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Jun-14-2009 13:30

Everyone has suggestions for new things they would like to see in Sleuth. Well, this is a thread for those ideas. Just post a one or two line synopsis of your concept(s), with a small additional informational blurb if two lines is not enough to capture it. Discussions regarding specific ideas will take place in a separate thread, to keep this one running smoothly. Please do not include complaints, critiques, or other discussion on this thread, for purposes of flow. Anything that is not specifically done for the purpose of outlining an idea will be deleted.

All ideas will be considered; even if no discussion thread for them is immediately started, don't lose heart. Ready, get set, post!

Oct-4-2009 01:37

Fritz, the contacts are already identified at the bottomof the page, like this:

"I wanted to talk to Thomas Lee, the Fortune Teller.
Thomas was an important contact of mine and was always helpful in my investigations. "

Or did you mean different? Please explain further, new ideas are always nice. ^^

Oct-5-2009 15:47

Has anyone mentioned this before? I would suggest to have Crime Labs in apartments.

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Oct-6-2009 10:02

I think that what Valentina means is that she would like have the items we collect on favours and VHs stored directly to our apartment instead of the agency locker room.

This has been suggested before, Valentina, and on this thread too ;-)

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Oct-11-2009 02:54

There are members of the community willing to join into a marketing team. I suggest that Ben authorizes a marketing team, gives them both the right of doing marketing, as well as guidelines he wants the team to follow.

At the same time, I suggest that the members of the marketing team will be listed on the Game summary page, and that they will get a special title, and may be even a special feature connected to their avatar. What about a border in a special color? Purple?

Oct-12-2009 14:23

Can there be an option for agencies to open another branch for the same agency in the same or other city?
Criticism: That would make villain hunts too easy.
Solution: For opening another branch, you need to pay the rent for that other office as well as the headquarters. Moreover, a person can shift from the headquarters to the branch and vice versa but this option can be made unable for those hunting a villain.
Facilities: The headquarters can help or get help from the branches. I don't know how! But maybe by sending funds or something like that.
There might be some other faults in this suggestion and I won't mind if it gets rejected.

Oct-12-2009 16:00

I don't think this has been mentioned before, but I apologize if it has. It would be nice to have the suspects crossed out after you check them against a PE, like it does in Shades. It could either be in the case file somewhere or when you go to that PE townie, either they could be marked out or just not available. I'll admit it, sometimes I space out and forget who I just checked. *blushes*

Oct-15-2009 03:20

Yousef, your idea has been batted around before. Biggest reason why it's never been used, far as I know, is the risk of people abusing agencies for hunting purposes in general. If you wanted to modify your idea to have the secondary agency ineligible for ANY kind of hunting, it might go over better. (I.E.--The secondary agency would be used as a training agency for new agents, etc., that need help from more experienced ones in a local city.)

The one thing I'm not entirely sure what you'd do to get around is the current 48-hour limit on Agency switching (for those who don't know, you cannot enter the same agency more than once anytime within a 48-hour period). Any thoughts on that one??

Elizabeth, currently, there are several 'helpers' out there that can assist you if you have problems keeping track of what's been tracked where. (I do NOT recommend using any of them until you have a basic understanding of how to solve a case, but they are out there.) And, as the old timers can tell you, before there were the helpers, there were (and are) paper and pencil. Those can help you keep track of your progress.

The reason why I mention this is, unlike Shades, the servers for Noir are much smaller and cannot handle a great deal of extra stuff. Some would also argue that your suggestion would take away from the complexity of solving a case (not me, but they're out there ;-). So I'm not sure how well your idea will go over. Sorry.

Just a thought or two. ;-)

Breit