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Kay
Kay
Well-Connected

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.

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Wayne Williams Jr.
Wayne Williams Jr.
Well-Connected

May-9-2004 10:34

Yes, I think the contacts who can analyse physicals are really much more useful than the others.

Firefly: Contacts are the townsfolk who will answer all your questions, no matter how many. How to get them? Do favors until one of them becomes your contact.

Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

May-9-2004 10:49

See, I'm still a little unsure about how to handle contacts. All of the possible solutions have their downsides:

1) If we leave it the way it is, it is pretty unfair. I think we all agree on that.

2) If I allow people to voluntarily give up contacts, everybody is going to end up with the same ones. Having two physical evidence contacts is pretty overpowered too. I would rather limit them to one per person...

3) If I add events where contacts kind of randomly go away, people will complain abou that, because people with good contacts tend to be attached to them. Also, detective agencies are often built around their member's contacts.

So, umm. What to do?


Ulysses Lear
Ulysses Lear

May-9-2004 11:02

Option 3 would be absolutely horrible, IMO. Losing a really good contact would be a major blow to any sleuth or agency.

I think that I may have a decent solution, actually, but let me ponder it for a few to make sure that it really makes sense...



Greyling
Greyling

May-9-2004 11:38

One possibility could be to have it as reward for the favours. So that for every 20 or 30 successfully completed favour we would be offered that person as contact for a while, but also so that we would always have to accept the new person and get rid of one of our old contacts??

sirgarr
sirgarr

May-9-2004 12:40

I like Greyling's idea a lot. (She must be in a DAMN AWESOME detective agency.) You make people change one contact periodically; then they can choose which old contact to let go of and hold on to the other repeatedly if they want.

Although agencies are built around contacts, if someone has two contacts that's not too cool -- this way they'll eventually choose which contact they have to drop.

Eliza Black
Eliza Black

May-9-2004 13:08

That's not a bad idea. That way, everyone would eventually be able to acquire and hold onto at one 'good' contact permanently, right?

Firefly
Firefly

May-9-2004 17:35

Cool thanks. Maybe as far as getting and getting rid of contacts, everyone would be able to change or get rid of just one contact ever, or per month or something... hmmmmmmmmmmm

astarael the sorrowful
astarael the sorrowful

May-9-2004 19:43

Yeah thats true greyling's idea is really good, and nothing would be permanent and you get an instant replacement

Dobalina
Dobalina

May-9-2004 22:39

I propose luck of the draw for the first contact, and for the second contact:

If the first contact is useful (tailor, cobbler, etc), then assign a less useful contact.
If the first contact is useless (priest, waiter, etc), then assign a useful contact.

For people with two useful contacts already, You taketh away.

Fair is fair, after all.

Ulysses Lear
Ulysses Lear

May-9-2004 22:53

Hrmm... Whatever happens, there should be a grandfather clause to let people keep their two good contacts if they already have them (and want to keep them). They earned them, after all.

(And I don't have two good ones, btw, so I can say that with very little bias...)

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