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Zoriah Bastin
Zoriah Bastin

Sep-20-2007 00:33

I read somewhere that it might take a long time, say 150,000 exp - especially if you are trying to get them both in the same city.

I am a little confused though because I checked some fellow detectives in the high score area and I saw that some people with well under 100,000 xp have 3-4 contacts, sometimes 2 in the same city. I saw one lady detective with about 163,000 xp and about 7 contacts. How is that possible? These were journeymen detectives I was checking out. Yes, I am a little ambitious and rather anxious to acquire a PE contact. ;)

I guess my question is...do the contacts you show have anything to do with belonging to Agencies? I mean I checked the agencies but even then different people had differing numbers of contacts and different ones, so that doesn't seem to be the case.

Is the best thing for me to do, if I want a PE (since I have the WE contact in NY), just to keep turning over the cases and favors in NY and hoping I get lucky eventually?

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Lady Jas
Lady Jas
The Chosen One

Sep-20-2007 07:07

I found that when I did my contacts, I'd travel to a city stay there for a few days, and by day 4 I'd have both my contacts, and then head on and travel to the next city.

Arabella Parker
Arabella Parker
Well-Connected

Sep-20-2007 12:32

No, you can not travel with a case open. So you can not open a case in NY with 4 threads and use your London Tailor contact.
Yes, agencies are very helpful for using contacts of others in the SAME city. If your case has 4 threads, and your contact is the barber, you can store your case and ask (Joe) who has the tailor as a contact to run the physical evidence. Then all you have to do is match the physical evidence findings with someone who has a fake/no alibi. Again, it all has to be within the same city.

All my contacts came before I hit 150,000 exp. I moved around a lot chasing treasures. Yours will come, but like others said, it is very random.

Breitkat
Breitkat
Pinball Amateur

Sep-20-2007 12:57

Also, if you move to a new (contact-free) city, you could wind up with a W/E contact OR a P/E contact, depending on which one comes up first in the system. Like the others have said, the process is completely random. You could have a gut feeling you're about to get a contact, and nope, no go, or *POOF*, there it is, when you least expect it.

Contacts only work on cases in the SAME city as the case they're in, unfortunately (trust me, I've tried that one too ;-), and like Arabella said, you can't travel when you have an open case to solve on your screen.

Dave and I both got all our regular contacts (excepting Cairo) just under 2 mill. exp. each. I got 'em hunting treasures, like Andrea. Dave was going after feet people, specifically, so he took a bit longer to get his. We were about average, in my experience. Some people I've worked with have taken over 3 mill exp. to get all theirs. Some take less than 100k (they tend to just take the first ones they can get, and have been very, very lucky).

You'll get 'em. You're just starting out. Be patient. Half the fun of all of it is seeing the announcement at the end of a favor, saying so-and-so will help you out anytime you like. It makes it worth it. ;-)

Zoppini
Zoppini

Sep-20-2007 21:36

I just found this thread and if I read it correctly you only can have two contacts per city, one PE and one WE?

Lady Jas
Lady Jas
The Chosen One

Sep-20-2007 22:04

Yes, that is correct!

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