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May-3-2007 12:37

Im a newbie, did not see this answered may not have been in the right area, I looked at the newbie faq but did not see this addresses.

Sometimes when I finish a case I will receive a Skill Point and other times I do not.

Why?

Respectfully submitted,
Madame Pamela

May-3-2007 12:55

It takes a certain amount of experience to earn a Skill Point. And, as the amount of experience you have accumulated grows, so will the amount of experience that you need to earn another Skill Point.

Hope that made sense! :)

May-4-2007 10:10

Sure did and thank you.

May-4-2007 19:55

BTW the newbie Faq is linked at the bottom of every page, in very smaal grey letters.
Also check the welcome newbie thread on the top of this board. There is lots of great info in it.
And if all fails, you can use search ;)

May-4-2007 20:30

You'll find that from now on, you prob'ly won't be getting a skill point every case like you have been. As Anikka said, as you get more and more advanced, the skill points come less and less often. Veteran (meaning extremely advanced) detectives generally earn a skill point only for every 50,000 exp. points or so.

May-6-2007 08:35

So the skill points are not related to the hardness of the case???
When I started getting only 1 skill point at intermediate, I thought the game was telling me I needed to start thinking of going to the next challenge level.

But now, I am thinking, as has been said, it is based on experience points.

A chart would be nice!

May-6-2007 08:52

In a way it is related to the difficulty of the case. The more difficult the case the more exp you get. So the harder the case, the fewer you have to do to earn a skill point.

At your level, increasing the case difficulty will still give you a skill point. Doing easy cases may take 3 or 4 cases before you get a skill point but the next level up may give you one for every case for a while.

Don't forget that it is okay to drop down a level if they prove to be too hard though.

May-6-2007 10:27

Just for added info:

To clarify...

1. Skill points gained are effected by the cases based on the experience they give you. And since higher difficulties give higher experience... well you do the math...

But...

2. Doing more easy cases than hard cases will lessen your sleuth's experience growth for the day since we only get limited number of cases per day.

3. Doing more easy cases than hard cases will also affect favor's difficulty. The more cases you have done, the higher the difficulty your favors will be. (The favor's difficulty have a limit, though. RRH I think...)

Sometimes, though, we need to solve multiple easier cases rather than 1 really difficult one if we can hardly solve the more difficult levels.

May-6-2007 10:30

Did what I write make sense?

Gaah... It's 1 a.m. here and I'm already half-asleep... I'll just correct myself later after I get some sleep.

May-6-2007 11:04

Favours top out at Incredibly Hard, and you can actually get some really decent gear as rewards at that level. Also, get the skill points and spend them wisely now, y'all - once you hit about 500 000 exp, you're only gonna be getting one skill point for every 40 000 exp or so :)

May-6-2007 13:46

Also correct me if i'm wrong someone, but cases don't affect the difficulty of the favour. I think somewhere I read that it is every 10 cases (no matter what level) before you jump to the next favour level. Although as Crunch say it tops out at Incredibly Hard.