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Aug-12-2006 21:11

Maybe it's just me... But I experienced it became a tad more difficult lately to solve AI cases. More & more suspects seem to clam up right from the start and the townies can't come up with names so the list is not complete. More & more cases with 3 or even 4 PE suspects clammed up. Or what about a case with 4 threads and 3 suspects referring to the tailor for their alibi's...

My surveillance skill seems to be of futile use now....


Is this in any way related to the upcoming new features (avoidance of building up too many unspent skill points)?????


Everyone: NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

:-)

Aug-12-2006 21:29

Hmm could be coincidence, but I was thinking the same thing... I'm lazy and usually quit cases before I start them, if they don't have two pieces of evidence where I have the contact, but I've actually been quitting cases in the middle of them, where I couldn't get a full list etc, and I hardly ever do that. lol and boy am I glad I didn't click on surveillance the other night, when I wanted to get it. :D
*sighs* S'prob just cooties syndrome, you know when someone says their child came home with headlice from school, and you automatically start scratching, regardless of the fact you haven't got them yourself. :s

Aug-12-2006 21:36

I have all skills now and ive found that having the choice of being mean or nice makes a big difference to people clamming and suvveilance works more often if you are wearing smart clothes so if I really need it to work I will change but it still doesnt always work just improves the odds

Aug-12-2006 21:36

I think it is just a normal random cycle. We seemed to run into the same problem two weeks ago, but now are back to normal. Just bad luck some days.

Aug-12-2006 21:44

I'm sure you have a point there Woody, and I admit I'm often too lazy to visit the locker ;)

But my point was that cases seem to harder NOW than before, and bad days do exist but bad weeks?

Aug-12-2006 21:49

I rarely have a suspect that wont answer at least 1 question but probably average 3 a case that that is all they answer

Aug-12-2006 21:51

The arch villians seem to be having some fun right now making life hard for you people, huh? See, we started educating the criminals so you would have a difficult time catching them. HAHAHA!

Aug-12-2006 22:09

BadAss, I have noticed in the last few days that, regardless of the amount of gear I have on, the first (sometimes first and second) suspect will clam, which is unusual...But I just tossed it up to bad luck due to random generation as Ran mentioned. I'm hoping that is all that it is, but still...it makes you wonder.

Also, I've noticed in the same span of time that even when having +20 Smarts gear on the odds of my having one or two pieces of evidence unidentified (as straight/curly etc.) has increased greatly.

Here's hoping it is just randomness at work and not the diabolical arch villians making our cases harder :)

Aug-12-2006 22:18

LOL, hello Ben could you reveal something to us?


Hmmm.....

Aug-12-2006 23:53

I am with Woody on this one Bad ass. Judge of Character is shockingly necessary in the AI cases, maybe a bit more so recently but i am not sure. I have had shockingly low base numbers recently ( number in JOC before adjustments) as low as like 12 for AI cases, which used to be very rare. Surveilance.... well surveilance is useless i think, at least as it works now. In full smarts in a favour case it will work one in three times, in an AI it is more like maybe 1 in 5.

Aug-13-2006 00:00

I thought I was just having a really bad day. Considering the day before I bought advanced intimidation and then I couldn't get any of the townies to talk. Ben couldn't you have given us a warning?