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Feb-26-2008 15:57

I just got my first contact at 650 experience, does that mean I should not expect another for a very, very, very long time? 100,000 exp?

Feb-27-2008 00:19

So did I, gained the NY and the Shanghai ones too, but London proved to be very very tricky and I feel that one will make me wait forever.

So yep, contacts if and when they want, not when you feel you done enough to convince them. Theyll just make you sweat abit more :-)

Feb-27-2008 21:06

It's really weird... It took me forever to get a PE contact in London, and finally I got the tailor. Then I went to NY and it took a long time to get another PE contact - the tailor again.

Then I went to Shanghai and got the silk merchant on the first favor!

Is there some kind of conspiracy with thread here??? I hate sewing, by the way... ;)

Feb-28-2008 03:36

diane, that happened to me too... 3 thread contacts, but then my run was broken in london. and there i was thinking why i had chosen the advanced thread analysis as my very first advanced smarts skill!!

Feb-28-2008 04:20

I think maybe it's good to be patient and picky, and not just jump at the first favour you get. I passed up heaps of favours, until I got the ones I wanted for specific townsfolk. You only have to visit Greylings bio page to see how long she waited for the Stage Manager...

http://noir.playsleuth.com/detective/detective.spy?id=2943

Some agencies might actually 'want' you to get a specific contact. Especially if the Agency has 4 Bankers in New York and no Tailor.

After my first city when I learnt what was going on a bit I realised it was to my advantage (albeit a minor one) to have contacts of the same sex as my (charming) detective. Especially PE contacts. As they were harder to question than opposite sex townsfolk, who I could make the most of my Flirting skill on.