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Jan-29-2012 10:59

Feb-2-2012 15:55

We talked about adding in the ship at the same time as we messed about with Cairo, deciding that there were a few complications that might not make it friendly to people's well err... sanity. Not the least of which would be Ben's :) Non-geographical clues as per Cairo make any City accessible to set up for Villain Hunts but the whole 'where is the ship' made it seem a bit messy. We did consider a 2nd tier 'harder' Villain Hunt encompassing 'all' locations where people could dig themselves into as big of a whole as they liked, but we ended up just sticking with Cairo as a compromise / test. We weren't really sure at the time if the non-geographical clues were going to be cool or not.

Feb-2-2012 16:05

Of course an all encompassing uber-hunt sounds ok, and Ben was pretty happy with the concept in general, but you have to balance that off with 'reward' for effort and if for example the reward was even better gear, well then that starts to mess with how easy the game gets. So we'd probably need to come up with a different reward structure for any 'uber-hunt'. Also it would have to be an 'opt-in' deal. You wouldn't want to come across an 'uber-hunt' ugh 'UH' first up when you picked up your first Villain Hunt.

Annnnnd I think an UH would have to be somewhat more interesting than 'just' a 'longer' version of the VH.

Feb-2-2012 16:06

PS Squirrel out!

Happy Sleuthing!

Feb-2-2012 16:13

And don't forget you cant get off the ship for 3 days, so you could have captured and then just be sitting and waiting lol.

Unless they would have to change that as well...

Feb-2-2012 16:15

yeah that's another place where it got messy :D

Feb-3-2012 13:31

For a 'uber-hunt' reward how about offering up those pesky brass rings?

Feb-3-2012 13:32

The Prince of Shangri-La could always provide a speedboat once the hunt was complete to allow you to get off the ship mid voyage :)

Feb-3-2012 17:21

Something like that could work very well. When the AVH is solved a message would appear saying something like "The Prince was delighted that you found the co-conspirator and his envoys arranged for your quick departure by motorboat to continue tracking down (name of AV)". The following screen would simply take you to the next city in the hunt - the price of that journey being absorbed in the (rather high even for the 1920s/30s) Sleuthetania costs?

As mentioned above, an Uber Hunt would have to be something to which individual detectives could opt in. So why not plan say one per month, beginning on set dates that are pre-announced? Perhaps these hunts would have to start on board the ship in order to fit in with sailing times. This should make it easier for Admin to organise (?) People who want to take part could simply travel to Shangri La at the correct time and select the option 'Accept Uber Villain Hunt' (or whatever it might be termed). They would then, as normal, have to travel from the train station - but to whichever departure point the ship is sailing from (NY or Shanghai).

This format could also lend itself very well to tournament style play.