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Pirates- Can a Change be made?
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Aunt Pittypat
Aunt Pittypat
Well-Connected

Mar-14-2008 07:54

I would like to see a limit on the number of times the Pirates can attack you in a day. I was attacked 3 times going from Shangai to London. So now I am stuck in Shangai and I am unable to play a game that I am paying for. I subscribed to play 12 cases a day. Doesn't really seem fair that I don't get to play ANY.

I think pirates should attack once a day. OR put something in place so that not ALL of your cases are taken. Yes, I know about Hostage Negotiation but for new players trying to get other skills this is really bad.

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miss snopes
miss snopes
Demon of the Due Date

Mar-15-2008 10:19

Not sure if anyone else has found this to be the case (or it could possibly always be the case, i have no idea) but it was almost like the pirates decided to target our agency altogether. Within a 3 or 4 day period there were 4 or 5 of us (Pitty and myself being two of those) that were pirated 2 or 3 times back to back and a few other agents targeted once each. It seemed to happen while we were on a good TH streak. Any thoughts?

Breitkat
Breitkat
Pinball Amateur

Mar-15-2008 11:36

A few answers to some (not all) of your questions, Miss:

1. No, cases are NOT involved once you actually make it to the pyramid itself. If you've made it to Shangri-la and experienced that, the pyramid is very similar.

2. The factions are not involved with looking for shoes. Yes, favors are associated with shoes in a roundabout sort of way, but saying more would be considered a spoiler, so that's all you'll get on the public boards. Sorry.

3. Again, we're venturing on spoiler territory here. I will tell you that the faction you pick will ask you to do certain things, kind of like the regular factions you find in all the other cities. It takes a while to please the Shangri-la guys, though.

4. No. Trap detection will work in any cave. Both Shangri-la and Cairo have them at the moment.

5. Errrrrn. This one's a bit of a dicey question. It all depends on what you've been doing and not doing recently. If you've had to pay off a false recently, for example, you're understandably not going to be very flush in the pockets. If your Agency expects you to contribute regularly to their safe/expenses, your bank account may be a great deal lower than others.

Personally, I get nervous when my more-experienced people walk around with less than $100k in their accounts. Again, that's PURELY me, and that's a minimum. For me, an experienced agent really begins with about 500k exp.

Hope all that helps. ;-)

Breitkat
Breitkat
Pinball Amateur

Mar-15-2008 11:47

And yes, I've had my group hit my a mass-pirating streak too, on more than one occasion. Some were villain hunting, some were treasure hunting, some were simply looking for contacts. Was it pure bad luck, some quirk of the system, or Ben just having a bad day and deciding to target little old Us?? At the time, I swore on a stack it was the third, each time (thank you SO much for those presents, Ben. ;-). In reality, it was prob'ly either a system quirk or simply the fact that nine people were simply doing a HUGE amount of traveling in a short period of time, and our time came up. (Still, Ben, I would so appreciate it. P'haps a few less than six agents next time, please?? It'd do my poor stressed-out heart so much good....;-)

BadAss
BadAss
Charioteer

Mar-15-2008 12:45

Unfortunately the shoes (dashing collection!) do bring your skills out of balance just like a lot of items you get from the Prince. Before I was wearing them Black Dress shoes and my chances of success for surveillance on clammed up suspects were higher. I know I can swap them while in my hometown but it's a bit of a nuissance. Especially when server speed is slow.

The thing with hostage negotiation is that it will always be a handy thing. Once you got the shoes the need for trap detection is pretty much over. If you're in an agency with someone who has trap detection I'm sure things can be worked out to get shoes in a less aggrevating manner for all your team mates who opted to side with the Tea Steepers.

This being said I was never really bothered that much with pirates but I'm sure those days are bound to come around.

Diane Russell
Diane Russell
Well-Connected

Mar-15-2008 13:40

"I was never really bothered that much with pirates"

That's because you're a Bad Ass! ;)

Vampiric Smile
Vampiric Smile
Safety Officer

Mar-15-2008 23:15

After the contribution of Ms Diane Russell to our discussion, I would like to offer some help for miss snopes.

Dear Miss snopes in the City Hall, you will find a link for Sleuth Community Sites.
There you will find links to some excellent Agency sites. I wish not to recomment any (some are really great!) but there you can find answers to all your current (or even future!) questions. You just have to dig a bit !

Enjoy!



Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Mar-16-2008 03:57

Look kids. If we're going to get subtle comments through some people's posts, meant to make other people bite, then some people might as well give up posting now.

Grow up. Play the game. lol ok that sounds silly, grow up and play a game. Sheesh, but you know what I mean!

Cordelia Falco
Cordelia Falco
Battered Shoe

Mar-16-2008 06:02

Seconded! Please lighten up a little, people.

Diane Russell
Diane Russell
Well-Connected

Mar-16-2008 08:56

Secret Squirrel:

To whom are you addressing? Please clarify.

Aunt Pittypat
Aunt Pittypat
Well-Connected

Mar-16-2008 09:50

LOL, I'm not able to see any secret messages. Fill me in on whats going on, please!

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