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Jun-21-2006 07:40

the game needs a ladder...a listing of individual detectives ( not agency success ) that moves a detective up and down the ladder
depending on solving a case, quitting a case, paying off shady, etc...
so that there is some reason to play the game other than to collect a treasure...fame is insufficient....it relates to the combined value of
the detectives in the agency and the large agencies not only have
a lead but don't allow fame to be a competitive standard for new
agencies or solo subsribers...a ladder..with all starting equally..
that moves you up or down on merits and demerits in the game
would be a competitive vehicle...also the ladder should only use
the first three games of any one day...allowing non-subscribers to be on the ladder equally with a subscriber and keeping a few players from dominating the ladder by playing all day...i stopped playing at the site because i could not see sufficient motivation to
compete to collect a treasure per se....a ladder as in chess or as they have on it's your turn playsite for the types of games they have
there would add a fun competitive dimension and would want you
to play at least 3 games a day...

Jun-21-2006 07:57

There is the high score list for detectives, and while it is hard for a non-subscribed detective to make it high on those it does happen once in a while. Nothing excludes people from those lists except how hard you work.

Fame is just one way of judging the activity of an agency. The very high fame agencies work very hard to get to that point.

I think your idea of wanting to get people to play at least 3 per day is very good, and that is the goal. To get people to subscribe so they can do more than the basic 3 cases per day.

I do question the idea of only the first three cases of the day. I think that would not give enough granulation to the formula you are trying to accomplish.

Jun-21-2006 09:11

I think this is already in motion. The weekly high score list goes solely on how many cases a person solves, how many the quit, and it determines who makes the list.

I would check it out and see if you have made it on the list.

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Jun-21-2006 23:38

miaooooow TR. Personally the only granularity I'm interested is in my coffee cup :D

Jun-21-2006 23:48

lol ss.

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Jun-22-2006 02:29

Weird to see this case of self-censorship :)

Jun-22-2006 02:30

Perhaps Ranstett meant "refinement" by using the word granulation...

Then again I'm not a native English speaker either.

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