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Apr-21-2004 11:14

I was just wondering could the city people you talk to during a case help you like for instance I had a case my only witness clamed up completely then I went back and she was dead. Of course I can not go any futher but when you talk to the city folk and the give a name can it apear so we can question them making it a double murder increasing your earnings or even if we are good in the fraction they can give a witness to help? just asking cause i so needed this favor completed for the treasure.

May-4-2004 17:14

I don't know if anyone's hit a "skill points to spare" situation yet. Certainly not me. Sirgarr or Chuck are the only people who could have done?

May-4-2004 17:19

And by the way, thank you guys for defending me :) I'm sure your objective opinions were in no way affected by us being in the same agency...

*Receives Jwonie's 'passive-agressive apology of the year' award with an emotional acceptance speech*

I AM glad no one was offended.

May-4-2004 19:20

I don't have any skill points to spare -- whiny Sleuth Admin :) is making it very very hard to get any more skill points I think ...

May-5-2004 06:12

Spare skill points? Where? I thought I might run into that eventually. I'm still expecting that maybe someday, in a thousand years or so, I might have every skill and then not know what to do with that one more point. I guess I could auction it off and become a billionaire!
:-D

May-5-2004 06:22

"Spare skill points? Where?"

Here. I honestly don't know what else I could buy with them. I have everything I need. :p

May-5-2004 13:22

3 - count 'em - 3 cases today where the 2nd or 3rd suspect clammed on the 1st question - Awesome.

May-5-2004 18:42

Negasong, I guess I don't have a lot of experience. It's only my second day. But if you seem to be having all this difficulty, maybe you are doing it wrong, or maybe you are trying to do ones that are too hard.
Boiled

May-5-2004 20:54

perhaps they are supposed to clam early, due to the difficulty? if you don't have good enough persuasion skills, the people who clam early are going to be big stubling blocks. if you can't convince them to answer enough questions, i agree it will be very frustrating.

I'll say what everyone else has said, that is: go down a level until they are easy to solve, then do them until you are REALLY comfortable with them. then try some harder ones. no one
is making you do the cases at a certain level.

i think all of us have run into this in varying degrees at some time or another.

May-6-2004 01:59

I don't think I'm playing over my head. I only get 1 skill point for every 4 really hard cases I take on, and before today, I solved about 20 really hard cases in a row, so I think it was just a really unlucky day for me.

May-6-2004 08:30

At 10000 experience, I would think that Really Hard should be about right. For you. It does sometimes suck to be at the whim of luck, but it is sort of inevitable with random mysteries.

The may be a bright side, though. It may be more frustrating to get stuck right off the bat, but at least you don't waste 10 minutes working on a mystery, only to get stuck at the end. Well, it could be a bright side.