Hawkeye Harris
Battered Shoe
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Feb-17-2008 04:13
As Breitkat said, your chances of success using the Surveillance skill are significantly higher when wearing Smart clothes; however, it can still work while wearing regular clothing. As always, the "random element" exists.
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Sleuth Sindy
Pinball Wizard
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Feb-17-2008 04:17
Random, indeed! When playing Sleuth Sindy I have probably about a 90% success rate with Surveillance - even when wearing no smart clothes. But when playing an alter-ego, I have about a 90% failure rate - even when wearing full smart gear. :) Go figure. Perhaps it is tied in with the detectives experience points, too?
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Breitkat
Pinball Amateur
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Feb-17-2008 12:16
Will you be able to use it? Absatively, the button still works, whatever clothes you choose to wear. Will it work? Ehhhhhh....that's another story.
At home, in NY, I routinely change from my normal outfit (what you see me in now) to the Agency's smart gear. I go from a smart stat of either -3 or +2 to +29 in the agency stuff. With my normal stuff on, I have a success rate of somewhere around 50% (this is also what I use when traveling). With the smart stuff on, the success rate shoots up to between 90-95%. I've had similar results with different detectives, so there does seem to be some substance behind the theory.
And yes, like many things on Noir, the ease and success of it does tend to get better with the more experience you have. ;-)
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