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May-2-2006 19:22

Is there a certain number of suspects who have fake or no alibi that you have for a certain level? For instance, on Intermediete Level, when I have 2 or 3 people with fake/no, and I don't want to use up my Sweet talking on asking about people with motive if I don't have to, and I've interviewed everyone, does that mean there is another suspect I don't know about? Hope y'all can understand what I'm trying to say :)

May-2-2006 20:15

Actually, The Sleuth Helper is outdated (Only in the difficulty details), in my opinion. The number of suspects is not always correct because of the randomness in random mysteries.

May-3-2006 01:14

But there still is a pattern to the randomness for which reason it's really a shame that the Sleuth Helper hasn't been updated because as it is, it can be quite confusing for newcomers if they trust it too much.

If you want an updated version of the numbers for the various levels, Dixie, you can send a PM to Reda or Lady Emerald Devon and ask if one of them will send it to you - I think they both have one if I remember right :)

However, even with that at hand, it can still really pay off to use the Fortune Teller as Ran mentioned, because of the randomness within each level :)

May-3-2006 10:56

OK, thanks y'all :)

May-3-2006 11:32

With my own experience of the levels, I can safely say that:
Intermediate 3 Fake/no alibi
Hard 4 Fake/no alibi
Really Hard 4
Really Rally Hard 5
Incredibely Hard 5

Beyond that I have no clue since I havent gone that far.

May-3-2006 11:35

Once you have that number of fake/no alibi suspects, there is not much need of asking people for motive cos u know the rest will have a real alibi.

u can ask the townies if they've heard anything suspicious, and u'll get a few more names.

May-3-2006 11:58

Actually, I've seen 4 Fake/no alibi in Intermediate quite a few times now... Just a word of warning there, it caught me quite a bit at first - and cost me a character.