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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-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.

Apr-15-2004 22:05

seems like u got it right. thanks :)

Apr-22-2004 02:23

The shady character still seems to be toooo expensive. I just have one false accusation, and I'm not really worried to clear it up, because I don't usually have false accusations. (this is actually the only one ever).
But even if I wanted to clear it, I never seem to have the money to do it. After a day of work I always check his price, and it is always a bit more than I have. And it's not like I spend money around. I'm not in an agency, so I don't pay rent, and I never buy equipement (apart from a magnifying glass and a watch a loooong time ago) because stuff I get from favors are far better than what you find in the shop.

Anyway, although I don't actually spend money, I never seem to have enough money for the shady man. His price keeps going up as my money goes up.
I'm not really worried to clear my record, but I think he should be much cheaper.

Apr-22-2004 11:01

Is it possible to freeze the price at where it was when the second accusation was picked up?

Apr-22-2004 12:43

Feh.

Maybe I should have him offer a payment plan.

Apr-27-2004 02:59

I have a suggestion:
How about if you have a long series of successful cases (i.e. you solve all of them, w/o false accusations or quits) to get your record clean?

Apr-27-2004 08:09

No, I like having it a money thing. It is important for a virtual economy to have money sinks, otherwise cash will eventually become useless. There are very few real money sinks in this game (Rent, Bribes and Record Clearing), so I want to keep them all. The cost, however is open to negotiation.

Apr-27-2004 20:21

Hmm, yes you are right about the money sinks. I agree that you should keep them. I think many games have economy problems because of such issues.
It would even make sense to me to add more, like making a contribution to a faction to improve your standing. Btw, i agree with the opinion that was stated in some other thread, that you should give more importance to the mob, because now they aren't that special.

Apr-27-2004 21:01

i like the idea of contributions to factions... right now its near impossible to be good with 2 factions, and i have money coming out of my ears. (donated some 40k to agency safe). also it would be really cool to see what the other head quarters are like

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.