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Nov-5-2009 22:12

hi all,

I'm wondering if anyone could help me, I can't seem to understand how the game works. Apart from the suspects, I noticed the townspeople clammed too fast.

Not only that I couldn't verify the alibi, I couldn't even match the evidence against the suspects, what should I do?

I've the following skills:
Skills

Research
Advanced Sweet Talking
Lockpick
Advanced Rule Bending
Thread Analysis
Hair Analysis
Flirting

Please Help.

Regards,
Lonely Luke

Nov-7-2009 09:15

While there are many benefits to joining an agency, I do urge you to be careful. Agencies are great to help you when you get stuck on a case as member can open the case and get questions answered for you. But what fun is it and what are you learning if you just file everything and let the rest of the agency do the work for you.

Your strategy is not bad, right up to the part where you guess without following the formula for a guilty suspect. You have learned early that Shady can be rather expensive. He gets more expensive as your xp goe sup so be very careful.

When questioning suspects, I tend to ask motives and then alibis, once I know I have all of the suspects is when I stop asking about motives. I do it this way due to the fact that I can still solve a case with a suspect that clams up for an alibi, but if they all clam up before I have all of the suspects/motives, then the case can become unsolvable.

Nov-7-2009 10:09

I do agree. And, to be honest (in case someone does not know), I don't like the idea of doing everything for a newbie anymore. It's too time consuming. They are going to be able to grow up themselves, and to grow have a cost, and the best thing are if people learn that part themselves.

Only thing that is important to tell a newbie are that if they just put in patience and work, EVERY "mistake" in this game can be covered up for. Do you choose a "wrong" skill, you may still learn the "right" one. It just takes a bit more time. There is actually only 1 choice in the game that you cannot change later on, but then you will probably have learned soo much that you can distinguish between "striped animals" and a "special cup of tea"... ;-)

What I have no problem with though, are to "spam" a newbie with free cases that does not even have the crime scene searched out... In my eyes it's a win-win as long as I have access to more cases than I manage to solve by myself.

Nov-7-2009 17:14

Yes indeed, you're right Irene. Only yesterday alone, I've solved 30+ Easy cases stored by the members in ISAC and able to complete my smart skills except research and faction skills.

Now I'm moving towards intermediates and starting to get stuck due to the fact that I don't have sweet talking.

You're right as well, ctown28, I can understand what you meant by solving the cases the other way around without asking for alibi, but I still prefer to get alibi first. Maybe my strategy will change as I go higher level, but as for now, that's the simplest way for me to follow.