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Feb-5-2012 08:31

Okay, I'm PRETTY sure either I messed up, or the system did...
I just scored another False Accusation, and I was certain I had the killer. It doesn't make sense.

I had 10 suspects, I checked with the Fortune Teller to confirm. By that standard, I should have 3 suspects with real alibis, and I did. I got all 3 of them. My PE were 3 footprints; 2 Slim, 1 heavy, and one unidentified Hair. From the suspects with real alibis, 2 had a Slim Footprint, and one had a Heavy one. I checked one of the Slim Footprints with both the Slim-footed suspects, and it didn't match, so I had to assume my killer was slim, because if that PE doesn't match either of your slim suspects, it means one of them matches the unidentified Hair and the other matches the other slim footprint. The one Heavy suspect should definitely match the Heavy footprint, because there is nothing else that could belong to her. Mind you, I checked TWICE on my total number of suspects.

I know you're thinking:' Well, maybe you didn't get 3 suspects with real alibis. You probably made a mistake.' Here's the thing: I DOUBLE-CHECKED each suspect and I definitely, with absolute certainly, got 3 suspects with valid alibis.

Now, let's move on. I go through WE and finally get a pointed finger, so I accuse her, and what do I get?

A false accusation, AND the real killer was someone with a Heavy footprint.

Seriously, where did I go wrong? I'm really baffled by this.

Feb-6-2012 12:32

Probably right, Bane. But it was during an AVH, and they're all AI cases. They all had different names, so I couldn't have gotten it wrong there. And most of all, I know I had 3 real alibis down, because I get all jittery and excited when I get my third alibi down and start singing the suspects' names repeatedly while I--

Yeah, I'm just going to stop. Somehow, I'm starting to feel more stupid going on and on about this. Let this go down as an important day...

The day I have to look Shady in the eye and tell him...

Yep, it was me. I did it.

Feb-9-2012 12:54

Syn, that happened to me three times thus far.

They say that I must have made a mistake while I was noting things down. There were times when I caught myself making a mistake while noting, but in one of these instances I double checked, too and I was dead sure about it.

Something similar happened to Summer Daze, too. Whereas Cordelia Falco says she has never come across a glitch in any of her 3900+ cases that she has solved.

What happened to SD, me or you aren't exactly the same, but all of them involve logical paradoxes.

People can make mistakes even when they double-check. If there is no chance that the software should cause glitches, then I believe that's the only explanation.

I just thought you should know that you are not the only one. When there is 1 or 2 people with real alibi whose traits are a match for a PE and that number is much smaller than those I'd have to check with the ones with false alibis, I also check PE with real alibi first. I was just as bewildered when the same thing happened to me. The only assurance is that the game doesn't go crazy like that, say, 95% of the time. That's if you are a 100% you did not make a mistake while checking.

Feb-9-2012 12:55

(Sorry, I hadn't seen your last post, I just jumped in on it)

Mar-12-2012 00:11

Hi everyone. I'm taking another look at these kinds of potential issues.

I started a new thread in Game Announcements to consolidate this conversation:

http://noir.playsleuth.com/map/cityhall/post.spy?id=34368