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Jul-31-2007 07:23

Surely someone else than me must've noticed that if one suspect easily clams they all do, and the townspeople don't and vice versa. And so on and so forth. I assume it's got something to do with the "same thing behind door 2" rule, no? It's useful to me in that I use my questions more economically when I notice what pattern the current case follows. Any thoughts on this?

Jul-31-2007 10:16

I've just had a rubbish days worth of cases due to all my suspects clamming and it being the same story with the townspeople... i had only revealed like 4 suspects before the case came to a stand-still and i think i understand the concept of the game, i didn't feel it was because i sucked. I was doing hard cases, while having very hard available, and have +6 charm which i thought was good for a new detective. Guess its back to intermediate but they're too easy...

Its very frustating.

Jul-31-2007 11:09

Eva Rose! Get some clothes on. Walking around with nothing but a hat, bracelet and an umbrella? I'm not sure I'd talk to you either :)

Jul-31-2007 13:11

lol! :) I figured if i wore no clothes that i wouldn't have to bother with the flirt skill ;)

Jul-31-2007 16:25

This whole 'random' thing is lost on you Jim isn't it lol. I bet you love a good conspiracy theory too :)

Sometimes there just is no 'angle'. The game randomly generates a plethora of statistics upon which your case will ebb and flow, or stagnate and die.

Who was it the other day that said some days your the windshield and sometimes you're the bug?

And yes, that is what either makes your day very frustrating, or really good :)

The only thing you can do is advance, build up your own personal stats, and give yourself the best possible opportunity you can to offset the randomness of the game.

Jul-31-2007 17:43

I would think that in the over three years that sleuth has been played by some of the best and brightest on this site, if there were patterns such as these, they would have been discovered a long time ago. There doesn't seem to be a master plan, to me at least.

And Eva, there's flirting, and then there's running around nekkid :)

Jul-31-2007 23:14

Ok. I see what you're getting at, but don't put blinkers on because something I wrote in a different thread. There is the "Serge's law of two"? And in the same way how hard suspects or townspeople, but not both, are to interview seem to be connected.

The other thread I posted about my little system was perfectly out of the game engine and just my funny little project, but surely someone else than me must've noticed this pattern.

There's sound sceptisism and there's sceptisism. And right now it seems like you're seeing patterns in my "pattern seeing" when there are none. ;)

Aug-1-2007 04:26

Ok, then, I reserve the right to judge until you show me some evidence :)

And don't go by Serges, he's widely known as a crack baby ;)

Aug-1-2007 10:45

It just keeps going and going. You can even tell approximately how hard they will be to convince by looking at the case tab first thing after getting the intro. The number of suspects will give you a hint I think, though I haven't proof of this one yet. I'm still trying it out.

Also, which fits with my first notion, I'm beginning to wonder if the total number of questions the suspects answer is fixed (or at least don't differ more than plus or minus one question or so) and the only random part in the interviewing is *when* the clamming occurs. Have anyone counted? More questions on lower difficulties and less on higher. They clam really fast on easier cases as well sometimes. I'm testing this out as well at the moment.

Aug-1-2007 15:02

I've got stupendously hard pegged at 0 questions +-1
Incredibly hard is probably at 1 qstn +-1

Here's an odd pattern; for the last ten days twenty or more suspects that were pointed to by physical evidence have had their alibies with the townie that checks the evidence in question.

I've taken to check an evidence against related alibies first and I've been right more often than not.

Aug-1-2007 21:56

Guys, pay attention here.

THERE IS NO PATTERN.

It's completely random. Get judge the character skills and use it so you can see that probability of asking.

I don't mean to sound rude, but c'mon. If there was a pattern....

1. Someone would have found it by now

2. Ben would have changed it

If you think you have something with a pattern, follow it and pay Shady!