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Sep-26-2006 11:24

Those of you who are familiar with other online RPGs have probably seen that a common feature on most of the games is that the player is able to see either on a bar or on a point scale, how long it is until a skill/level upgrade. In sleuth, the only way of knowing when you will get a new skill point is to count the cases, and even that will not be an accurate measure.

What i was wondering is... would it be possible to get some bar/graph/scale to show us how long until next skill point??

Sep-27-2006 22:26

This is not a game. We are real detectives. People are being murdered everywhere. You suggest that experience is a tangible number you can hold in your hands and count. Experience comes with learning. You cannot quantify it. Every night I return home to my apartment or HQ depending on what city I am staying in and sleep not knowing what will happen the next day. Will I be murdered in my sleep by some common crook in Delhi? Will another desperate client come looking for my services? As for the mention of this idea of "posting in threads", the only threads I have heard of are the ones I find at crime scenes. You people speak as if you do not live in our world, like perhaps you live in the future and are peering into this world for hours at a time.

Sep-27-2006 23:17

I agree that Sleuth doesnt need a skill bar... but i ask you this.. isnt life full of inventions and innovations that people didnt need, or didnt think they needed. What would the world be without people taking a chance on something new, people taking the plunge into the unknown..
When Electricity was discovered... did people think they needed it? NO
When the car was invented.. did people think they needed it? NO
So i say... let us all be innovators, let us all be risk takers and let us all take the plunge into the unknown....together!
*this is being spoken with some obnoxiously grandiose music playing in the background*

Sep-28-2006 00:27

I'm in agreement with anything that involves a bar.....(Hic!)

Sep-28-2006 02:29

I think the only things NEEDED in life are chocolate, chocolate, and chocolate. A good bar would be somewhere close behind. *grin*

Sep-28-2006 06:37

How about a chocolate bar?

Sep-28-2006 07:12

Chocolate is ALWAYS good hehe :o)