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Sep-23-2006 19:38

This is a whine ,, only a whine. My last 4 favors have been for the fortune teller. It would not be so bad if I did not already have the
fortune teller as my contact. I am trying to get my PE contact in London and have about 160,000 experience points.

Has anyone else been in a situation like this?

Nov-2-2006 18:09

So far Ben has not posted anythng about favors not being random, so the working premise still stands.

Chron has suggested that he knows a secret that let's him tell his team which of them will get which favor for a hunt.

If that is the case then Eye Spy and Hitchhikers London must know something because they both have many more hunts solved than ERF does lately.

But I still think that it is random and that those two agencies just do a lot of hard work to win their hunts.

Does anyone else know of what Chron could be talking about?

Nov-2-2006 19:22

I wish I knew too...one of my officers has been trying for the tailor and shoemaker for 2 months now :(

Nov-2-2006 19:56

I know of a system that was once talked about long ago in an agency I belonged to... and we pretty much ruled it out after about 3 months of studying if you could control what favors/contacts you got. But that was long ago, so it may be that something has changed....

However, I stand with Ran on this one: I call your bluff Chronestrian. Unless you can provide sufficient proof (or Ben states it is as you say it is), then I don't think you're right on this matter.


Cheers

~Jojo

Nov-2-2006 23:56

Your 'stats-based' rebuttal is invalid because ERF TEAM was shut down for over 18 months, as I've said before. Also, we don't participate in multi-city hunts. I'll say this though- I made my statement as the #1 ranked agent in an effort to give some enlightenment to those behind me. I will leave each and every one of you with this - when the #1 of ANYTHING offers some advice, don't you think it's wise to listen? ;-) HAPPY SLEUTHING TO ALL, and to all a good nite! lol

Nov-3-2006 00:12

Doesn't work Chron... I'm number 1 in my agency and even I won't listen to me... so what chance have you got mate :D

In fact every time I try to assert my number onedness, Paranoid reminds me that there's always someone better out there, and that eventually... I'll just be plain old number two. lol ;)

Nov-3-2006 00:19

dude, I'm #1 in the entire site! OK, I'm just gonna put it out there for everyone! Every townsperson in every city has a political affiliation, just like every agent. Know the affiliations....!

Nov-3-2006 00:51

Hey, well that's very clever. If you worked that out by yourself (and I'll just take it at face value that it's true) you deserve to be No. 1. Seriously. :)

Nov-3-2006 01:05

everything that is 'supposedly' random has a statistical equation. But I didn't work this out, I just observed it. As I said before, Kudos to Ben for making this game much more awesome than most of us realized! I also have charts for many other elements (but those will retire with my agent!).

Nov-3-2006 06:46

Chronestrian, I think you are the anointed sovereign of sighs and groans
*bats eyelashes

Nov-3-2006 07:42

Well, I only have over 18million points and over 5,700 cases solved, but hey, what do I know? ;-)