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River D
River D
Well-Connected

Oct-14-2006 17:35

Just a short post in which I would like to bring to discussion the recent spate of swapping items between agencies. I believe this is certainly unethical and takes away much of the challenge of the game. For obvious reasons I cannot be too specific, but it does not reward hard work and organisation, just laziness. It also abuses what the locker function is all about.

Obviously you cannot ban people from trading things between agency lockers and calling it unethical is not going to stop people doing it.

I would like to hear the Sleuth community's thoughts on the issue, I may be in the minority but from my initial feedback I feel like this has caused some distatste amongst some members.

Should the majority find this practice unethical I propose a 72hr cooloff period for locker access in agencies after having been promoted to agent or higher. This would also to a certain extent prevent immediate hit and run thefts that have happened from time to time.

Discuss :)

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Christopher Leroy
Christopher Leroy
Old Shoe

Oct-14-2006 18:02

New thought...

What about lone wolves, which the game has taken recent steps to provide more content? Detectives that choose to operate outside agencies voluntarily could potentially have 0% chance of reaching the new areas, because they choose to play the game alone. The only way they *could* access these areas is to join an agency where someone with the capability of obtaining a particular item could assist them.

Are we saying those detectives should be screwed by their own perfectly valid choices? I hope not. It just doesn't seem like a clear line between that and trading items between non-at-the-moment-teammates.

Also, consider the case of an agency who does not desire to bring in new detectives for whatever reason. If all their members are of a high enough experience, that whole agency is cut off from access to potentially necessary items. Should THOSE agencies be penalized for their voluntary, and to this point, perfectly accepted practice? I don't think so.

Because of the nature of this situation, I feel that the swapping that is currently occurring is necessary, and will continue to think so until the game mechanics are changed so that these "rock and a hard place" problems are resolved.

Christopher Leroy
Christopher Leroy
Old Shoe

Oct-14-2006 18:04

***previous comment based on the assumption that the relevant items are not 100% accessable to all detectives at all necessary times***

River D
River D
Well-Connected

Oct-14-2006 18:05

If it is not possible to access all items from cases at which all detectives can either currently complete or advance 2 from working then I would be willing to rescind my comment. Should all items be accessible from readily available sources then my original statements stand.

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Oct-14-2006 18:09

I was under the impression that all the items needed would be found on IH favors, seeing that pretty much ANYONE going to the new areas would have to be working AIs to even get to the new areas? I know favor level is based on how many youve done, but by the time you get to AI, most people have done enough to be up to IHs...

If this is wrong, I will take back what I said, but I don't believe that Ben would make this the case, KNOWING we couldn't get there on our own.

JimmyC 09
JimmyC 09
Old Shoe

Oct-14-2006 18:10

Maybe that's the point, biggie? To get us to work together?

Serges
Serges
Vigilante

Oct-14-2006 18:13

for the record, my double (Christopher Leroy) is in the middle of an AV hunt at really really hard favor level... Granted, this is by no means the norm, but it is possible to be below IH favors and be looking for IH items.

I also realize that my double will have access to IH favors in the very near future... just wanted to respond to biggie's comment about the situation.

I really think we need Ben to step in and define the scope of the items that are possible for this situation. Then at least we can either narrow or eliminate the argument.

sushi kitty
sushi kitty

Oct-14-2006 18:16

i was also under the same impression, biggie. I thought all items were from IH favors. If its not true, then why doesn't someone just let Ben know about this conundrum?

JimmyC 09
JimmyC 09
Old Shoe

Oct-14-2006 18:17

Maybe it's purposeful, sushi?

sushi kitty
sushi kitty

Oct-14-2006 18:18


Serges: "I really think we need Ben to step in and define the scope of the items that are possible for this situation. Then at least we can either narrow or eliminate the argument."

right-o. sorry, i didn't see your post; we must have posted at the same time.

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Oct-14-2006 18:18

If it is on purpose, and this is something we SHOULD be doing, I would love to have it clarified as I will be first in line to trade with someone LOL

Never let it be said that I'm not a hypocrite :D

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