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Downloadable Scriped Mysteries?
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Heimlich VonVictor
Heimlich VonVictor
Vigilante

Jan-20-2008 12:48

I've had a couple of friends play through the scripted mystery that I submitted and ask me how to sign up for the site because they want to play more.

Now it's all fine and good if I'm with them at that very moment, and can log in under my name, go to London, and open the mystery from there, but what if I'm not the the area and I'm telling someone about it?

Would it be possible to make certain mysteries available for download as an executable in order to interest people in signing up for a subscription? I know it would make it easier for me to recruit people if I had something to give them, rather than making them sign up on the site and subscribe to play through the mystery.

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Stooby
Stooby
Well-Connected

Jan-20-2008 14:31

There is CTown. I agree, there's little sense in altering the rules to act as a tease for people to sub. I think it'd rather take away the point of subbing.

If they're good freinds Heimlich you could let them on as you to play it while you stand and stare over their shoulder to make sure they dont get up to no good!

Abraham
Abraham

Jan-21-2008 09:47

If a featured mystery was meant for teasing the unsubbed players, it need to be a New York mystery, as unsubbed are not allowed to travel.
But, I do agree with Jojo and Stooby.
May be if the mystery just let you ask the first 10 or 20 questions or something (including the obvious as if they know any other suspects, got alibi, verifying of alibi...). Perhaps that would make it even worse to stay away from subscribing than if you are not allowed to see anything?

Lady Zeugirdor
Lady Zeugirdor
Pinball Amateur

Jan-22-2008 00:02

Abraham, the Featured Mystery that is available for unsubbed players IS in New York. I think it is called "The Unread Will" .

Danger_Mouse
Danger_Mouse

Jan-22-2008 06:16

The free FM for New York is Murder in Manhattan by Buggles2000. I think it took over from Unread Will. But Unread Will is now subscriber only well from what I've checked out via an unsubbed alt. I have.

The only think I would add is that most of the FM's would require you to have some decent gear, and some reasonable skills to complete them. Opening up FM's to players that can't complete them, doesn't necessarily 'improve' the quality of play, or the games pulling power.



Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Jan-22-2008 06:17

^ me

Huglover
Huglover
Old Shoe

Jan-22-2008 07:35

I am sure Abraham knew that the Featured Mystery that are availiable for unsubbed players are in New York. I think that what he meant to say was that if other featured mysteries were to be availiable to the unsubbed players, it could not be in London (or you needed to implement some kind of mystery teleportation).
Also, the main point for the posting was the idea of allowing just a minor peek into the (other) mystery(ies) rather than giving them full access.
Please forgive Abraham for not mastering the language to the degree that everyone reading what he have written understands the thought behind.
He is a foreigner, have always been, and will always be.

Stooby
Stooby
Well-Connected

Jan-22-2008 08:35

I think, to add one more thought into the pot, that using Scripted Mysteries as a lure to get people to play Sleuth would be missleading. They are not the main focus of the game - the random cases are and these are fully available to unsubbed players.

Breitkat
Breitkat
Pinball Amateur

Jan-22-2008 18:33

Abraham's language skills look just fine to me, Huglover. He writes quite well in English, native-speaker or not. I think he deserves some respect for that, don't you?

As for the issue in this post, I do see a certain validity to Heimlich's request to make the featured mystery that's currently available to unsubbed players (whichever one it is at whatever time; yes, it has changed from time to time) available for possible download as an enticement for potential subscribers. Since it's already available to basically anyone who wants to play it here, it wouldn't be that big a difference to make it available offline (in my opinion, anyway). Abraham's point of making it a limited download may also be a good idea. Ultimately, this is something that would have to be decided by Admin, and evaluated for how much it would add to or detract from their business. The 'mystery teleportation' idea of Huglover's, though, isn't likely to happen, both from a programming and a realism angle. Sorry, Huglover.

Huglover
Huglover
Old Shoe

Jan-23-2008 13:38

As Abraham and I are like one, I say thank you, Breitkat, for the nice words about our(my) language skills. :-)

Also, I thank you for reflecting on the idea of Abraham about limitations :-)
It might be good, or it might be bad, I am not quite sure. Stooby might have a very good point in his opinion too.

But the "mystery teleportation" idea, was not meant as an idea for implementation, rather to show the difficulty or problems in having availiable for unsubbed a mystery in other cities than New York ;-)
Surely, teleportation was not a technology mastered in the 1920's, it's not a technology mastered today either, nearly 100 years later...

Might the thought of Heimlich's request to make the featured mystery availiable to unsubbed players be that it's easier to get someone's attention if you present them with something you have made yourself, so that for Heimlich it would only be interesting to "sell" using his scripted mystery, and for someone else, who had written a scripted mystery, it would be their scripted mystery that would help in the sleuth selling proceess?

If so, (and this is only a thought grabbed from the air, not qualified, might be good, might be bad), would it be possible to get the same result if there was a "personal" account created for each of the scripted mystery, with a password known to the author of that mystery, and a maximum daily case limit of 1 or 2, and a character that would about have the skills needed to solve the mystery, residing in the "correct" city. And, if they wanted to do a selling process using their scripted mystery, they could lead them to that account and let them play while guiding them...?
I guess next step in the process would be guiding them through own character setup, playing the tutorial case, and some of the daily 4 cases for unsubscribed ones, encouraging them to subscribe, because Sleuth IS fun! :-)


Abraham
Abraham

Jan-23-2008 14:24

Honestly, I was not offended about what Huglover said. I didn't even realize that I could possibly be offended about it :-)
Anyway, I am thankful to all of you for supporting me. I am happy when we discuss the ideas and weighs pros and cons. As Huglover, I too have experienced that in order to be able to present those ideas that are really good and important, we must be willing to present the 90% other ideas too, that are not good at all ;-)
Therefore I am very thankful that you pick up the ideas, reflect about them, give more facets to the ideas, in a polite way present possible or obvious weaknesses with the ideas, or other thoughts or ideas that some idea triggered. Some times even the most stupid ideas can trigger the really good ones ;-) We never know.

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