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Aug-19-2004 19:34

Ben. I'm going to voice this now and see if anyone else agrees with me. I feel that it is VERY shady that Heaven's Gate Det. Agency won the last treasure hunt. The character "intra", (not ".intra" or "intra.",) seems to have joined their agency long enough to have gained the treasure, and then retired. Now, while I don't mind an agency getting a treasure, I DO mind when it looks like there was quite a bit of suspicious play around the gaining of it. I don't know whether the current directors of the HGDA made up new characters, paid for them, and then were trying to get rid of the evidence? Or if there were some "mercenary" character out there, who just picks random names out and solves cases for favors for a random reason. However, I must say I'm very displeased with this occurence. I don't know how much I can really do here other than to voice myself.

Aug-20-2004 18:50

Ibragimov... 5 days old and 120 cases attempted (or 24 cases/day). I'm impressed. I can only usually complete 10 to 13 cases per day, depending on how many favors I get and what I've saved up. Tell me, how do you do it?

Aug-21-2004 01:55

share :)

Aug-21-2004 01:57

i got given few cases when i was in other agency and when new members come and die the cases stay and my friends in agency dont play they give all cases to me, cause im online most of the day

Aug-21-2004 01:58

an whats with Sly Fox Detective Agency its a second guy trying to go at me?

Aug-21-2004 10:22

Go? What do you mean? Just interested is all.

Aug-21-2004 13:41

you are second guy who is hasseling me from the agency just wondering if you organised to hassel me

Aug-21-2004 17:14

My spouse and I use the same computer, & today he was going to create a new character Papa Wolf, and join Lone Wolf Agency, but I asked him to take over Goldfinger and save us money, and since I already built the experience points for that character he might as well use Goldfinger, at which time he agreed. I called Ben and told him what I was doing that I was both characters, then I wrote him a letter, along with our check, paying for goldfinger's subscription,explaining, that my spouse is going to take over goldfinger's character. It would not be fair to not allow two people in the same household to not use the same IP address and be able to play together in the same agency. Of course, my spouse wants to be a part of his wife's agency. In fact, he is the one that created the name "Lone Wolf Detective Agency", because he liked it, so I went with what my wonderful husband desired. The only way around this would be to buy another computer so he could have his own IP, which we can't afford.

Aug-21-2004 17:20

Besides, it's silly to get so upset about one person using two characters in an agency. If you've never done this, then I can promise you it is a lot of hard work, and almost not worth the effort. Before I brought goldfinger in to Lone Wolf Agency, I subscribed her only for the sole purpose of helping Chicago Agency out, when we didn't have enough help with threads, or lacked a Tailor, however, when a tailor came in, and I left, and since I didn't have any help, or a Tailor contact period, I used her and still use her to check everyones threads, however, her password is on our private message board so that everyone can use her as needed. The eight cases goldfinger gets, is divided amoung each detective there, which equals to being given free cases from any other agent, like it was in Chicago, when they didn't have time to solve them.

Aug-21-2004 17:35

Also, since trying to use goldfinger to check cases, I rarely get to solve cases for Daru. It is extremely difficult to jump back and forth from one character to the other to check cases, so that is why all agents is welcome to use goldfinger's tailor contact so they can check threads, & help keep cases processed. Lately I have opened goldfinger's cases, worked them, then gave them to the other agents to help them build their experience points. Anyway, my spouse will continue letting everyone use goldfinger to check threads until we find a tailor, at which time the password will be changed.

Aug-21-2004 18:33

Now concerning huge experience points by agents that owns an agency in a short period of time, I am one of those people that recently opened Lone Wolf Detective Agency, and has well over one million in experience points. These points were not made in a few days, in fact, I when I left Chicago Detective agency I had almost reached the one million mark. When I joined Chicago three months ago, two brillant and wonderful agents, Greyling, and DL, took me under their wings and told me what I was doing wrong and taught me how champions win.If it hadn't of been for them I wouldn't have the experience points I do presently. During my three months stay with them, I worked every day for endless hours solving my eight cases, two favors, plus any EXTRA FREE CASES they let me have. Which is the same difference in Goldfinger giving her cases to the agents in our agency. Anyway, when I joined I was solving the easy cases, but once I caught on, within a little over a week, I went from solving the easy ones, to the ridiciously hard cases. I'm praying that we'll get the agents we need to help cut down on my work load, although I'm not complaining, because I love helping others out.