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AraLives
AraLives
Battered Shoe

Jul-4-2006 13:50

http://newyork.hypoware.com/map/cityhall/updates/villains.spy

Wow. Seriously, wow.

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R Anstett
R Anstett

Jul-14-2006 07:38

Yes Badass, I have been working with the people in our various agencies on preparing them for that.

There will be new skills to learn but just as we always talk about with the faction skills they will likely only be useful if you have have a full set of the interview and smart skills.

I am looking forward to the skills for tracking villians.

This is also why I suggested in a different thread that skill points should be 'frozen' when you have all the available skills so that we can not swoop in to just buy up new skills like this. Everyone would have to earn and learn about them together.

BadAss
BadAss
Charioteer

Jul-14-2006 09:40

Allright then, I was thinking of buying "underworld connections" next but I'll hold my horses for a while :)

R Anstett
R Anstett

Jul-14-2006 09:42

Ahhhh, you have me on edge with that one.

Underworld is worth the price of subscription alone I think. If you said pick pockets, hypnotism, safe cracking I would say hold off. But, underworld is a darn cool skill to have.

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Jul-14-2006 10:10

If you think about it, every detective in here who has been subbed for awhile with high exp. has a little bit of an advantage as the rest of us will have to earn a skill at a time, when some can buy probably three or four at a time? Not that I mind, but it might tip the scales in their favor for awhile? Anyone have any thoughts on that?

BadAss
BadAss
Charioteer

Jul-14-2006 10:54

Well, uhmm, we could all turn in our faction skills we gathered already and start from zero again. For me that would be a loss as I have 3 of them already :)

I'm sure the people who have purchased "pick pocketing" wouldn't mind this second chance...

Neritina
Neritina
Well-Connected

Jul-14-2006 10:58

You piss me here R are you telling that:
All smarts skills and all charms OR toughs skills (factions skills excluded) will give acces to the arch villians skills?

biggie I don't think that there is so much detective who have a lot of skills points waiting I have more than 4000000 off them and I still need some more to get pugilism.

Neritina
Neritina
Well-Connected

Jul-14-2006 11:02

Oups I probably used a bad spelling read* afflict me*.
If yes that to bad for me, it seems that I haven't followed (or also read) your hint.....

Neritina
Neritina
Well-Connected

Jul-14-2006 11:26

Plus the main goal of an extension is to allow(/convince) the gamers to player longer, so it's good if the game keep some great promise for the future and not deliver everything in the 2 or 3 first months.

An other point I don't know how the new skills could avantage or disavantage some players as I don't know them.
Maybe some players coulds be disavantaged because they keep a lot of points since a long time (that's not really interesting).
other ones could be disanvantaged because they bought every thing that they could (like me) and will now have to work really hard to get skills points.
Finally younger detective could be avantaged because they will be able to choose their strategy .
The most important think is that every body can have fun :)

Personnal thoughs:
Why do I feel stupid posting three time in a row :(

cfm
cfm
Nomad

Jul-14-2006 12:17

Let me see if I can help Neritina....

Ran is just stating what everyone will pretty much agree on, a full set of interview skills, whether charming or tough, and your smart skills is really the most important part of building an effective detective. Without those skills, you won't be able to solve cases, because people start clamming up. Any other skills are secondary. The new skills are likely to be advanced skills, for harder cases or to just make life a little more convienent, not basic necessities.

I'm afraid you are misunderstanding the skill point debate a bit. You have over 4,000,000 EXPerience points, not skill points. Skill points are what we need in order to purchase new skills, the ones that for detectives like you and I only come once every 50,000 EXP points or so.

((And this was a concern when we were given our new cities as well, and I was one of those detectives with no stored skill points at the time. Trust me, it all works out. Don't begrudge the older detectives just because they have a little savings. They worked hard for it. Last time Ben even gave us a new level of cases that allowed the younger detectives to earn EXP and skill points in fewer cases than the old farts. ;) It actually became an advantage because they went out bought the skills, found out how they worked, and as Neritina says, helped me figure out what I really wanted to spend my points on when I got there! ))



R Anstett
R Anstett

Jul-14-2006 12:20

No I was not saying that you need all the exsisting skills to learn the new ones.

What I was saying is that I have a slight bit of an advantage because I have extra skill points laying around that I have not used. I do not have to make the choice of choosing an existing skill or one of the new ones. There are many other players who have been around longer than I who will have more than enough skill points built up to aquire all the new skills right away.

As you pointed out the importance is to have fun. I look at it as an opportunity to try out a few new wrinkles in game play.



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