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Mar-16-2004 11:45

Woah. This guy wants to charge me $20,000 instead of the $800 or so before, what gives? Does this mean you should just clear stuff early on? This is painful.

Apr-28-2004 14:19

The other problem with a long string of successful cases is that if you are generally playing hard cases (for the sake of argument) you could just take beginner cases until your name was clear.

Sep-11-2005 18:33

*reads through the old thread with interest*

Well if they only knew how bad it would really get....

*wishes there was another break in the formula somewhere along the way*

Sep-11-2005 18:40

Yes, if I make a mistake now, I am going to be paying for it for a LONG time...

Sep-11-2005 19:13

it is funny to see someone like Fat Chuck say that he had to save up $2000.00. Reminds us that we all started at the beginning.

Sep-13-2005 14:18

Newb question, but how does one go about 'clearing' ones record? :s

Sep-13-2005 14:21

go the shady character at the back of the bar and pay him some money.

Sep-14-2005 03:15

Oh man, dusting off the cob webs off this thread CFM. :)

Sep-27-2005 17:18

If the idea was to make it cost about 4 days of work to clear the record why not have the payout option and then a "lie low" option. The former would follow the formula already set up and the latter would prevent you from doing anything that would aquire you or your agency any fame and remove some of the higher difficulty/higher paying case levels.

If a real detective messed up and falsely accused two people, he'd likely need to stay out of the limelight, take some basic cases for a while, until the whole thing blew over.

Just a thought

Oct-1-2005 14:23

One thing I would like to see is the actual number of times we have made a false in addition to the current number.

Sort of that secret file we keep in the drawer that haunts us at night.

I try very hard not to drop cases, to solve every one. I have a drop rate right now of about 1.5% (5 drops) but I know that is deceptively low because I have about 8 or 9 falses also. I would like to know what my real success rate is.

Oct-3-2005 11:42

The most obscene price I have had to come up with was $65,308 to give shady. It was a stupid really. I just clearly was not paying attention.(After 6 1/2 hours of sleuthing I spaced out and clicked the person with a very similar name as my guilty suspect (Adelaide instead of Adelarde or something like that). I DO NOT take risky guesses now with my exp growing. We also have someone in our agency with a FA that will cost just over $100,000 to remove.

YIKES!!!!

Advice to sleuthers new and old.... better to have quit and been safe than to have to sell off everything to pay shady. :) Afterall, there are no reprecussions for having too many quit cases. Just a feeling of complete depression and inadequacy ... lol.


*reflects on her last visit to shady and quickly heads to visit cyrus to try to drink away the memory*