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Apr-13-2006 21:02

This is my skill : (tough smart)
Interrogation
Intimidation
Stress Detection
Footprint Analysis
Advanced Hair Analysis
Sweet Talking
Thread Analysis

+4 skill point

I got problem , almost my case end up in a DEAD END , because people often clam up , Intimidation, Interogation, Sweet talk doesn seem to work, because witness and town ppl hardly answer me ... It's useless having PE without people to ask ... it's very annoying
any advice friends ? how bout judge of character ? but my skill point is still low, Maybe I shoud resign and make a new better character

Apr-13-2006 21:18

You should contnue to do the easier cases and build up your detective.

Concentrate on one side, Tough rather than any charm skills.

As you slowly build up improve your Intimidation and Interrogation skills. That will get you more questions answered. As you do favors you will get gear that will help your skills more successful. It takes time, and if you concentrate on your strengths (tough side) you will recover and do well.

Apr-14-2006 01:26

I try with Hard level , when I solve the case, I didn't get any SP(skillpoint)
how frustrating hmmm , when I try REALLY HARD level , The people just dont answer or my skill failed ... but thx for the advice , I'll give it a try for a few days , see what comes up next ...

Apr-14-2006 02:09

After a few cases at a certain level you will only get skill points after every 2-5 cases. Then you 'graduate' to the higher level of difficulty and get them more often. And after awhile, you won't get them for many cases. Ran taught my alter-ego a lot about being patient with my detective's progress. It takes time to build a good detective. Read some of the other threads for advice on how. There is a lot of info out there written by some very excellent detectives.