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Aug-11-2008 07:08

I have reached a point with my detective where I am unable to tackle more difficult mysteries with his or my own skills.

Given this, is there a way for me to delete or restart my detective?

tips on what kind of skills to go for would be good as well, thx -_-

Aug-11-2008 07:31

If you haven't already, make sure you have ALL of those skills that allow you to find physical evidence. Missing a piece of evidence can easily make a case unsolvable. Once you have those work on improving your interrogation/intimidation skills. Pick up research when you're comfortable talking to townies/suspects without them clamming up. Stay away from the charm skills for now. Don't worry about the factions either.

You might have to work lower difficulty cases until you get a few more skills, but at 15,000 or so experience, your detective is still very much viable. Keep at it!

Aug-11-2008 07:45

The better would be to just continue working on the difficulty level you do manage, and gather more skill points, so that you may buy yourself the needed skills... ;-)

Aug-11-2008 14:57

Make sure you do all your favors too. Getting a contact for physical evidence will make a huge difference for you. And you can get some useful gear from doing favors too. Hang in there :)

Sep-12-2008 11:05

but what happens when you are no longer receiving skill points for doing those cases. I have the ability to do stupedously hard cases, but I can only guarentee I can solve really really hard cases. When I play really really hard cases though, I only get a skill point every so often...its really hard to buy new skills if you cant acquire skill points.

any thoughts?

Sep-12-2008 13:16

Skill points are still being given, it just takes more XP before another one comes along. You used to get one every time you solved a case. Now, it may be you recieve one after every two or three cases solved, or even more than that, but they are still coming. You never stop recieving skill points. You have to keep solving cases and you'll get more skill points.

Sep-12-2008 23:58

To echo what Lady Zeugirdor said, as you gain experience, it takes more XP before you gain another skill point. So if you can do the harder cases, great cos you'll gain skill points more quickly... but if you can't, then you'll have to drop down to a level you are more comfortable with and do more cases. I think you'll find that all the experienced detectives here started off that way.