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sirgarr
sirgarr

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.

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sirgarr
sirgarr

Apr-11-2004 12:47

Four days' worth of pay does sound reasonable. But even with solving incredibly hard cases, I think that only comes out to around $10000 in wages (I may be wrong).

Is the fee based on experience points, or the difficulty level someone is probably working on? Since someone with 500000 experience points and someone with 100000 experience points will work on the same cases (incredibly hard) and still make the same amount of money, it seems that they shouldn't be charged differently by the shady chracter.

Kitten
Kitten

Apr-12-2004 10:33

I'm only at around 13000 exp, but I felt worried about the same thing. I already had 2 false accusations and ultimately switched down to doing really hard cases instead of really really hard until I'd earned enough - you get only half the exp, but much more than half the money. I don't know if that's what you'd like the system to push players towards, though. The price just seemed to climb very rapidly, from 12000 to 16000 in the time I spent saving for the Shady Character (=less than a week).

I think 4 days' pay in itself sounds reasonable, but do take into consideration that the Shady Character's price keeps going up during those 4 days.

sirgarr
sirgarr

Apr-12-2004 19:53

Panic!! Two false accusations! Can this be fixed some time soon? Sob.

:)

reda
reda
Well-Connected

Apr-12-2004 23:02

i made it a habbit to "fix" it after every 1 false. still the shady guy took almost all i had, but maybe that is the answer: fix first and then work to get the money back. though it wont make me reach...

Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

Apr-13-2004 11:05

I've adjusted the the price of using the Shady Character downwards. This change only effects players with more than 10,000 experience.

sirgarr
sirgarr

Apr-13-2004 21:43

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet, thank you.

Kitten
Kitten

Apr-14-2004 08:01

Reda, the price is the same for 1 or 2 false accusations, so you're kind of throwing money away fixing it after one. Sleuth Admin has pointed this out somewhere, so I just thought I'd repeat his words of wisdom.

reda
reda
Well-Connected

Apr-14-2004 14:43

i thought he said price go up with experience. since i dont tend to get false so often i have much more exp when i get my 2nd false.

Kitten
Kitten

Apr-15-2004 08:44

You do...but if you hadn't paid for erasing your #1 false, you'd be paying for the first time with your #2 false. Complicated thought, let me try to explain it through an example.

Example:
False #1 - Option 1) Pay $1000 and go to 0 False
OR Option 2) do nothing.

False #2 - Option 1) You now have 1 false again, so according to your policy you pay $3000 to go to 0 false again OR Option 2) This is your second false, so you pay $3000 to go to 0 false.

Option 1) Total: $1000 + $3000 = $4000.
Option 2) Total: $0 + $3000 = $3000.

See -the second time around, you pay the same sum ANYWAY, whether it's your second false or another first false. You always pay extra when paying for first false. Or am I the one who's missing something? Entirely possible. My head and numbers don't really work together.

reda
reda
Well-Connected

Apr-15-2004 22:05

seems like u got it right. thanks :)

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