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May-12-2008 23:02

Are the tough skills of any use to a charming detective? I have all the smart & charming skills plus research & lockpicking. There are some other faction skills I am still working toward but am curious if after that it would be useful to get the tough skills?

May-12-2008 23:55

Once you have all the smarts and charm then it's really all about doing something with those skill points.

May-13-2008 00:32

Once you're done with the smart and charming stuff, yes, it's time to go after the tough stuff. There will be times when the tough skills come out higher than the charming ones do, even when you have a high negative value (ie, -4 or more tough) on your uniform, and you'll want to use them. It won't happen that often, but it will come up, especially for suspects/townies of your own gender.

May-13-2008 00:32

It makes no difference if you are tough or charming all skills work the same, the type of detective you are only makes a difference to how much the skills cost you

May-13-2008 08:18

Stress detection is then the only one you should care

May-13-2008 10:41

You can see we have a variety of opinions here. I'm still with the useful side, but truth be told, you truly only need one side, charming or tough, to be really effective as a detective. The other is gravy. Helpful gravy, but gravy. ;-)

May-13-2008 17:40

see now stress detection is the skill I almost got last. It's just well, I never use it. I've gotten to a point where I just tend to bludgeon my way through suspects only using charm. It would do me no good anyway, my stats are -tough. I suppose that if you were a detective that was using mixed stats eg part charm / part tough you would use it. But I'm not necessarily sure that's a great path to follow.

May-13-2008 18:16

Hey thats a good point Squirrel. I have both tough and charm skills, and even then I don't use stress detection. I had it with my old detective, and found it very useless to me.

May-13-2008 18:34

Are y'all talking about Judge of Character? I use Stress Detection all the time - it is after all automatic. At first I thought it was useful, but now that I've tweaked my strategy I honestly think my completion rate would really drop off without it.

Judge of Character, however, meh...

May-13-2008 21:27

Thanx for all the input! I have Judge of character and I really don't use it much anymore since charm is always higher for me. Is there anything else to do with skill points after I get the other faction skills I want?

May-13-2008 23:57

Deluzion - have you been to Cairo yet? (hint hint)