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Oct-21-2004 22:39

I am frustrated and need some advice. My question is why do we have clues like footprints and handwriting ect? I keep having cases where "Mary's" footprint is at the scene, "Joe's" handwritten note is at the scene, and "Karl" is the murderer. What good do clues do me if I can't rely on at least one of them to belong to the murderer? THey point me in the wrong direction more than the right. WHAT am I doing wrong??? Please help, this is causing me to loose interest in this game that I love!

Oct-22-2004 01:09

You should be able to rely on one, but only one, of the pieces of evidence belonging to the murderer. Think of it - there's a location where a body was found. All sorts of people who know the victim have been there, so they left little bits of physical evidence behind, but they each only left one.

All you need is to find which piece of evidence matches up with the person with a false or a stated non-alibi (ie, not just someone who clammed and wouldn't tell you about an alibi). According to Ben, no physical evidence is ever linked to the suspect cleared by research, by the way.

You can use a process of elimination as well - if Joe and Mary have evidence linked to them from the scene but both have valid alibis, and Karl is tied to the only remaining evidence but clammed up about his alibi, you know he is guilty because the others aren't. The killer always leaves one piece of physical evidence.

I suppose it's also possible you are not finding all the evidence at the scene? If that's the case, you'll want to build up your evidence skills and wear good smarts gear to the crime scene if you can. Or you can ask a member of your agency to search your scenes for you while you build up your skills.

I don't know exactly how the evidence varies from level to level, but in the hardest cases there should be four pieces of physical evidence.

Oct-22-2004 16:28

That makes a lot of sence, when I started the game I didn't know what skills I needed, and now and finding out I don't have the ones I needed first, so I am not getting all the evidence at my scenes!!! Thank you soooo much moonshh, that was a big break through for me!

Oct-22-2004 18:28

You're welcome!

Nov-17-2004 22:07

Hey Moonshh, thought you'd like an update. Doing so great now. Thanks for the tips, now I am discovering the funner ways of solving a case, rather than ask and ask, then ask till they clam.

Nov-18-2004 00:36

Awesome! I am so glad to hear it! I bet you're enjoying agency life, too!

Nov-18-2004 18:06

We love updates!

Nov-25-2004 18:33

Agency life is GREAT. I really like where I am and am having a great time. There really is no better way to play. (Shameless plug to all the newbies out there! For a few bucks a month, you can join an agency and the game only gets better from there!)