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Skyler Michaels
Skyler Michaels
Well-Connected

Sep-4-2004 16:22

Ok this might sound like a wierd idea but hear me out.

Say your agency has 3 or 4 Shoemaker contacts. Now say somebody elses agency has like 3 or 4 Banker contacts. Say your agency only has 1 Banker contact, and you'd like to aquire another Banker contact. Well wouldn't it be a cool Idea if you could put in a feature where Agencies could make a trade with each other to help both agencies out with their needs?

I mean each agency only has a certain number of slots to hire people and once your full your full. A lot of the rookies you hire don't have contacts yet or if they do a lot have the second contact first. So how about being able to trade Detectives with each other. Just a thought.I personally think it would be a neat feature to add to the game how about some feed back.

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Skyler Michaels
Skyler Michaels
Well-Connected

Sep-4-2004 20:47

also it would only be where you traded your agents or rookies and you can only do it if your getting a different postion. you couldn't trade a banker for a banker. you have do banker for barber or 1 of the other two postions you need help at.

Orbitrux
Orbitrux
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Sep-4-2004 20:55

Well I suppose you could do this already by having one detective quit and the other join and visa versa.

However, I think that people don't do this because they enjoy the people that they are in their agency with and don't want to leave them, or perhaps feel a strong sense of loyalty to their agency.

Skyler Michaels
Skyler Michaels
Well-Connected

Sep-4-2004 22:04

Thats a good point. just thought it might make things interesting. we're all loyal to our teams. I've got a great staff. They are just tremendous. so the other suggestion is how about being abel to change some of our agents contacts and giving them banker or smething like that. Somehow give the directors the power to switch one of their players contacts. so if you have 4 shoemakers give the director the ability to switch their contact over to a postion you might need.

Orbitrux
Orbitrux
Well-Connected

Sep-4-2004 22:44

Or even just that ability for any individual agent to chagne their contacts--to be able to drop a contact and earn another one. Now there's an idea I can get behind.

castamir
castamir

Sep-5-2004 00:02

I like the idea of being able to drop a contact.

Dr. Falco Maltese
Dr. Falco Maltese
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Sep-5-2004 01:05

I've been thinking that one way to make the game more complicated would be to have the townspeople feud with each other the way the factions do. Maybe this wouldn't happen until a sleuth is quite established and ready for new challenges - but I can imagine that my Shoemaker contact could stop working for a while if he heard I did a favor for the butcher, against whom he was holding a grudge, or something like that.

It might then be possible to switch contacts the way that we now can laboriously switch affiliations.

I can get behind the idea of switching, or dropping and earning, but I don't think it should be too easy. Otherwise where is the challenge?

And without enough challenge, the game ceases to be as enjoyable - at least, that is my perspective.

Skyler Michaels
Skyler Michaels
Well-Connected

Sep-5-2004 11:37

Thats why i figure only the directors should be able to switch a team members contact and only in a limited role for a postion you need. so if you say already have 2 of something you can't switch a third over to that contact you can only have 2 at a contact. so what i'm saying is say you have 3 banker contacts in your agency and you have 2 shoemaker contacts. you couldn't switch one of the banker contacts to a shoemaker just because you felt like it because you already have two. so you'd have to switch the banker over to barber where you only have one. anyway just some food for thought.

Lisa Carol Freemont
Lisa Carol Freemont
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Sep-5-2004 12:00

Don't forget that there are hunts involved and agencies are in competition for those. So for example if I went and helped another agency and in the process win a hunt I wouldn't feel right about it, and what about the points we earn in favour of our agency by solving case? Do not like the idea of switching detectives very much also taking into consideration recent events ...

Lisa Carol Freemont
Lisa Carol Freemont
Well-Connected

Sep-5-2004 12:03

But I'm all in favour of being able to change a contact as long as skills and ability in the game are involved. I think that might solve the problem some agency are experiencing.

Skyler Michaels
Skyler Michaels
Well-Connected

Sep-5-2004 15:00

Yeah basically the point of this whole thread was to find a way to switch a contact it started out with the trade but then moved on to finding a way for the directors to switch someones contact who is already in their orginization.

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