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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-23-2004 01:02

I also have two people in the same house, on the same computer, that like to play this game, (my boy) and I. I have two agents, and he had one, but, since we can only have two agents per computer, he has not been able to access his agent! This is disappointing to him, esspecially since he had just convinced me to let him subscribe! Ben, please remove this restriction I know you were trying to make it more far, but I really don't think this is the answer!

Aug-23-2004 02:22

Or you could just retire your own second detective and let your boyfriend play his character instead ;)

I actually think it's more than fair only to allow 2 subscribed detectives per actual person/computer/account. In my opinion everyone should only be allowed to subscribe 1, and then those, who still wanted more cases to solve, could have as many unsubscribed detectives as they cared to remember the names of - or alternatively players could be allowed to subscribe more than 1 but only be able to have 1 detective per computer within a single agency.

There are several online games that only allow people to create 1 character per account/IP address/computer/person, and only if given explicit permission is multiplaying allowed followed by restrictions on the interaction of these characters.

I do sympathize with the room mates and families who want to work together, but I also think there's been an inflation in doubles (and what have you) around here - and all things being equal having several subscribed detectives does create an imbalance, especially in a game where the outcome of the main thing that people work together on can be affected by the number of characters that a single person has.

Aug-23-2004 02:25

And I apologize beforehand if by "boy" you meant "son" and not "boyfriend" :)

Aug-23-2004 02:27

It was just because you look quite young in your picture :)

Aug-23-2004 02:31

And not that young women can't be mothers too :)

Oh my, I think I better stop before I get in over my head.