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Mar-14-2006 21:36

I think shady is a great idea for controling how well people play. But on the other hand "unsolvable" cases and human error can cause fauls acusations way to easy. I think shady should be changed for this reson. How you ask?

I think the cost should be lowered. I found myself not being able to do any cases for weeks having my agency back me on money till I could pay him off. All because of two cases were evry clue pointed to a certain person but the case said I was wrong. I spent so much money on bribes for those cases just to find out those bribes were worthless.??? Thats not right.

Also I think as your skill level incresis so should the amount of false acusations your alowed.

Fellow Sluethers, what do you think?

Sep-5-2006 06:27

Balanced skills of Tough and Charm along with balanced gear. I have found that the low smart skill (one my standard outfit) has not hurt me because I get two or three more questions out of having the added charm/tough.

There are lots of stategies out there to try and possible combinations.

Sep-5-2006 07:26

To answer Crunch Patty and Roamie, the matching the innocent strategy works well even if you have multiples or even 3 of the same types of evidence. Just match innocent suspects to the evidence but don't blow the questions by confirming it.

In those cases the key is eliminating the non-same type of evidence. Such that if you have say 3 straight hairs and a heavy foot - work to eliminate the heavy foot and then you know your guilty person MUST have a straight hair.

If you have two straight hairs, a curly hair, and a heavy foot - again work to eliminate the curly hair and the footprint.

In those cases only ask the barber about innocent suspects with curly hair. IF you go through your 3-4 innocent suspects and you eliminate all of them and none have curly hair then your guilty suspect MUST be one with curly hair if you have also successfully eliminated the footprint.

Now you have just eliminated all suspects with straight hair and don't have to worry about them anymore.

I have successfully solved 14 out of my last 15 AI cases using this method, and my 1 quit I had only 2 suspects left but couldn't get W.E. to confirm which one was the guilty, so I quit.

It does take a slower, more deliberate use of questions to do it this way. Sometimes it takes me as long as 20 minutes or half an hour to solve a single case. But it works :>

Save questions, eliminate the evidence that is not multiplied and chances are good you will win the case.

Sep-5-2006 07:27

Serges is correct about having a good count. It helps a lot if you have only 3 valid alibis and 3 extra pieces of evidence. Even when you have too many valid alibis (either because that is how it worked out or because you somehow only got 3 pieces of evidence), you may get lucky and have the innocents share certain traits and not others so that you know which piece goes where. See my example above.

Sep-5-2006 07:29

My favourites are definitely the ones with 4 pieces of evidence and 3 suspects with real alibis :)

Sep-5-2006 10:16

hehe Greyling if only that worked all the time.

Ran I think you have something with the tough/charming combination but I think you need to have both charming and tough skills don't you?

Sep-5-2006 10:34

Yeah, for R Anstett's way to work you would have to have all of the skills. For those of us who haven't played the game long enough to have developed all of the skills, we'll have to work it a different way.

One day though, we'll have em all. :>

Sep-5-2006 12:25

Yes to Biggie (thank you Al)

The combo I have only works if you have all the Charm and Tough skills.

It can work for you without them, but then you have to be more one sided. If you are lacking some of the tough skills then add more tough gear.


I am always tweaking and looking for a little edge somewhere.

Dec-14-2006 14:15

The better we become, the more we're penalized? In my view, Shady is nothing more than a reincarnation of Moloch!