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Nov-22-2004 14:13

My suspects and other people keep clamming on me. I am able to do hard level randoms but am having trouble doing the featured mysteries. Am I needing more skills? Help!

Nov-22-2004 15:00

More skills are always good. Don't mean to sound catty, but you might want to upgrade your wardrobe too. ;-)

Nov-22-2004 15:03

If you are playing charming, you need to max both sweet-talk and rule bending skills AND get as much charm into your gear as possible. For example, your coat is a tough item, which does not help at all if you are trying to use sweettalking. There is a fairly cheap +charm coat in the Detective shop, or save any charm gear you win.
Smart gear doesn't really start helping til you have advanced smart skills like Footprint or Advanced hair. If you are still at basic smarts level, trade your smart gear for charm gear. It will help more early on.

Nov-23-2004 00:39

Plus those featured mysteries are way harder than their "level" makes them sound. I did better on them after I had been solving ridiculouses a while. And even then, I felt less certain about my accusations. It still felt kind of like guessing, although I did succeed.