with a real alibi. Why would anybody want to do that.


Only confirm if you are guessing or using higher level induction

Sep-1-2007 20:32

That sounds a bit like an enhanced and somewhat changed version of Pigeon's Automated Sleuth Helper. Or maybe I'm just not reading your comment correctly.

Sep-2-2007 00:46

I don't know about Pigeon's Automated Sleuth Helper, I just wrote something for myself, I doubt it is enhanced it is very alpha.

Now that you mentioned Pigeon's Automated Sleuth Helper, I looked at it looks similar, however mine does not include the web browser it is completely seperate, it is much harder to include a web browser when you are not on windows (I could use Rex but last time I used it i was a bit flakey)

The gui is also in development but use use it as just run it, it gets all the information and copies it to the clipboard, which put in a postit note, which I can edit very simple but flexible and the gui will have to be almost complete before it can compete. It shouldn't take too long