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Aug-27-2004 13:18

Ben, please help! It appears that one of our agency members took things from the locker, then promply quit our agency. She is still currently wearing the exact items we're missing, and she's brand new to the game, so she has had no chance to win the EXACT items we lost the day before she quit. Is there anything we can do, or should I send her a message myself? Please help!

Aug-27-2004 13:28

It happens, unfortunately. I am curious to see the outcome of this, too!

Aug-27-2004 13:35

the only thing you can really do is to keep a new person as a rookie until you know whether you can trust them or not. unfortunately it's happened before and i'm sure will happen again.

Aug-27-2004 13:46

Ben should change it so you can't logout w/ equipment from the locker. Maybe he could give the directors or officers power to make certain equipment a permemant part to the locker that can only be used while the player is logged in. Also prevent others from selling other people's equipment

Aug-27-2004 14:34

Maybe this person didn't do it on purpose?

BUT I think it would be helpful if something in our locker told us who brought what - like a nameplate on the gun, or a nametag in the coat - because even I can't quite keep straight my "own" stuff. Not that I care if other people use it - if I should ever leave my agency, I would have to leave everything, because I haven't been keeping notes on what I earn or sell. (And I only sell the stuff that would be useless to the agency anyway.) This may be a tangent to the real issue at hand however -

Was this an act of intentional sneakiness and treachery? Because if so, this is the kind of intrigue that I don't enjoy and don't want to be part of the game!

Aug-27-2004 15:15

Well it is doubtful this happened by accident. You don't by accident sell first all of your own items, and then take 4 items out of a locker, all of which carefully picked.

I am not surprising that this happened. Like in real life, you sometimes think you are part of a community, and then someone stabs you in the back.

Then again, some of us truly look at this as a game, where there are no rules or borders. And cheating an agency out of equipment, is part of the game.

I am actually a trained lawyer, but refuse to practice my profession, because of the simple realization that I could not hide behind things like "everybody deserves to be defended." Other people, truly live and breath by this rule. And feel that a defendant should get off, if their lawyer plays the game well.

However, as in real life and in here. Game or not. Behind each detective, and each agency there are real people. This unfortunately in our agency, caused some distrust. A matter of "who has done it?", "who in the agency can not be trusted?"

Perhaps some of the agencies should get together, and create a black list. I for one, would answer a director of any agency who this detective was, if they would directly ask me.

There are many directors, whom help out directors of other agencies. I think this is really cool. When we have months of trying won our first treasure hunt, the first congratulations actually came in was from Bella Luna, she had been rooting for us to win one.

That's just really cool. This doesn't make her a cool detective, but a cool person behind the detective.

Aug-27-2004 15:28

yeah, my sypmpathies are with you since that happened to us a while ago,

Aug-27-2004 16:13

The problem is when our locker got full and there was a lot of stuff we didn't need we sold the cheap stuff because nobody used it anymore. so you really can't label your stuff.I mean you really don't want like a magnifying glass hanging around.

Aug-27-2004 16:14

Thanks Fonzie. I am just glad, that the directors are speaking up about it now.

Aug-27-2004 16:16

Yeah the pain is, some equipment you can buy new. But once you are already playing at incredibly hard favours, there is no way you can replace a white lab coat. Unless there is someone in your agency that is playing at lower level, and happens to get it.

Aug-27-2004 16:31

our locker was far from full, and the locker had some pretty nifty things in it, but when i got back, there was just a scarf and a switchblade or two, i do have my suspicions but i wont say who